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The UCLA Programs in Medical Classics began in 1983. The lecture series is designed to bring together important medical writings and texts, clinical practice, basic research and humanistic scholarship. The programs explore in detail the scientific and clinical meaning of the text or topic, and its significance in the light of present-day medical practice. The topics embody the history of medicine, as well as the relation of medicine to broader cultural settings. |
| Medical Classics 1983-84 |
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | Claude Bernard (1813-1879) and the Illusion of Certainty |
| Presenter: | Lawrence R. Freedman, M.D.
Professor of Medicine/Infectious Disease, Chairman, Medicine Wadsworth VA Hospital, UCLA |
| Introduced by: | Dora B. Weiner, Ph.D. Professor of the Medical Humanities, UCLA |
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | Florence Nightingale as a Health Statistician |
| Presenter: | Charles E. Lewis, M.D.
Professor and Chief, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, UCLA |
| Introduced by: | Leslie R.C. Agnew, M.D. Associate Professor of Medical History, UCLA |
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | Franz Anton Mesmer (1783-1815): From Animal Magnetism to Hypnosis |
| Presenter: | L. Jolyon West, M.D.
Professor and Chair, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Director, Neuropsychiatric Institute Introduction: Norman Cousins, Adjunct Professor of the Medical Humanities, UCLA |
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | Giambattista Morgagni’s ‘De sedibus’ and ‘Medical consultations’ |
| Presenter: | Saul Jarcho, M.D.
New York, Past President, American Association for the History of Medicine |
| Introduced by: | Dora B. Weiner, Ph.D. Professor of the Medical Humanities, UCLA |
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | Regnier de Graaf (1641-1673) and Gastroenterology |
| Presenter: | Irwin J. Pincus, M.D.
Professor of Medicine/Gastroenterology, USC |
| Introduced by: | Robert G. Frank, Jr., Ph.D. Associate Professor of Medical History and History, UCLA |
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | Richard Bright: The Consummate Observer |
| Presenter: | Leon G. Fine, M.D.
Professor and Chief, Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, UCLA |
| Introduced by: | Derek Fraser, Ph.D. Professor of History, UCLA |
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | Santiago Ramon y Cajal (1852-1934) and Modern Neurology |
| Presenter: | Arnold B. Scheibel, M.D.
Professor of Anatomy and Psychiatry, UCLA |
| Introduced by: | Robert G. Frank, Jr., Ph.D. Associate Professor of Medical History and History, UCLA |
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | The Flexner Report (1910): Revised or Revisited? |
| Presenter: | Gert H. Brieger, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.
Professor and Chairman, Department of History of the Health Sciences, UCSF, William H. Welch Professor-Elect and Director-Elect, Institute of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University |
| Introduced by: | Franklin D. Murphy, M.D. Professor of Medical History, UCLA |