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Featured Event
Friday, December 15, 2023 - 11:00amCurating Bodies: The Changing Responsibilities of Museums
What should contemporary museums do with the skulls, skeletons, bodies and body parts in their collections and exhibits? Join us for a discussion with The Matson Museum of Anthropology at the Pennsylvania State University, The Mütter Museum at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, and the Wellcome Collection in London.
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Forum
Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools
Christopher Willoughby charts the rise of racist theories in U.S. medical schools, examining the extensive legacies of slavery in modern medicine.
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News and Notes
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Upcoming Events
Rebecca Gruskin
Capitalism's Nature: A Global History of Mining, Empire, and Resistance in TunisiaUniversity of Pennsylvania
Christopher Heaney
Healing Incas: Peruvian Surgery and the Recovery of Scientific AncestorsCollege of Physicians of Philadelphia
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Tamara Venit-Shelton,
“White Plague, Yellow Peril: Tuberculosis and Environmental Health in San Francisco Chinatown”Cedars Sinai Program in the History of Medicine
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American Institute of Physics
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American Philosophical Society
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California Institute of Technology
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Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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College of Physicians of Philadelphia
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Columbia University
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Drexel University
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Duke University
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Hagley Museum and Library
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Harvard University
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History of Science Society
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Huntington Library
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Johns Hopkins University
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Library Company of Philadelphia
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Library of Congress
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Linda Hall Library
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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National Library of Medicine
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New York Academy of Medicine
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Newberry Library
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Princeton University
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Rockefeller Archive Center
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Science History Institute
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Smithsonian Institution
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United States Naval Observatory
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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University of Kansas
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University of Maryland-College Park
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University of Oklahoma
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University of Pennsylvania
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University of Sydney
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University of Toronto
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University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Wagner Free Institute of Science
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Wellcome Collection
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Yale University