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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 1986-87 |
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | A Nobelist and His Laboratory: Henry Dale (1875-1964) and the Idea of Chemical Transmission in the Nervous System |
| Presenter: | Frank C. MacIntosh, Ph.D.
Professor of Physiology emeritus, McGill University School of Medicine, Montreal, Canada |
| Introduced by: | Robert G. Frank, Jr., Ph.D. Associate Professor of Medical History and History, UCLA. |
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | A Venetian Physician: Nicolaus Gupalatinus and the Arrival of Print in Italy |
| Presenter: | Richard H. Rouse, Ph.D.
Professor of History, UCLA |
| Introduced by: | Fredi Chiapelli, Ph.D. Director, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and Professor of Italian, UCLA |
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | Pierre Fauchard (1678-1761): The 'French Connection’ between Paré and Scientific Dentistry |
| Presenter: | Gordon Ting, M.P.H., D.D.S.
Lecturer, Public Health Dentistry and Professional Schools Seminar Program |
| Introduced by: | Gary B. Nash, Ph.D. Professor of History and Dean, Undergraduate and Intercollege Curricular Development |
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | Practicing Medicine in Edinburgh: William Cullen (1760-1790) |
| Presenter: | Guenter Risse, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of the History and Philosophy of the Health Sciences, UCSF |
| Introduced by: | Dora B. Weiner, Ph.D. Professor of the Medical Humanities, UCLA |
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | Resistance to Innovation: The Community Health Center |
| Presenter: | Milton I. Roemer, M.D.
Professor of Health Services, emeritus, School of Public Health, UCLA |
| Introduced by: | Dora B. Weiner, Ph.D. Professor of the Medical Humanities, UCLA |
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | Sir Charles Bell (1772-1842): Surgeon, Anatomist, Artist, Electro-Neurophysiologist |
| Presenter: | Charles A. Carton, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Surgery (Neurosurgery), and Attending, Neurosurgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. |
| Introduced by: | Robert G. Frank, Jr., Ph.D. Associate Professor of Medical History and History, UCLA. |
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | Thomas Willis (1621-1675): Clinical Scientist |
| Presenter: | W. Eugene Stern, M.D.
Professor of Neurosurgery, UCLA |
| Introduced by: | Robert G. Frank, Jr., Ph.D. Associate Professor of Medical History and History, UCLA. |
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | William Withering (1741-1799): The Botanist as Physician |
| Presenter: | Kenneth I. Shine, M.D.
Professor of Medicine and Dean, UCLA School of Medicine |
| Introduced by: | Ann B. Shteir, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Humanities, York University, Toronto |