Wednesday, October 24,2007
Edward Shorter, MD; Max Fink, MD; Lee Wachtel, MD; Ann Bauer, journalist
Alfred Freedman, MD, moderator
The History of Convulsive Therapy from Depression to Autism: Past Uses, Future Possibilities
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Jeremy Hugh Baron, DM, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Medicine in Wartime, Part I: The Anglo-American Biomedical Antecedents of Nazi Crimes
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Alan Kraut, PhD, American University
The John K. Lattimer Lecture
'Mirrors of the Culture': Jewish Hospitals in the History of American Health Care
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
The Friends of the Rare Book Room Lecture
Will Noel, PhD,The Walters Art Museum
The Strange Case of the Archimedes Codex
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Bertrand Taithe, PhD, University of Manchester
Medicine in Wartime, Part II: The Giant Hospital: Besieged Paris in the Modern War Era, 1870-1871
Past Lectures, 2006-2007
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Mathilde Krim, M.D.
Ronald Bayer, Ph.D., Columbia University
HIV AIDS: The First Quarter-Century
Thursday, October 12, 2006
The John K. Lattimer Lecture
David S. Barnes, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle against Filth and Germs
Wednesday, November 8, 2006
John P. Swann, PhD, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
100 Years and More of Misbranding, Adulteration, and Drug Regulation in America
Wednesday, December 6, 2006
Barron H. Lerner,MD, PhD, Columbia University
When Illness Goes Public: Celebrity Patients and How We Look at Medicine
Thursday, January 25, 2007
The Lilianna Sauter Lecture
Harriet Washington, Independent Scholar
American Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Chris Feudtner, MD, PhD, MPH, University of Pennsylvania
Depicting Decisions: The History of Diabetes and the Daily Work of Care
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
The Friends of the Rare Book Room Lecture
Walton Schalick, MD, PhD, Washington University in St. Louis
School Books, School Days: The Technology of Medical Books in Medieval Paris
Thursday, April 26, 2007
The Iago Galdston Lecture
Susan Lederer, PhD, Yale University
Bombs, Blood, and Bio-Markers: Medical Preparedness in Cold War America
Tuesday, May 22, 2006
Gerald Oppenheimer, PhD, MPH, Columbia University
Shattered Dreams? The Impact of AIDS on the new South Africa
Past Lectures, 2005-2006
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
David T. Mininberg, MD, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
The Art of Medicine in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean
Thursday, October 27, 2005
James P. Allen, PhD, Metropolitan Museum of Art
The World of Ancient Egyptian Medicine
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Michael McVaugh, PhD, University of North Carolina
An Ailment Not to be Treated: The Rationality of Pre-Modern Surgery
Wednesday, December 7, 2005
Monica Green, PhD, Arizona State University
Gynecology and Surgery: Allilances of Knowledge and Practice in the Premodern Period
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
David Oshinsky, University of Texas
Polio: A Look Back at the 20th Century's Most Feared Disease
Thursday, February 23, 2006
The John K. Lattimer Lecture
James H. Jones, PhD
The Decision to Put David into "the Bubble:" Treatment or Research?
Thursday, March 23, 2006
The Iago Galdston Lecture
Janet Golden, Rutgers University
The Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
The Friends of the Rare Book Room Lecture
Roger Gaskell
Recreating the Harveian Library of the London College of Physicians
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
The Lilianna Sauter Lecture
Amy Fairchild and Ron Bayer, Columbia University
The Searching Eyes of Government: Public Health Surveillance in Twentieth-Century America
Past Lectures, 2004-2005
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
Humanities Month
Julia Boyd
Doctress: Elizabeth Blackwell, MD and her Place in the History of Medicine
Co-sponsored by the New York Council for the Humanities
Monday, October 25, 2004
Paul E.M. Fine, VMD, PhD, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
From Pumphandle to Polio Eradication
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Sarah Tracy, PhD, University of Oklahoma
2003-04 Paul Klemperer Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine
Old Wine in New Bottles?: Theories of Alcoholism and its Treatment in America, 1870 to 2004
Thursday, November 11, 2004
Bryan Waterman, New York University
2004-2005 Audrey and William H. Helfand Fellow in Medical Humanities
Narrative, Knowledge, and the National Health: Writing about Yellow Fever in Late Eighteenth-Century New York City
Thursday, November 18, 2004
John Barry, Tulane University
The Great Influenza of 1918
Wednesday, December 15, 2004
Jeremy Greene, Harvard University
The Fall and Rise of a Risk Factor: Cholesterol and the Statins, 1950-2000
Tuesday, January 18, 2005
The Friends of the Rare Book Room Lecture
Michael Bliss, University of Toronto
Harvey Cushing, his Boswells, and his Harem: Immortalizing an American Surgeon
Thursday, February 10, 2005
Samuel Roberts, Columbia University
Mediating Infection and Politics: Ideas of Hereditary Predisposition and Poverty in the Early U.S. Anti-Tuberculosis Movement
Thursday, March 17, 2005
The Iago Galdston Lecture
Judy Wu, Ohio State University
Modernizing Chinatown: Race, Reproduction, and Medical Tourism
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Paul Sutter, University of Georgia
Pulling the Teeth of the Tropics: Disease, Race, and Nature during the American Construction of the Panama Canal
Thursday, April 21, 2005
The John K. Lattimer Lecture
Howard Markel, University of Michigan
When Germs Travel: Epidemics and Immigrants in the 20th Century
This event was sponsored in part by the New York Council for the Humanities.
