Changing the Face of Medicine

The Changing the Face of Medicine exhibit honors the lives and achievements of American women in medicine - both past and present.

Visit the exhibit at the Briscoe Library from late October until November 21, 2008 and plan to attend related programs. (The exhibit was expected to open October 8, but Hurricane Ike damaged the exhibit that was scheduled to come here to San Antonio. The replacement exhibit is expected to arrive in late October.)

The complementary local exhibit Changing the Face of Medicine: South Texas Stories, designed by the Briscoe Library, is located near the entrance to the Briscoe Library.

The National Library of Medicine has also created an online component to the exhibit. The online Changing the Face of Medicine exhibit also includes Local Legends.

Calendar of Events

• October 8, 5:30 p.m., 3.104A Lecture Hall
  Opening Event: Keynote lecture, "Women in Medicine: Passion, Challenges and Accomplishments," by Dr. Loretta Finnegan. Reception to follow in the Lecture Hall Commons
• October 14, Noon, Library, Howe Conference Room
  Lunchtime screening of film Secret of Photo 51, about molecular biologist and crystallographer Rosalind Franklin, whose X-ray image Photo 51 led to the insight that identified the double helix
• October 20, Noon to 1:30 p.m., Room 409L
  Women in the Health Professions, a panel discussion and luncheon sponsored by the Women's Faculty Association
• October 29, Noon to 1 p.m., Library, Room 2C
  Hispanic Women in the Health Professions, a panel discussion and light lunch by the Hispanic Faculty Association
• November 3, 5:30 p.m., reception, AAB Foyer 6 p.m., A Lady Alone, HSC Auditorium
  Ewing Halsell Distinguished Lecture: A Lady Alone, a one-woman play about Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, followed by a conversation with author Lynn Eckhert, M.D., and actress Linda Gray Kelly
• November 10, 6:30 p.m., cash bar, Doubletree Hotel 7 p.m., Dinner and Presentation
  Friends of the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library Annual Dinner and Presentation featuring "From Sickness Insurance to 'Sicko'" by Beatrix Hoffman, Ph.D.
  Contact Pennie Borchers at (210) 567-2469 for ticket and RSVP information
• November 12, Noon, Library, Howe Conference Room
  Repeat screening of film Secret of Photo 51 (see October 14)
• November 19, Noon, Library, Howe Conference Room
  Friends of the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library lunchtime brown bag lecture by Charleen Moore, Ph.D. Changing the Face of Medicine in 18th Century Italy: Anna Morandi Manzolini and Her Remarkable Anatomical Waxes
• November 25, Noon, Library, Howe Conference Room
  Brown bag conversation with Drs. Gretchen Berggren and Ruth Berggren