‘Blood in the Scientific Revolution’ topic of Dec. 5 Dean’s Lecture

Posted on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011 — 12:08 PM

Holly Tucker (Joe Howell/Vanderbilt)

Holly Tucker, an associate professor at Vanderbilt’s Center for Medicine, Health and Society and associate professor of French, will discuss “Blood in the Scientific Revolution: Science, Society and the First Transfusions” at noon Monday, Dec. 5, in 208 Light Hall.

Tucker is the author of Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution and Pregnant Fictions: Childbirth and the Fairy Tale in Early-Modern France.

The talk is part of the Vanderbilt School of Medicine Dean’s Lecture Series.

Lunch will be provided with an online R.S.V.P. by noon Friday, Dec. 2.

Contact: Sarah Woodall
sarah.c.woodall@vanderbilt.edu