The Lattimer Lecture was endowed by John Kinsley Lattimer, PhD, in 1986. An internationally known urologist, educator and a collector, he was Chairman Emeritus of the Department of Urology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He attended Columbia University through all of his schooling, published hundreds of papers, and was known for establishing the field of pediatric urology.
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Previous Lecturers
2012-2013
Carla Keirns, MD, PhD
Stony Brook University School of Medicine
Putting Asthma on the Map: Weather, Pollen, Pollution and the Geography of Risk
2011-2012
Ira Rutkow, MD, DrPH
University of Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersey
The Civil War: How Did It Impact Medicine in America?
2010-2011
Jeffrey M. Jentzen, MD, PhD
University of Michigan
Death Investigation in America
2009-2010
Jacalyn Duffin, MD, PhD
Queens University, Ontario
Medical Miracles: Doctors, Saints and Healing in the Modern World
2008-2009
John W. Rowe, MD
Columbia University
Changing Perspectives on Healthy Aging, Part II: The Development of the Concept of Successful Aging
2007-2008
Alan Kraut, PhD
American University
'Mirrors of the Culture': Jewish Hospitals in the History of American Health Care
2006-2007
David S. Barnes, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle against Filth and Germs
2005-2006
James H. Jones, PhD
The Decision to Put David into "the Bubble:" Treatment or Research?
2004-2005
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.
2003-2004
John Harley Warner, PhD
Yale University
Aesthetics, Identity, and the Grounding of Modern Medicine
2002-2003
John Efron, PhD
University of California—Berkeley
Medicine, Modernity, and the German Jews
2001-2002
Steven Feierman, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
Traditional Medicine in Africa: Colonial Transformations
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