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.

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

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Please feel free to contact us about scheduling a tour. Please note that tours are only available during Center business hours, Monday through Friday, 10:00am-4:00pm.