The Wistar Institute Authors Series
The Wistar Institute regularly hosts talks by authors of general-interest books on science and medicine. These events are free and open to the public. The program is part of the Institute's public outreach efforts, which aim to introduce the Institute and its research mission to a wider audience.
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2010 Authors Series |
 Rebecca Skloot
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
February 16, 2010
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2009
Authors Series |
 Jon Franklin
The Wolf in the Parlor:
The Eternal Connection between Humans and Dogs
October 20, 2009 |
2008
Authors Series |
 Faye Flam
The Score:
How the Quest for Sex
Has Shaped the Modern Man
September 16, 2008 |
 Gary Taubes
Good Calories, Bad Calories
Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease
May 13, 2008 |
2007
Authors Series |
 Paul A. Offit, MD
Vaccinated:
One Man’s Quest to Defeat
the World’s Deadliest Diseases
September 18, 2007 |
 Arthur Allen
VACCINE:
The Controversial Story of Medicine’s
Greatest Lifesaver
May 22, 2007 |
2006
Authors Series |
 David
Quammen
The Reluctant
Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of
Charles Darwin and the Making of His
Theory of Evolution
September 18, 2006 |
 Nicholas
Wade
Before
the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History
of Our Ancestors
May 23, 2006 |
 Joyce
E. Chaplin
The
First Scientific American: Benjamin
Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius
April 24, 2006 |
2005
Authors Series |
 Philip
J. Hilts
Rx
for Survival: Why We Must Rise to
the Global Health Challenge
November 17, 2005 |
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 Paul
Offit, MD
The
Cutter Incident: How America’s First
Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine
Crisis
October 20, 2005 |
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 Brian
Burrell
Postcards
from the Brain Museum: The Improbable
Search for Meaning in the Matter
of Famous Minds
March 24, 2005
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 Jeffrey
Kluger
Splendid
Solution
February 23, 2005
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2004
Authors Series |
 Maryn
Mckenna
Beating
Back the Devil
November
4, 2004 |
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 Stephen
S. Hall
Merchants
of Immortality: Chasing the Dream
of Human Life Extension
May 4, 2004 |
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 John
M. Barry
The Great Influenza:
The Epic Story of the Deadliest
Plague in History
Feb.
19, 2004
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