Linker to speak at NMHM
Afternoon Coffee Talk at the National Museum of Health and Medicine
Title: "Limb Labs: Getting Amputee Soldiers Back to Work After World War I"
Speakers: Beth Linker, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History, University
of Pennsylvania and Jeffrey Reznick, Ph.D., Honorary Research Fellow in
the Center for First World War Studies at the University of Birmingham
and Director of the Institute for the Study of Occupational Health, AOTF
What: Join a discussion about early efforts to standardize and construct
affordable prosthetic arms and legs for amputee soldiers by orthopedic
surgeons in America and England during World War I.
When: Thursday, July 24, 2:00-3:30 p.m.
Where: Russell Auditorium (AFIP, Bldg. 54)
http://www.nmhm.washingtondc.museum/about/directions.html
Cost: Free!
