Events for September 23, 2009

September 23, 2009

Fellows Reception

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Time: 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Place: Jacobs Reading Room, Chemical Heritage Foundation, 315 Chestnut Street

RSVP by September 18

In a continued effort to build collaborative events that highlight the unique consortium that is the Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science (PACHS), we wish to jointly extend an invitation to you to join us at the Chemical Heritage Foundation for a Fellows Reception on 23 September.

The reception serves to welcome all 2009 - 2010 academic year fellows of PACHS and its member institutions. The opportunity will also afford the fellows a brief opportunity to describe their research focus. Collectively, we believe PACHS-member fellows reinforce Philadelphia as a major center for the study of history of science, medicine, and technology and we encourage you to meet these remarkable individuals and learn more about the great variety of topics that they are studying.

Guided tours of CHF’s Museum will be conducted for interested guests.

September 23, 2009

Bonnie Brice Dorwart, M.D., Lankenau Hospital and The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Adventures of a Medical Historian:  Researching “Death is in the Breeze: Disease in the American Civil War” at the Historical Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia

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Time:  6:30 p.m.
Place: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Book signing and reception follow the program.
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Dr. Dorwart’s book, Death is in the Breeze: Disease in the American Civil War, was written entirely from primary sources in the Historical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Holdings of the College—including lectures heard by Dr. Dorwart’s great-grandfather, a member of the Class of 1851 of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine—provide a unique window into the education of the physicians responsible for the care of soldiers during that war. The book was published in 2009 by the National Museum of Civil War Medicine Press in Frederick, Maryland.

Dr. Dorwart practiced rheumatology at The Lankenau Hospital for 27 years. After retiring in 2001 to research and write a book, she volunteered as an attending physician and mentor in Lankenau’s Clinical Care Center twice weekly for five years. Still a volunteer, she serves as Archivist of The Lankenau Hospital, as it celebrates its sesquicentennial anniversary, and as Historian of the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Conference Center for Medical Education at Lankenau.