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Victoria A. Harden
Victoria A. Harden
Born	Victoria Angela Harden
Occupation	Medical historian
Academic background
Education	Emory University (BA); University of Florida (MA); Emory University (PhD)
Thesis	Toward a National Institute of Health: The Development of Federal Biomedical Research Policy, 1900-1930 (1983)
Doctoral advisor	James Harvey Young
Academic work
Discipline	History of U.S. biomedical research
Institutions	National Institutes of Health
Website	victoriaharden.com

Victoria Angela Harden is an American medical historian who was the founding director of the Office of NIH History and the Stetten Museum at the National Institutes of Health. Most known for organizing conferences and publishing works on the history of HIV/AIDS, Harden also authored books on the history of the NIH and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. She is a past president of the Society for History in the Federal Government.

Education

Harden completed a B.A. in American history at Emory University in 1966. She finished a M.A. at University of Florida in 1968.^[1] Harden earned a Ph.D. in American history at Emory University in 1983.^[2] Her doctoral advisor was James Harvey Young.^[1] She conducted much of her dissertation research as a fellow at the National Museum of American History. During a post-doctoral year at the Institute for the History of Medicine of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, she was supported by a grant from the United States National Library of Medicine and completed work on Inventing the NIH: Federal Biomedical Research Policy, 1887-1937 (1986).^[2]

Career

From 1984-1986 Harden was on the staff of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), researching and writing Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever: History of a Twentieth-Century Disease (1990). It won the 1991 Henry Adams prize of the Society for History in the Federal Government for the best book published in 1990 about the history of the federal government. In 1989 and 1993 Harden organized conferences on the history of AIDS. The proceedings were published as AIDS and the Historian (1991) and AIDS and the Public Debate: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (1995). In June 2001, she launched a website commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the first publication about AIDS: In Their Own Words: NIH Researchers Recall the Early Years of AIDS.^[2] During the 1986-87 observance of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) centennial, Harden oversaw the creation and development of the Stetten Museum at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Office of NIH History. She served as its director until her retirement in 2006. Harden continues to serve the office as a special volunteer.^[2]

Harden has served on the executive councils of the American Historical Association and the American Association for the History of Medicine. In 1993-94, she served as president of the Washington Society for the History of Medicine and in 1998-99 as president of the Society for History in the Federal Government. In 2006, she was awarded the Herbert Feis prize for outstanding contributions to public history by the American Historical Association, and in 2007 the Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Association for the History of Medicine.^[2]

In 2012, Harden published AIDS at 30: A History, an overview of the epidemic emphasizing the response of the medical community—physicians and nurses, public health officials, and biomedical researchers—to AIDS.^[2]^[3]

Selected works

Books

Harden, Victoria Angela (1986). Inventing the NIH: Federal Biomedical Research Policy, 1887-1937. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-3071-6.^[4]
Harden, Victoria A. (1990). Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever: History of a Twentieth-century Disease. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-3905-4.^[5]
Harden, Victoria A. (2012). AIDS at 30: A History. Potomac Books. ISBN 978-1-61234-516-1.^[3]

Edited volumes

Harden, Victoria Angela; Risse, Guenter B., eds. (1991). AIDS and the Historian: Proceedings of a Conference at the National Institutes of Health, 20-21 March 1989. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health.
Hannaway, Caroline; Harden, Victoria A.; Parascandola, John, eds. (1995). AIDS and the Public Debate: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Amsterdam; Washington, DC; Tokyo: IOS Press; Ohmsha. ISBN 978-90-5199-190-1. OCLC 32964619.^[6]
Farreras, Ingrid G.; Hannaway, Caroline; Harden, Victoria Angela, eds. (2004). Mind, Brain, Body, and Behavior: Foundations of Neuroscience and Behavioral Research at the National Institutes of Health. IOS Press. ISBN 978-1-58603-471-9.^[7]

Journal articles

D'Souza, M. Patricia; Harden, Victoria (December 1996). "Chemokines and HIV–1 Second Receptors". Nature Medicine. 2 (12): 1293–1300. doi:10.1038/nm1296-1293. ISSN 1546-170X. PMID 8946819. S2CID 34538821.
Harden, Victoria A. (1992). "Koch's Postulates and the Etiology of AIDS: An Historical Perspective". History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences. 14 (2): 245–65. PMID 1342726.
Harden, Victoria A. (Winter 1985). "Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever Research and the Development of the Insect Vector Theory, 1900-1930". Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 59 (4): 449–466. PMID 3912018.

