Archive for October, 2007
Disability and Diversity
My buddy Penny Richards from Disability Studies gave my name to the folks at Disability Services at University of Colorado, Boulder, as a possible speaker for a Diversity Summit in February. Their interest in including disability as diversity category grew out of an incident at UCB earlier this year, involving a food service worker [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Book Club: Loving Frank
This month’s book club selection was Loving Frank by Nancy Horan. The book is a fictionalized version of Frank Lloyd Wright’s relationship with Mamah Borthwick. [if you don't know the story, don't go to the Wikipedia entry -- it spoiled some of the book for me] I was unfamiliar with this story despite [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )New Blog Name
Hi folks(or rather the handful of family/friends who read this thing!),
I’ve decided that since this blog is about more than medical history (and very few of my posts are about medical history), to make a name change that more fully reflects the posts on this site. It’s also a take on the conservative history/current events [...]
More on the Book
Here’s the link from University of Michigan Press catalog. Pre-order your copies today!
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The Book Cover
Just received news that my book is now off the printer and will be out within the next 5-6 weeks. Meanwhile, here’s the book cover.
I thought it came out really well — certainly is eye-catching. Hopefully this one will sell!
Things have been extremely frantic around the U the past month and a half, [...]
