Join the Oklahoma Territorial Museum and Carnegie Library on Wednesday, June 10, from 7 to 8 p.m. for a lecture on the history of Territorial medicine with Ben Folger, a Ph.D. student at the University of Oklahoma. Folger will be presenting his research on medical frontiers in Oklahoma, their relation to the history of tribal medicine, and the professionalism of medicine. The lecture will cost $5 per person.
Folger is a first-year Ph.D. student at OU studying the history of medicine in the American West. He graduated from OU in 2022, earning his master’s degree with his thesis entitled, “‘A great mass of incompetent men’: Contested medical frontiers in Oklahoma, 1880-1940,” which examined trends in the professionalization of medicine in Oklahoma. Ben looks to continue exploring the relationship between Colonial-era violence and histories of medicine in the American West in his doctoral work.
The Oklahoma Territorial Museum is located at 406 E. Oklahoma Ave. in Guthrie. For more information, please call 405-282-1889.
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