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Friday,
January 9, 2004
9:30–11:30
a.m.
OFF-SITE
SESSION
Armed Forces
Interactions with American Science and Technology: From the Revolution
to the Twenty-first Century
31. Life Sciences and the Armed Forces
National Museum of American History, Carmichael Auditorium
13th and Constitution N.W., on the National Mall
| Chair: |
Barton C. Hacker, National Museum
of American History |
| Papers: |
Smallpox
in Washington’s Army: The Development of Inoculation
as a Military Medical Procedure
Ann M. Becker, State University
of New York at Stony Brook
The Role of the Army and Navy in
American Zoological Research, 1803–60
Keir B. Sterling, Combined Arms Support Command
“
A More Successful Defensive Warfare”: The U.S. Army and
the Fight against Yellow Fever in Cuba, 1900–02
Mariola
Espinosa, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dr. Albert
B. Sabin, the U.S. Army, and the Conquest of Epidemic Disease
John
M. Morra, Independent Scholar
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| Comment: |
The
Audience |
| Directions: Take
Metro Red Line from Woodley Park Station to Metro Center (4
stops). Go to lower platform and take
Blue or Orange Line (toward Addison Road or New Carrollton) one
stop to Federal Triangle. Exit station. At top of escalator,
turn 180 degrees and walk to 12th Street. Turn right on 12th
and walk half a block to Constitution. You will see the National
Museum of American History across the street to your right. Cross
Constitution, turn right, and walk one-half block to entrance.
Carmichael Auditorium is immediately to your left after you pass
through visitor screening. The guard can direct you. |
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