Presentations and Events, 2009/2010
Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 5:30 -- 6:30
Kathleen M. Stokker, PhD
Director of Scandinavian Studies, Luther College
Norwegian Folk Medicine on the American Prairie
Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 5:30 -- 6:30
Matthew T. Schaefer
Archivist, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library
Iowa Doctors and the Germ Theory of Disease
Wednesday, December 9, 2009, 5:30 -- 6:30
Paula Michaels, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Iowa
Comrades in the Labor Room: The International Story of the Lamaze Method, 1950-80
Tuesday, January 19, 2010; 5:30 -- 6:30
Patrick T. O’Shaughnessy, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, University of Iowa
Malaria and DDT: the History of a Controversial Association
Tuesday, February 23, 2010; 5:30 -- 6:30
Douglas C. Baynton, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Iowa
Defectives in the Land: Disability and American Immigration Policy, 1882-1924
Thursday, March 25, 2010; 4:30 -- 7:30
John Martin Rare Book Room – Open House
Friday, April 30, 2010
University of Iowa History of Medicine Society R. Palmer Howard Dinner
Jack El-Hai
Free-lance author and teacher
The Rise and Fall of Lobotomy