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Yale professor to discuss traveling exhibit hosted by Special Collections
By Gabriel Miller
Library Communications
Posted 8/27/2004
MADISON, Wis. -- Susan Lederer, associate professor of history of medicine at Yale University and curator of the exhibit Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature, will speak about Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein and the contents of the traveling exhibit at 4 p.m. on September 15 in 126 Memorial Library. The exhibit is currently on display in UW-Madison Libraries' Special Collections in 976 Memorial Library.
Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature features six sections dealing with the literary, scientific, and political context in which the novel was created; ethical questions the novel raises; interpretations and distortions of the story in various media since the novel's publication; and the contrasts between science as conducted in the novel and as pursued in the twenty-first century. The exhibit was developed by the National Library of Medicine and the American Library Association and made possible by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Library of Medicine.
Susan E. Lederer's book Flesh and Blood: Organ Transplantation and Blood Transfusion in Twentieth-Century America is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. She is also the author of Subjected to Science: Human Experimentation in America before the Second World War (1999) and Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature (2002). Her lecture is sponsored by the History of Medicine Department and the Friends of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries.
