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Janet Golden, “A State of Health: New Jersey's Medical Heritage.”, Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 3, December 2001, Pages 1036–1038, https://doi.org/10.2307/2700403
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Traveling exhibition. May 1999, Alexander Library, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.; June–Sept. 1999, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and UMDNJ–Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, N.J.; Oct. 1999– Jan. 2000, UMDNJ–University Hospital & New Jersey Medical School, Newark, N.J.; Jan.–April 2000, Burlington County Historical Society, Burlington, N.J.; May 2000, First Annual New Jersey Physicians Conference, Atlantic City, N.J.; May–July 2000, Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, N.J.; Sept.–Dec. 2000, Biomedical Library of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.; Jan.–Feb. 2001, Merck & Co., Whitehouse, N.J. & Rahway, N.J.; March–April 2001, UMDNJ–Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Camden, N.J.; May–June 2001, Johnson & Johnson Consumer Products Co., Skillman, N.J.; Nov.–Dec. 2001, Bergen Regional Medical Center, Paramus, N.J. (tentative). 24 15-sq.-ft. panels. Karen Reeds, exhibition curator; David L. Cowin, honorary curator; Lou Storey, exhibition designer.
Internet: dates, locations, downloadable brochure <http://www.umdnj.edu/librweb/speccoll/exhibits.html> (Sept. 25, 2001).
The small traveling lobby exhibit is meant to be glimpsed in passing and is often intended for a special audience—those working in the building where it is displayed and those invited to the opening of the exhibition. In the case of “A State of Health,” the intended audience includes pharmaceutical company workers; medical school faculty, staff, and students; hospital employees and visitors; university students and staff; and the security personnel found in all of these institutions. I took it as a good sign, then, that when I visited this exhibit at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in Camden, two guards were looking with interest at the panels.
