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Seminars and Events at DAHSM (Archive of News and Events Here) Berkeley/UCSF History of Science, Technology and Medicine Colloquium (2007/8 schedule) UCSF/Berkeley Medical Anthropology Colloquium Chauncey Leake Public Lecture Speaker: Ruth Schwartz Cowan, PhD, Chair, History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania Commentator: Elena Gates, MD (UCSF) Mount Zion - UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health The Estrogen Elixir: A History of Hormone Replacement Therapy in America Presenter: Elizabeth Siegel Watkins, PhD In the first complete history of hormone replacement therapy (HRT), Dr. Elizabeth Siegel Watkins, an associate professor in the History of Health Sciences at UCSF, explores the complex and changing relationship between the medical treatment of menopause and cultural conceptions of aging in her new book, “The Estrogen Elixir: A History of Hormone Replacement Therapy in America.” Dr. Watkins will be discussing the role of scientific research – and women as subjects in that research – in the checkered history of estrogen as a medical treatment. Bring a lunch and join us at this free, informative session. RSVP: Bertina Lee, (415) 885-3658 or bertina.lee@ucsfmedctr.org Lecture in the History of Modern Biomedicine Speaker: Andrea Tone, Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Social History of Medicine (McGill University) Commentator: Samuel Barondes, MD (UCSF)
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