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| The Departments, Programs, and Centers listed below are variously interested in or foster an interest in the history of medicine in times past as well as its role in contemporary life. Through research and teaching, public lectures and symposia, they explore facets of medical history.
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| Name: | Brain Research Institute
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| Description: | The Brain Research Institute began at UCLA more than 40 years ago, under the leadership of Horace “Tid” Magoun, John French and Donald Lindsley. These founding neuroscientists created an organization that not only produced important research but also served as a magnet for outstanding faculty and graduate students. The BRI is also a supporter of the Neuroscience History Archives..
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| Name: | Center for Primary Research and Training, Department of Special Collections in the Charles E. Young Research Library
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| Description: | The Department of Special Collections in the Charles E. Young Research Library has created the Center for Primary Research and Training to integrate the Department more fully into the teaching and research mission of the university. The center will provide a substantive educational experience for graduate students by training them in archival methods and will simultaneously make accessible lesser-known collections through the creation of finding aids, or guides..
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| Name: | Chicano Studies Research Center
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| Description: | Chicano Studies Research Center serves the entire campus and supports faculty and students in the social sciences, life sciences, humanities, and the professional schools. Its research addresses the growing Chicano and Latino population.
Asian American Studies.
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| Name: | Department of History: Graduate Program in the History of Science
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| Description: | The History of Science Program at UCLA offers graduate students the opportunity to work with some of the leading scholars in the history of science, medicine, and technology. Here at UCLA we pursue cultural, gender, historical, literary, political, and social approaches to these studies. Through our affiliation with the UCLA Center for the Cultural Studies of Science, Technology, and Medicine, graduate students have the opportunity to work with faculty from other departments, including anthropology, English, philosophy, psychology, and sociology..
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| Name: | Department of History: Undergraduate Program in the History of Science and Medicine
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| Description: | The history of science and medicine is a discipline which, although rooted methodologically and often institutionally in departments of history, takes as its subject matter a body of ideas, practices, and persons concerned with our knowledge of the physical and biological universe. It reaches out to link up with physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology, and medicine by using tools of historical analysis to explore the growth, development significance, and impact of these sciences in the Euro-American world, and beyond that into the cultures within which systems of natural knowledge have developed, or into which western science has spread. The minor at UCLA aims to make available to bright undergraduates, many of whom are likely to be majoring in the sciences, a fill and rigorous program of analysis of science and medicine in their historical dimensions. Such an historical and cultural embedding of a scientific discipline, whether in the biological or physical sciences, can contribute to students’ understanding of their undergraduate major field, of themselves as practitioners of science or medicine, of the role of science and medicine in culture—and perhaps even foster greater productivity, creativity, and a sense of mature responsibility and satisfaction in a science- based career..
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| Name: | Department of Neurobiology, UCLA School of Medicine
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| Description: | The Department of Neurobiology offers advanced training leading to the Ph.D. degree. Graduates can anticipate an academic career at the college or university level or as a basic science researcher at a research institute or biotechnology company. Additionally, the Department provides support for the study of the history of medicine. This website was underwritten by the Department and the faculty includes those who are devoted to the history of medicine ..
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| Name: | Department of Special Collections, Young Research Library
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| Description: | The Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections houses and provides access to the UCLA Library’s central collection of rare books and manuscripts in the humanities, social sciences, and visual arts, as well as transcripts of interviews conducted by the UCLA Oral History Program.
The Department's rare book holdings consist of some 333,000 volumes, while its non-book holdings comprise more than 30 million manuscripts, 5 million photographs and negatives, ephemera, maps, works of art, architectural drawings and models, and other graphic arts material..
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| Name: | History & Special Collections, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library
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| Description: | The various collections of the History & Special Collections Division support the study of the history of medicine and biology. Collections consist of books, journals, manuscript, prints, portraits, and medical artifacts. For further assistance in locating manuscripts, prints, portraits, or other artifacts, please inquire in the division..
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| Name: | Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program is
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| Description: | The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program is an interdisciplinary program that supports teaching and research on the historical and contemporary experience of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgendered people. The program sponsors courses, offers an undergraduate minor, organizes lecture series, facilitates the study of minority sexualities and genders in the broadest interdisciplinary context, and tries to bring together interested students, faculty, and members of the larger Los Angeles community..
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| Name: | Neuroscience History Archives (NHA)
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| Description: | The Neuroscience History Archives (NHA) promotes the advancement and diffusion of knowledge about the history of neuroscience. Through the identification, collection, and preservation of primary source material of twentieth century American neuroscience, the NHA seeks to create a documentary heritage for future generations that will represent the ideas, actions, and accomplishments of the discipline's antecedent practitioners..
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| Name: | Oral History of Human Genetics
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| Description: | Established in 2001 by Professor Edward R. B. McCabe, MD at UCLA, the project is an interdisciplinary and multi-institutional collaboration dedicated to the documentation of preservation of the history of human genetics..
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| Name: | UCLA Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies
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| Description: | The Center, a member of the UCLA Humanities Consortium, provides a forum for the discussion of central issues in the field of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century studies. It organizes academic programs, bringing together scholars from the area, the nation, and the world, with the goal of encouraging research in the period from 1600 to 1800.
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| Name: | UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
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| Description: | CMRS is an Organized Research Unit (ORU) of the University of California. Though there are many ORUs throughout the UC system, CMRS is unique: it is the only Center situated in the Humanities with a mandate to encourage comparative study of these crucially important eras in the development of our culture..
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| Name: | UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies
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| Description: | The Center, a member of the UCLA Humanities Consortium, provides a forum for the discussion of central issues in the field of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century studies. It organizes academic programs, bringing together scholars from the area, the nation, and the world, with the goal of encouraging research in the period from 1600 to 1800.
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| Name: | UCLA Center for Society and Genetics
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| Description: | The Center for Society and Genetics seeks to provide direction to this co-evolution of science and humanity by promoting innovative and socially relevant research and education..
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| Name: | UCLA Center for the Study of Women
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| Description: | The Center for the Study of Women (CSW) was officially authorized by the Board of Regents on September 21, 1984. Upon its establishment, the CSW became the first organized research unit in the University of California system to develop and coordinate research on women and gender related issues..
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| Name: | UCLA Department of History
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| Description: | The Department offers a variety of courses focused on the history of science and medicine at the undergraduate and graduate level. These topics are also the research focus of a number of faculty. See People.
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| Name: | UCLA University Archives
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| Description: | The University Archives, established in 1948 by UCLA Provost Clarence Dykstra, is the official repository for non-current University records having permanent historical, legal, fiscal, or administrative value. The University Archives records document the history of administrative and academic units and of UCLA-related organizations, as well as the activities of the campus's faculty, staff, and students. The University Archivist serves as a records consultant for all campus offices..
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| Name: | William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
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| Description: | The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library is part of the UCLA library system. It is a rare books and manuscripts collection, with particular strengths in English literature and history (1641-1800), Oscar Wilde, and fine printing. It is administered by UCLA's Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies.
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