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American Association for the History of Nursing. The AAHN has presented its 1999 Lavinia L. Dock Award to Elizabeth M. Norman for her book We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of Amerian Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese. Research awards have also been presented to Janet Colaizzi, who will study psychiatric nursing in Virginia, and MaryAnn Krisman-Scott, a doctoral student at the University of Pennsyvlania, who received the Student Research Award for her work on the care of the dying. For further information, contact the AAHN, P.O. Box 175, Lanoka Harbor, NJ 08734 (tel.: 609-693-7250; fax: 609-693-1037; website: http://www.aahn.org).

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. ACOG/Ortho-McNeil Fellowships in the History of American Obstetrics and Gynecology for the year 2000 have been awarded to Elizabeth Siegel Watkins, whose research project is entitled “Medicine, Menopause, and Aging: A Social and Cultural History of Hormone Therapy for Women,” and Nancy R. Aries, who will be researching the topic, “The Dynamics of Abortion Policy Formulation within ACOG, 1951–1973.” These awards carry stipends of $5,000 each, to be used to defray expenses while spending a month in the ACOG historical collection—and other medical/historical collections in the Washington, D.C., area—while continuing research into some area of American obstetric-gynecologic history. Deadline for applications for the year 2001 award: 1 September 2000. For further information, contact: Susan Rishworth, History Librarian/Archivist, The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, 409 Twelfth Street SW, Washington, DC 20024 (tel.: 202-863-2578; fax: 202-484-1595; e-mail: srishworth@acog.org).

Center for Hospital and Healthcare Administration History. The Center announces the acquisition of a collection of more than 2,500 hospital postcards, depicting hospital facilities across the United States since 1902. For further information, contact Jeanette Harlow, Center for Hospital and Healthcare Administration History, American Hospital Association, One North Franklin, Chicago, IL 60606 (tel.: 312-422-2013; e-mail: jharlow1@aha.org; website: http://www.aga.org/resource).

Cheiron. The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences will hold its thirtieth annual meeting 22–25 June 2000 at the University of Southern Maine, Gorham Campus. For further information, contact: Betty Bayer, Cheiron Program Chair, Department of Psychology, 210 Demarest Hall, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY 14456-3397 (tel.: 315-781-3460; fax: 315-781-3348; e-mail: bayer@hws.edu).

International Programme in Bioethics Education and Research. The Programme presents a course entitled “Ethics and Palliative Care,” which will take place 6–8 April 2000 in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. For further information, contact: Dr. B. Gordijn, University of Nijmegen, Dept. 232, Ethics, Philosophy and History of Medicine, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands (tel.: 0031-24-3615320; fax: 0031-24-3540254; e-mail: b.gordijn@efg.kun.nl; website: http://www.azn.nl/scientist/departments/departments.html, and choose “Ethics, Philosophy and History of Medicine” from the list of non-clinical departments).

Johns Hopkins University. The Department of the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology presented the following colloquia in its Fall 1999 series: 23 September, Joshua Levens, “William James’s Theory of Emotion and the Transformation of American Psychology”; 30 September, Stuart McCook, “‘Giving Plants a Civil Status’: Scientific Representations of Nature in Tropical Latin America”; 7 October, Jen-Paul Gaudillière, “Of Mice, Men and Women: Modelling Practices in American Biomedical Research after 1945”; 13 October, Michael Bliss, “We All Worshipped Him: Osler, Medical Students and Women at Johns Hopkins” (Noguchi Lecture); 14 October, Michael Bliss, “What’s a Doctor? How William Osler Practiced Medicine” (Noguchi Lecture); 21 October, Nina Lerman, “Children of Progress: Technical Education in Industrializing Philadelphia”; 28 October, Guido Giglioni, “Some Medical, Philosophical and Terminological Implications in Early Modern Theories of Living Matter”; 3 November, Richard Burian, “On the Origins of French Genetics: An Attempt to Resolve a Paradox” (co-sponsored by the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science); 11 November, Scott Knowles and Stuart Leslie, “‘Industrial Versailles’: Eero Saarinen’s Corporate Laboratories”; 18 November, Paul Josephson, “Big Technology and Resources on the Periphery...