Monday, May 23, 2005
The Lilianna Sauter Lecture
Susan Wolf, University of Minnesota Law School
Governing Reproductive Medicine and Reprogenetics: A Daunting Challenge
Past Lectures, 2003-2004 Series
Tuesday, October 14, 2003
The Iago Galdston Lecture
Bert Hansen, PhD, Baruch College
Medical History for the Masses: Heroes of Medicine in Children's Comic Books of the 1940s
Tuesday, November 11, 2003
The John K. Lattimer Lecture
John Harley Warner, PhD, Yale University
Aesthetics, Identity, and the Grounding of Modern Medicine
Wednesday, December 10, 2003
Elizabeth Norman, PhD, New York University
We Band of Angels: The Story of American Nurses Captured in the Philippine Islands During World War II
Wednesday, January 21, 2004
James C. Whorton, PhD, University of Washington School of Medicine
From Cultism to CAM: Alternative Medicine in the Twentieth Century
SPECIAL THREE-LECTURE SERIES ON PSYCHIATRY IN AMERICA
Wednesday, February 18, 2004:
The Lilianna Sauter Lecture
Jonathan Sadowsky, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University
Electroconvulsive Therapy and the Concept of Progress in Medical History
Wednesday, March 17, 2004:
Jonathan Metzl, M.D., Ph.D., University of Michigan
Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs
Wednesday, April 7, 2004:
Andrea Tone, Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology
They Used to Call it 'Just Nerves': Pills, Science, and Profit in Modern Medicine
Wednesday, May 12, 2004:
The Friends of the Rare Book Room Lecture
Katherine Park, Ph.D., Harvard University
The Empire of Anatomy: Rethinking Vesalius' Titlepage
Past Lectures, 2002-2003 Series
Wednesday, October 9, 2002
Matthew Ramsey, PhD, Vanderbilt University
Remedy Vendors and the Printed Word in 18th- and 19th-Century France
Wednesday, November 13, 2002
Ellen S. More, PhD, University of Texas
Dr. Mary Steichen Calderone and the Personal Politics of Sexuality
Tuesday, December 10, 2002
Alice D. Dreger, PhD, Michigan State University
Measuring Phalluses, Gendering Babies, and Speaking to the Dead: What History Tells Us about Handling Intersex Today
Wednesday, January 29, 2003
Amy Fairchild, PhD, Columbia University
Science at the Borders: Immigrant Medical Inspection and the Shaping of the Modern Industrial Labor Force
Wednesday, February 19, 2003
The Iago Galdston Lecture
Randall M. Packard, PhD, Johns Hopkins University
What Kind of a Problem is Malaria? The Past and Future of Malaria Control
Thursday, March 13, 2003
The John K. Lattimer Lecture
John Efron, PhD, University of California—Berkeley
Medicine, Modernity, and the German Jews
Wednesday, April 9, 2003
The Friends of the Rare Book Room Lecture
James Tait Goodrich, MD, PhD, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein School of Medicine
Andreas Vesalius (1519-1564): A Medical Academic's Evolving Viewpoint on Vesalius' Contributions to Art and Anatomy
Tuesday, May 6, 2003
The Lilianna Sauter Lecture
Paul Lombardo, PhD, JD, University of Virginia
Better for all the World: Eugenics, the Supreme Court and Buck v. Bell
Past Lectures, 2001-2002 Series
Thursday, October 11, 2001
Humanities Month Lecture
M. Susan Lindee, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
The Yanomami-Measles Controversy: A Participant-Observer's Account
Wednesday, November 14, 2001
Karen Buhler-Wilkerson, RN, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
No Place Like Home: A History of Nursing and Home Care in the United States
Tuesday, December 11, 2001
Margaret Humphreys, MD, PhD, Duke University
Whose Body? Which Disease? Studying Malaria while Treating Neurosyphilis
Wednesday, January 9, 2002
M. Donald Blaufox, MD, PhD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
An Ear to the Chest: The Evolution of the Stethoscope
Tuesday, February 12, 2002
The Iago Galdston Lecture
James Mohr, PhD, University of Oregon
The Burning of Honolulu's Chinatown: Plague, Fire, Bacteriology, and Public Health Policy at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
Wednesday, March 13, 2002
The John K. Lattimer Lecture
Steven Feierman, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Traditional Medicine in Africa: Colonial Transformations
Tuesday, April 8, 2002
The Friends of the Rare Book Room Lecture
Philip K. Wilson, PhD, Pennsylvania State University Medical School, Hershey
Reading the Body: Medical and Surgical Perspectives of the Skin in the 18th Century
Wednesday, May 8, 2002
The Lilianna Sauter Lecture
Robert Proctor, PhD, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
Was there such a thing as "good Nazi science"? German struggles against cancer, 1933-45
