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the College of Physicians of Philadelphia (1990-1992). Her research interest
in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French medicine is longstanding,
and she co-edited with Ann La Berge the volume, Constructing Paris
Medicine (1998). Her research in twentieth-century American medicine
has included analyzing, with Victoria Harden, the National Institutes
of Health response to AIDS and the development of cochlear implants.
She has co-edited with Victoria Harden and John Parascandola, AIDS
and the Public Debate: Historical and Contemporary Issues (1995).Victoria A. Harden, Ph.D., is Director of the Office of NIH History and
the Stetten Museum, a post she has held since the office was created in- In 1992, she oversaw the establishment of the DeWitt Stetten,
Jr., Fellowship in the History of Biomedical Sciences and Technology,
designed to bring scholars in the humanities and social sciences to the
NIH to study aspects of its history. Dr. Harden is the author of Invent
ing the NIH: Federal Biomedical Research Policy, 1887-1937 and Rocky
Mountain Spotted Fever: History of a Twentieth-Century Disease. She is
the editor, with Harriet R. Greenwald, of NIAID Intramural Contribu
tions, 1887-1987; with Guenter Risse, of AIDS and the Historian; and
with Caroline Hannaway and John Parascandola, of AIDS and the Pub
lic Debate: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives.
Melvin L. Kohn, Ph.D., did research in the NIMH’s Laboratory of Socio-
Environmental Studies from 1952 to 1985, serving as Chief of that
Laboratory from 1960 until he left the NIMH to become Professor of
Sociology at the Johns Hopkins University. His research is in the field
of social structure and personality. His work is cross-national, compar
ing the United States to Poland and Japan. He has published several
books and numerous journal articles, including many in languages other
than English. He is a past President of the American Sociological Asso
ciation and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His
international work has included serving as a member of the Scientific
Advisory Board of the Max-Planck Institute für Bildungsforschung in
Berlin, the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Commission on the Humanities and Social
Services of the American Academy of Learned Societies, and the Soviet
Academy of Sciences.