Chidiebere Ibe, Lisa McAllister, Michael Winship
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
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About this event
Philadelphia-based publishing company J. B. Lippincott developed a global audience in the late 1800s for literary and medical publishing. Nearly 200 years later, the Lippincott imprint continues to publish medical texts, reference books, and journals evolving its publishing services for digital and cloud-based information solutions as part of Wolters Kluwer. The J.B. Lippincott records from 1833-1988 are archived at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and provide a portal to understanding the development of this industry in America. The collection includes letterpress books and scrapbooks of incoming and outgoing correspondence documenting the business operations between the Philadelphia office and its London agents between 1875 and 1936. It also contains the original watercolors of medical illustrations done the Faber family of artists (father Hermann and sons Erwin F. and Ludwig E.) and artist Louis P. Schmidt for Lippincott’s medical publications of the early 20th century.
Our speakers will share an understanding of the importance of the firm 150 years ago in establishing American publishing interests; they will also discuss medical publishing today, with a conversation about the importance of diverse representation in medical illustrations.
Speakers' Bio:
Chidiebere Ibe, B.Sc., is a medical student and a Nigerian professional medical illustrator among the few in Africa. He is the Creative Director at the Association of Future African Neurosurgeons (AFAN), Young Continental Association of African Neurosurgical Societies (YCAANS), and Creative Director and Chief Medical Illustrator of the Journal of Global Neurosurgery. He is also a medical illustrator at International Centre for Genetic Diseases-Harvard Medical School. Chidiebere Ibe is passionate about contemporary illustrations of Black patients and has been acclaimed globally for creating a Black fetus illustration that went viral on social media in 2021. He hopes to pursue a career in pediatric neurosurgery.
Lisa McAllister, Vice-President, Professional Publishing with the Health Learning, Research & Practice business at Wolters Kluwer, currently leads content teams for Medical Education and Practice, Wolters Kluwer Spanish Language program, and AudioDigest Continuing Medical Education. Lisa and her team guide the content development strategy for educational as well as cutting-edge clinical and referential content in both print and digital platforms. Lisa holds a B.S. in English and Technical Writing from The Pennsylvania State University. Prior to joining Wolters Kluwer (what was then J.B. Lippincott), she spent five years with the W. B. Saunders Company (now Elsevier).
Michael Winship, professor emeritus of University of Texas at Austin, is a bibliographer and historian of the book, with special expertise in publishing and book trade history in the United States before 1940, who has published extensively on American literary publishing. He edited and completed the final three volumes of Bibliography of American Literature, for which he received the bibliography prize of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers and served as an editor of and contributor to the five-volume A History of the Book in America.
Funding:
Processing and conservation of the J.B. Lippincott Company records were made possible through the generous support of the National Archives’ National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, and Wolters Kluwer.