Jeremy Greene: Images and Texts in Medical History: NIH Keynote Lecture

Location: Natcher Conference Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

Please note, only the Keynote Lecture is open to the public.

Keynote Lecture:
Jeremy Greene, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine and the History of Medicine; Elizabeth Treide and A. McGehee Harvey Chair in the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

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Images and Texts in Medical History: A Workshop in Methods, Tools, and Data from the Digital Humanities will take place on the campus of the National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda, Maryland, on April 11-13, 2016. The workshop is designed to provide practice, hands-on instruction on using new tools, methods, and data from the digital humanities to advance understanding of medical history. The intended audience will include history faculty and advanced graduate students in the history of medicine, librarians and archivists in the history of the health sciences, and digital humanities scholars and students interested in new fields for experimentation and development. The workshop will feature a keynote address by Dr. Jeremy Greene of Johns Hopkins University, instructional sessions led by Miriam Posner of the University of California at Los Angeles and Benjamin Schmidt of Northeastern University, and roundtable sessions led by librarians and scholars working at the intersection of digital humanities and medical history. The workshop is generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities and Wellcome Trust. The host for the workshop will be the History of Medicine Division at the U. S. National Library of Medicine, on the NIH campus.