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Hopkins Institute marks 50th anniversary with history conference
Johns Hopkins Institute of the History of Medicine hosts a two day conference on Oct 17 and 18 in the Tilghman Room Turner Building Baltimore featuring 29 historians from six countries. Topics include Health Medicine and Mortality in the Sixteenth Century Medicine as Social History and Changing Ideas on Doctors and Patents in the Age of Shakespeare. The institute houses 50000 medical history books and memorabilia including Nightingale's wheelchair Jenner’s vaccine hair and a diagnostic doll from Imperial China.
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