Seminars and Events at DAHSM

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Berkeley/UCSF History of Science, Technology and Medicine Colloquium (2007/8 schedule)

UCSF/Berkeley Medical Anthropology Colloquium
(2007/8 schedule)

Chauncey Leake Public Lecture
May 8, 2008 at 12:00 pm Flyer
(UCSF Parnassus Campus - Millberry Union Golden Gate Room)
“Making the Case for Genetic Screening: Doing Bioethics with Historian's Tools”

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
January 24th, 2008: 12:00 pm-1:00pm
UCSF Mount Zion Hospital, Herbst Hall Auditorium
1600 Divisadero Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco

The Estrogen Elixir: A History of Hormone Replacement Therapy in America

 Presenter: Elizabeth Siegel Watkins, PhD
Associate Professor, Vice Chair and Director of Graduate Studies History of Health Sciences Program, Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine at UCSF

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
February 4, 2008 - Parnassus, S-180 - 12:00 - 1:30 PM Flyer
Psychopharmacology in the Age of Anxiety: A History of America's Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers

Speaker: Andrea Tone, Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Social History of Medicine (McGill University)

Commentator: Samuel Barondes, MD (UCSF)