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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 1984-85 |
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | Laënnec’s ‘Treatise on Diseases of the Chest’ (1819) |
| Presenter: | Adrian J. Williams, M.D., M.R.C.P.
Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine and Chief, Pulmonary Disease, Wadsworth VA Hospital, UCLA |
| Introduced by: | Elizabeth R. Lomas, M.D., Ph.D. Adjunct Lecturer, Associate Research Medical Historian, UCLA |
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | A New Orientation for Cataract: Jacques Daviel (1693-1762) |
| Presenter: | August L. Reader, III, M.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology, USC |
| Introduced by: | Dora B. Weiner, Ph.D. Professor of the Medical Humanities, UCLA |
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | Ergot: Between Clinical Medicine and laboratory Pharmac |
| Presenter: | John Parascandola, Ph.D.
Chief, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD |
| Introduced by: | Robert G. Frank, Jr., Ph.D. Associate Professor of Medical History and History, UCLA |
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894): Three Facets from Among Many |
| Presenter: | Wilfrid F.H.M. Mommaerts, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Physiology, Director, Cardiovascular Research Laboratory, UCLA |
| Introduced by: | Stephen Kayser, Ph.D. Professor of Art History, UCLA |
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | John Hunter (1728-1793), Frederick Wood Jones (1879-1954) and the Idea of a Museum |
| Presenter: | David S. Maxwell, M.D.
Professor of Anatomy and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA |
| Introduced by: | Raymond J. Last, M.D., B.S., F.R.C.S. Visiting Professor of Anatomy, Professor of Applied Anatomy, emeritus and Warden, Royal College of Surgeons of England |
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | Sir William Osler (1849-1919): The Journey to Sainthood |
| Presenter: | Charles G. Roland, M.D.
Jason A. Hannah Professor of the History of Medicine, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada |
| Introduced by: | Sherman M. Mellinkoff, M.D. Dean emeritus, School of Medicine, UCLA |
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | The Historic Hospital: An Artist’s Perception |
| Presenter: | Grace Goldin
Photographer and co-Author of The Hospital: A Social and Architectural History (1975) |
| Introduced by: | Raymond G. Schultze, M.D. Director, Hospital and Clinics, UCLA Medical Center |
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | The Hunterian Legacy: An Apogee of 18th-Century English Medicine |
| Presenter: | Joseph K. Perloff, M.D.
Streisand/American Heart Association Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, UCLA |
| Introduced by: | Paul Alkon, Ph.D. Leo S. Bing Professor of English, USC |