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Bust of Dr. Philip Syng (1703-1789) by William Rush (1756-1833).
Collection of the Library Company of Philadelphia

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February 8, 2010

Cori Hayden, University of California-Berkeley

Same but Different:  Generic Medicines and the Politics of Pharmaceutical Equivalence

Department of History and Sociology of Science and Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania

February 9, 2010

James R. Voelkel, Chemical Heritage Foundation

The Digital Edition of Isaac Newton’s Alchemical Papers:  Challenges and Promises

Chemical Heritage Foundation

February 10, 2010

Merlin Chowkwanyun, Graduate Student, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania

Radical Health Activism from the War on Poverty Era to the Age of Austerity (1961-1975)

Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania

February 10, 2010

Kara Clevinger, Temple University

‘Keeping a Comfortable House’:  Moral Treatment for the Insane in the 1840s

The McNeil Center for Early American Studies, Brownbag Seminar Series

February 12, 2010

Terry M. Christensen, PACHS Visiting Fellow

Twin Sons of Different Mothers: John Wheeler, Edward Teller, and the Cold War Quest for Peace through Military Hegemony, 1948–1983*

Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science, Regional Colloquium

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