Prof. Haber to give Inaugural Lecture

Carole Haber, Richards Professor of History

3:58 p.m., March 17, 2005--Carole Haber, history department chairperson, will deliver her Inaugural Lecture as Richards Professor of History at 4 p.m., Tuesday, March 22, in 101 Brown Laboratory. Her topic is “From Goat Glands to HGH: The Continual Search for the Fountain of Youth.” The lecture is free and open to the public.

Her research involves changing medical and cultural beliefs about Alzheimer’s disease and senile dementia. She also is interested in the medicalization of death in America as it moved from the home into the hospital during the period of 1860-1930.

She has published extensively in her field and is the author of Beyond 65: The Dilemma of Old Age in America’s Past and coauthor of Old Age and the Search for Security and Key Words in Sociocultural Gerontology.

Among her honors, she was named an “Outstanding Young Woman of America,” a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and associate fellow of the Institute on Aging at the University of Pennsylvania. She was selected by Profiles in Gerontology as one of 300 past and present scholars who have shaped the field.

Haber joined the UD faculty in 1998 from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. A graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, she received her master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Pennsylvania.

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