[PNRNews] NLM Announces: NLM History of Medicine Symposium

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CALL FOR PAPERS:
Global Health Histories
National Library of Medicine
November 2005

The History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine, on 
the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, 
announces a call for papers for a symposium, scheduled for November 2-4, 
2005. The theme for the 2005 symposium is Global Health Histories.

Academics, public health administrators, independent scholars, health care 
activists, and artists are encouraged to submit ideas for papers, panels, 
workshops, and multimedia presentations on topics that address any aspect 
of history of medicine and health care from a global perspective.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:
-Sociological and anthropological approaches to global health histories
-International health agencies: policies and politics
-Corporations and foreign health markets
-Alternative medicine in both Western and non-Western contexts
-Disability and health in global perspective
-The role of global media and information technology in health care
-Demography and cartography in making health policy
-Health care, war, and terrorism before and after 9/11
-Reproductive and maternal health care in transnational perspective

Send CVs and abstracts of 500 words to globalhealthsymposium at nlm.nih.gov 
no later than April 30, 2005. Prospective participants will be notified by 
May 20, 2005. For further information as well as questions regarding the 
symposium, please contact symposium co-organizers David Serlin 
(dserlin at ucsd.edu) or Paul Theerman (paul_theerman at nlm.nih.gov). Some 
funds for travel and accommodation may be available for symposium 
participants.

All sessions will be held at the Lister Hill Auditorium at the National 
Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland, a component of the National 
Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.


Elizabeth Fee, Ph.D.
Chief, History of Medicine Division
National Library of Medicine
National Institutes of Health
8600 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD 20894
301-496-5406

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