References

^ ^a ^b Harden, Victoria Angela (1984). Toward a National Institute of Health: The Development of Federal Biomedical Research Policy, 1900-1930 (Ph.D. thesis). Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International. OCLC 427990650.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Victoria A. Harden". Office of NIH History. Retrieved 2020-12-23. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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Reviews of AIDS at 30:
- Boyle, Eric W. (May 2013). "Review". The Public Historian. 35 (2): 111–113. doi:10.1525/tph.2013.35.2.111. ISSN 0272-3433.
- Nelson, K. E. (December 2014). "Review". American Journal of Epidemiology. 180 (12): 1213–1214. doi:10.1093/aje/kwu336. ISSN 0002-9262.
- Adler, R. (October 2012). "Review". Choice Reviews. 50 (2): 314. eISSN 1523-8253. ISSN 0009-4978.
- Royles, Dan (December 2014). "Review". Isis. 105 (4): 867–868. doi:10.1086/680300. ISSN 0021-1753.
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Reviews of Inventing the NIH:
- Kohler, Robert E. (1987). "Review". Isis. 78 (2): 263–264. doi:10.1086/354409. ISSN 0021-1753. JSTOR 231541.
- Park, Rosemary (1987). "Review". Change. 19 (6): 62. doi:10.1080/00091383.1987.10570171. ISSN 0009-1383. JSTOR 40177638.
- Duffy, John (1987). "Review". The American Historical Review. 92 (3): 755. doi:10.2307/1870076. ISSN 0002-8762. JSTOR 1870076.
- White, Suzanne (1989). "NIH Origins". Pharmacy in History. 31 (4): 187–188. ISSN 0031-7047. JSTOR 41111261.
- Grob, Gerald N. (1987). "New Wine in New Bottles: The History of Health Policy". Reviews in American History. 15 (3): 365–373. doi:10.2307/2702030. ISSN 0048-7511. JSTOR 2702030.
- HC (1987). "Review". American Studies. 28 (2): 63. ISSN 0026-3079. JSTOR 40642224.
- Fox, Daniel M. (1987). "Review". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 42 (1): 125–126. doi:10.1093/jhmas/42.1.125. ISSN 0022-5045. JSTOR 24632868.
- Pauly, Philip J. (1987). "Review". Journal of the History of Biology. 20 (3): 423–424. ISSN 0022-5010. JSTOR 4331026.
- Viseltear, Arthur J. (1987). "Review". Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 61 (2): 289–291. ISSN 0007-5140. JSTOR 44444117.
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Reviews of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever:
- Johnson, Judith R. (1991). "Review". Environmental History Review. 15 (1): 93–94. doi:10.2307/3984676. ISSN 1053-4180. JSTOR 3984676.
- Lerner, Barron H. (1994). "Review". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 49 (1): 138–140. doi:10.1093/jhmas/49.1.138. ISSN 0022-5045. JSTOR 24623319.
- Farley, John (1992). "Review". Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 66 (2): 331–332. ISSN 0007-5140. JSTOR 44451466.
- Rogers, Naomi (1992). "Review". Isis. 83 (2): 358–359. doi:10.1086/356181. ISSN 0021-1753. JSTOR 234575.
- Howell, Joel D. (1991). "Review". The Journal of American History. 78 (2): 702–703. doi:10.2307/2079629. ISSN 0021-8723. JSTOR 2079629.
- Etheridge, Elizabeth W. (1992). "Review". The Western Historical Quarterly. 23 (1): 118–119. doi:10.2307/970289. ISSN 0043-3810. JSTOR 970289.
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Reviews of AIDS and the Public Debate:
- Erlen, Jonathon (1996). "Review". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 51 (4): 517–519. doi:10.1093/jhmas/51.4.517. ISSN 0022-5045. JSTOR 24624435.
- Fee, Elizabeth (1996). "Review". Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 70 (4): 743–744. ISSN 0007-5140. JSTOR 44444761.
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Review of Mind, Brain, and Behavior:
- Rowland, Lewis P. (2006). "Review". Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 80 (2): 396–398. ISSN 0007-5140. JSTOR 44448421.