[beasiswa] Fellowship in the History of Medicine and Fellowship in the Medical Humanities

Research Fellowships in The Academy Library
For the 2006-2007 Academic Year

The Paul Klemperer Fellowship in the History of Medicine
and
The Audrey and William H. Helfand Fellowship in the Medical Humanities

Klemperer Instructions Helfand Instructions

Each year, The New York Academy of Medicine offers the Paul Klemperer
Fellowship in the History of Medicine and the Audrey and William H.
Helfand Fellowship in the Medical Humanities to support work in
history and the humanities as they relate to health, medicine, and the
biomedical sciences.

The Klemperer Fellowship supports research using the Academy Library's
resources for scholarly study of the history of medicine. It is
intended specifically for a scholar in residence at the Academy
Library. The Helfand Fellowship more broadly supports work in the
humanities, including both creative projects dealing with health and
the medical enterprise, and scholarly research in a humanistic
discipline--other than the history of medicine--as applied to medicine
and health. Although residence is not obligatory, preference will be
given applicants whose projects require use of the resources of the
Academy Library and who plan to spend time at the Academy. If you are
not sure to which fellowship you should apply, see a list of Recent
Fellows.

Each Helfand or Klemperer Fellow receives stipends of up to $5,000 to
support travel, lodging and incidental expenses for a flexible period
between June 1, 2006 and May 31, 2007. Besides completing a research
or creative project, each Fellow will be expected to make a public
presentation at the Academy and submit a final report. We invite
applications from anyone, regardless of citizenship, academic
discipline, or academic status. Preference will be given to (1) those
whose research will take advantage of resources that are uniquely
available at the Academy, and (2) scholars or creative artists in the
early stages of their careers.

Applicants may compete for either the Klemperer or the Helfand
Fellowship, but not both. These fellowships are awarded directly to
the individual applicant and not to the institution where he or she
may normally be employed. None of the fellowship money is to be used
for institutional overhead.

Applications must be received by the Academy by March 1, 2006;
candidates will be informed of the results by May 1, 2006.

Application forms and instructions for the Klemperer and Helfand
Fellowships are available online. Potential applicants for either
fellowship are encouraged to visit the Academy website to further
acquaint themselves with the Academy and its library. When using the
online catalog of the Academy Library, please be aware that entries
for a considerable portion of the collections have not yet been
converted to electronic form.

Requests for application forms (for those unable to access the forms
through the web) or further information should be addressed to:
Office of the Academy Historian
New York Academy of Medicine
1216 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10029
Email: history@nyam.org Telephone: 212-822-7314

The New York Academy Library
The Academy maintains one of the largest medical libraries in the
United States with a collection of more than 700,000 volumes, 275,000
portraits and illustrations and 183,000 pamphlets. The Historical
Collections Department contains 50,000 volumes in the history of
medicine, science and other health-related disciplines. Of these, rare
materials dating from 1700 B.C. to the twentieth century number
approximately 32,000 volumes. Especially well -represented are medical
Americana and classic works in the history of Western European
medicine and public health. Primary source materials include more than
2,000 manuscripts, most notably the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus,
along with photographs and medical artifacts. Secondary sources
include an extensive history of medicine reference collection and 95
current journal subscriptions in the history of the health sciences.
Besides the Academy's own archives, the collection also houses the
archives of many health-related institutions and organizations, which
serve as a primary resource for the history of health administration,
public health, medical education, and medical practice in New York.
The general collections of the Library include one of the world's
largest collections of literature on clinical medicine and related
fields for the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century.

The New York Academy of Medicine is a not-for-profit educational
institution established in 1847 to enhance the health of the public.
With its membership of 2,700 leading practitioners, medical
researchers, administrators, health sciences educators and other
health care professionals, the Academy is a leader in addressing
issues important to health in the United States, especially problems
associated with urban environments. In-house program staff engage in
research and service work in such areas as epidemiology, health
policy, public health, bioethics, school health, history of medicine
and the medical humanities. Staff seminars and other occasions to meet
and discuss work sustain an active intellectual life at the Academy