New Oral History Project of Women of Color in Medicine Now Available

The Medical Center Archives is happy to announce that a new collection and finding aid are available online for Another Perspective: An Oral History Project of Women of Color in Medicine. Pauline Flaum-Dunoyer, MD, a student at Weill Cornell Medicine from 2018 to 2023, conducted this oral history project. Flaum-Dunoyer attended a lecture on the history of medicine in 2019 and noticed that the contributions of women and people of color were underrepresented or missing.

Health & Medical Book Club: The Song of the Cell by Siddhartha Mukherkee

Please join us for a group discussion of the book, The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee. Reading all or part of the book is encouraged. Those unfamiliar with the book, but interested in the book's topic, are also welcome to attend. The author of the book will NOT be present.

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The Heberden Society presents Johanna Schoen, PhD

Glasnost and Perestroika in the NICU: Clinical Care and Parent Activism in the History of Neonatal Intensive Care

Please join the Heberden Society on Tuesday, February 11, 2025 at 5 PM EST for "Glasnost and Perestroika in the NICU: Clinical Care and Parent Activism in the History of Neonatal Intensive Care." Johanna Schoen, PhD investigates the history of parent activism as parents, in the early 1980s, began to lobby for more humane NICU care. Dr.