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Thomas Söderqvist, Ph.D.
Thursday, March 31
Thomas Söderqvist, Ph.D.,
Professor of history of medicine and
Director of the Medical Museion
University of Copenhagen
The Rise of Biomedicine and
the End of the Modern Medical Museum
from 6:00 to 7:00 pm in the Herrick Room, Allen Memorial Medical Library
Please RSVP via phone by March 25, 216-368-6391 or email: jme3@po.cwru.edu
Following Professor Söderqvist 's lecture, please join us for a reception in the Powell Room on the 2 nd floor of the Allen Library.
Thomas Söderqvist is professor of history of medicine at the University of Copenhagen and director of the Medical Museion [sic!] there. After earning his Ph.D. at the University of Gothenburg on the history of ecology in Sweden (The Ecologists, 1986), he has worked on the history of immunology, especially the biography of the leading theoretical immunologist Niels Jerne (Science as Autobiography: The Troubled Life of Niels Jerne, Yale University Press, 2003), and he is presently working on a book on the history and poetics of the genre of scientific biography. Professor Söderqvist’s other major field of interest is the historiography of recent science and medicine (e.g., The Historiography of Contemporary Science and Technology, ed., 1997), and he is now heading a research project at the University of Copenhagen to reconstruct its medical history museum by integrating the historiography and museology of recent biomedicine.
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