The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library at the University of Virginia Health System will continue its 2000-2001 History of the Health Sciences lecture series on Wednesday, November 29, from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. Dr. Ann G. Carmichael, associate professor of history at Indiana University, will present the lecture American Railway Surgery, in the Wilhelm Moll Rare Book and Medical History room, on the ground floor of the Library. Carmichael will address the obstacles met by railroad surgeons to legitimize American railway surgery as a credible form of medical practice. She will talk about how railroad surgeons came to be a thriving professional group, only to disappear by the 1920s. Carmichael serves on the Welch Medal Committee for the American Association for the History of Medicine . She is currently writing a book entitled Causes of Death in Sforza Milan .
All lectures are free and open to the public.
The History of the Health Sciences lecture series is sponsored each year by the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library and the University of Virginia School of Medicine Continuing Medical Education Program as an educational service for the University of Virginia Health System and interested citizens in the community.