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Dr. Susanne Klausen

Carleton Historian Susanne Klausen's Thalidomide Research in the News

The Victoria times Colonist recently featured a story on Canadian scientist and thalidomide research pioneer Frances Kelsey for which Carleton…

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Active History blog by doctoral student, Christine Chisholm, "Thinking about Thalidomide in Transnational History: Canada and South Africa"

What was the global impact of thalidomide? On September 24th, the Department of History, the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies/Disability Studies,…

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"Thinking about Thalidomide in Transnational Perspective," September 24, 2014

The Department of History will host "Thinking about Thalidomide in Transnational Perspective" on Wednesday, September 24, 2014. The one-day conference focuses…

R. J. Brodie, 1845, Full length engraving representing the effects of Lues Venere

September 18: The Infection of Impurity: Contaminated/Contaminating Victorian Male Bodies

Public lecture by Lesley Hall, senior archivist at the Wellcome Library for the History of Medicine and a highly regarded…

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