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

Assistant/Associate Professor of the History of Medicine, Department of
Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

 

This position is a joint appointment in the Francis A. Countway Library
of Medicine and the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical
School. An adjunct appointment in the Department of the History of
Science at Harvard University may also be possible.

 

The Countway Library, one of the world's largest medical libraries,
serves the Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health,
Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston Medical Library and the
Massachusetts Medical Society. The Library holds more than 630,000
volumes, subscribes to 3,500 current journal titles and houses over
10,000 non-current biomedical journal titles. The library also houses
one of the world's leading medical history collections, and provides
access to many electronic information resources. It hosts an archives
and records management program for the schools of the Harvard medical
area, and the Warren Anatomical Museum. 

 

This position will have essential responsibility for directing the
Center for the History of Medicine at the Countway Library.  The goal of
the Center for the History of Medicine at the Countway Library is to
promote historical scholarship in the history of the health sciences
through the collection, preservation, and scholarly use of books,
manuscripts, and other historical artifacts of medical science.  The
Center supports Harvard's active medical, undergraduate, and graduate
academic programs in the history of medicine. 

 

Additionally, this position will have research and teaching
responsibilities at Harvard Medical School through the Program in the
History of Medicine in the Department of Social Medicine. The Department
of Social Medicine is an interdisciplinary basic science department of
Harvard Medical School. Its faculty of anthropologists, sociologists,
historians, ethicists, social policy specialists, and clinicians teach
and conduct research about the social, cultural and moral aspects of
illness and health care, with a special emphasis on reducing health
disparities and improving the quality of medical care. The Department
has strong academic programs of research and training in the social
sciences basic to medicine - medical anthropology, the history of
medicine, and medical ethics. The goal of the Social Medicine curriculum
at HMS is to provide students with the intellectual and analytic
resources to recognize and respond to key social, cultural and ethical
dilemmas in contemporary medicine. Faculty members develop basic social
science concepts and conduct research to advance our understanding of
social, cultural and historical dimensions of health, illness, and
medical care.  

 

Candidates are expected to hold an MD or PhD degree in a relevant field
and are expected to have demonstrated teaching and research experience.
The successful candidate will have the ability to conduct significant
independent scientific inquiry, have broad knowledge of the history of
medicine, and have experience in the collection, preservation, and use
of primary published and archival materials in the history of medicine.
Experience in administrative planning, fund-raising, and public
programming is highly desirable.  

 

Letters of interest, curriculum vitae, and the names of three references
should be sent by April 1, 2006 to: [log in to unmask] 

 

Harvard University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
Candidates from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply. 

 


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