Bonnie Brice Dorwart, M.D., Lankenau Hospital and The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Section on Medical History
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Place: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Book signing and reception follow the program.
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Dr. Dorwart's book, Death is in the Breeze: Disease in the American Civil War, was written entirely from primary sources in the Historical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Holdings of the College—including lectures heard by Dr. Dorwart’s great-grandfather, a member of the Class of 1851 of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine—provide a unique window into the education of the physicians responsible for the care of soldiers during that war. The book was published in 2009 by the National Museum of Civil War Medicine Press in Frederick, Maryland.
Dr. Dorwart practiced rheumatology at The Lankenau Hospital for 27 years. After retiring in 2001 to research and write a book, she volunteered as an attending physician and mentor in Lankenau’s Clinical Care Center twice weekly for five years. Still a volunteer, she serves as Archivist of The Lankenau Hospital, as it celebrates its sesquicentennial anniversary, and as Historian of the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Conference Center for Medical Education at Lankenau.