Cheryl Krasnick Warsh
Library of Congress
Wednesday, October 23, 2024 12:00 pm EDT
Online via Zoom
Canadian History / Studies, Health and Health Care, History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Library and Information Science, Women's & Gender History / Studies
In the 1950s, a German company called Chemie Grünenthal claimed discovery of a new wonder drug: a sedative called thalidomide. When the world discovered the drug’s effects – babies who arrived stillborn, with improperly developed organs, or with missing limbs – Americans elevated FDA pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey as a scientific hero, one whose meticulous research had kept the drug from the U.S. market.
Warsh’s recent biography, Frances Oldham Kelsey, the FDA, and the Battle against Thalidomide explores Kelsey’s popular elevation as a “good mother of science” and her lifetime commitment to preventing another thalidomide tragedy. Join Library of Congress staff on Wednesday, October 23, 2024, 12:00 PM EDT for a conversation with Dr. Cheryl Krasnick Warsh to reflect on gender and medicine, the history of pharmaceutical regulation, and Kelsey’s battle against thalidomide six decades on.
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