Walsh Library Gallery

presents

 A State of Health:
New Jersey's Medical Heritage
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 June 10-  August 2, 2002

 Curator: Karen Reeds
Honorary Curator: David L. Cowen
Traveling Exhibition Co-ordinator: Lois Densky-Wolff

"A State of Health" Lecture Series
5:30 p.m.- 7: 30 p.m   Lectures at 6 p.m.
Moderated by Dr. Donald Lombardi,
Director of the Master of Arts program in Corporate and Public  Communications

Wednesday, June 12   "Reflections on Hospital Mergers"
Joseph Ross, President and Chief Executive Officer, Shore Health System, Easton, MD

Thursday, June 20   "Our State of Health Since 9/11/2002"
Kenneth Mizrach, Director of VA New Jersey Health Care System and Dr. Benjamin Natelson, Director, Center for War Related Illnesses, VA New Jersey Health Care System, South Orange, NJ    

Thursday, June 27    "Nursing Home Care in America Today"
Fred S. Sganga, Executive Director, Long Island State Veterans Home, Stony Brook, NY.
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Exhibition and lectures are free and open to the public 

      Between June 10 and August 2, 2002, Walsh Library Gallery at Seton Hall University will present "A State of Health: New Jersey's Medical Heritage,"  a traveling exhibition celebrating more than four centuries of medicine in the state.  The 48-panel exhibition includes more than 150 images of items illustrating New Jersey's rich medical history, including Civil War surgical instruments, patent medicine trade cards, X-rays, medicine bottles and old postcards of New Jersey Hospitals. The show will also include archival material from the inception of the first New Jersey medical school- Seton Hall College of Medicine and Dentistry (1954-1964), located in Jersey City.  Artifacts from one of the earliest pharmacies in the state, Wheatley's Pharmacy in Burlington, will also be featured, along with many 19^th and 20^th century objects on loan from the collection of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Libraries. 

Selected Exhibition Examples:      

The Gallery is open Monday- Friday, 10:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. and by appointment. For more information contact Jo Ann Cotz, Gallery Director at 973-275-2033 or cotzjoan@shu.edu.  Past and current  Gallery exhibits can be viewed at http://library.shu.edu/gallery.

Exhibition sponsored by

Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries, Rutgers University; Friends of the Rutgers University Libraries; Special Collections, University Libraries, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey; New Jersey Historical Society; American Association for the History of Medicine; The Academy of Medicine of New Jersey; Medical History Society of New Jersey; Health Care Institute of New Jersey.

Exhibition generously supported by

Saffron Endowment for the History of Medicine; American Home Products Corporation; C.R. Bard, Inc.; Bristol -Meyers Squibb Company; Hoechst Marion Roussel; Hoffman -LaRoche Inc.;  Merck & Co.; Johnson & Johnson; Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation; Schering-Plough Corporation, Warner- Lambert Company; the University Libraries of UMDNJ; the New Jersey Historical Commission; and the Veterans Biomedical Research Institute.

Lou Story Exhibition Design, Red Bank 

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