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Prescriptions for Peace Exhibit Tour with Heather Mumford

Prescriptions for Peace Exhibit Tour with Heather Mumford In-Person

Join Heather Mumford, Archivist for the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and co-curator of the exhibit Prescriptions for Peace, for a tour highlighting physician anti-nuclear activism from 1961 to1985.

Prescriptions for Peace is the Center for the History of Medicine's most recent exhibit and is now on view on floors L2, L1, and 1 of the Countway Library. It traces the creation of a medical model for anti-nuclear activism from the early 1960s to the internationalization of that model in the early 1980s. It was co-curated by Katie Blanton, a graduating Harvard Medical School student who recently completed a master’s degree in public health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Blanton's undergraduate thesis, “The Doomsday Doctors: Medical Activism in the Nuclear Age, 1960–2000," won Harvard’s Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize for outstanding scholarly research and excellence in the art of teaching.

Interested Harvard ID holders should meet at the red "tour starts here" sign near the at Security Desk at Countway's Huntington Ave. entrance. You do not need to register for the tour.


This tour is intended for Harvard University ID holders.
Not the best time? Harvard students, faculty, and staff are welcome to contact us about scheduling a tour. Please note that tours are only available during Center business hours, Monday through Friday, 10:00-4:00.

Not a Harvard ID holder?
If you are interested in a group tour, but do not have a Harvard ID, please contact us for tour availability.
We recommend interested parties read our Information about why and when we provide tours here before contacting the Center.

Date:
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 Show more dates
Time:
12:30pm - 1:00pm
Time Zone:
Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
Location:
Countway Library
Campus Location:
Harvard Longwood Campus
Categories:
  Events     History of Medicine  

Event Organizer

Heather Mumford
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Emily Gustainis

Deputy Director
Center for the History of Medicine
Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine

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