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Adventures of a Medical Historian: Researching Death is in the Breeze: Disease in the American Civil War in the Historical Library of The College of Physicians, Bonnie Brice Dorwart, MD, FACP.

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM (ET)

Philadelphia, PA

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The 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 this summer by the National Museum of Civil War Medicine Press in Frederick, MD.

 

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 twice weekly in Lankenau’s Clinical Care Center 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.

 

Sponsored by The Section on Medical History.

 

Book signing and reception follow program.

 

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The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
19 South 22nd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM (ET)


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