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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 1990-1991 |
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | Democracy at the Frontier: The Rise of American Surgery |
| Presenter: | Christopher Lawrence, M.D., Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer in the History of Medicine, The Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine, London |
| Introduced by: | Gary Nash, Ph.D. Professor of History, UCLA |
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | From Book to Bedside: Literature and Clinical Medicine |
| Presenter: | Martin Donohoe, M.D.
UCLA Class of 1990, Resident, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston |
| Introduced by: | George S. Rousseau, Ph.D. Professor of English, UCLA |
| Description: | CHARLES D. O’MALLEY PRIZE WINNER |
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | Helmholtz and the Clinicians: Origins of the Empiricist Theory of Vision |
| Presenter: | Timothy Lenoir, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History, Stanford University |
| Introduced by: | August L. Reader, III, M.D. Assistant Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology, USC |
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | Max Brödel: Man of Science, Man of Art |
| Presenter: | John Cody, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Kansas |
| Introduced by: | Joel Schechter, M.D. Professor of Anatomy, USC School of Medicine |
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | Midwife with a Mission in 18th- Century France: Madame du Coudray Delivers the Goods |
| Presenter: | Nina Rattner Gelbart, Ph.D.
Professor of History, Occidental College |
| Introduced by: | Robert G. Frank, Jr., Ph.D. Associate Professor of Medical History and History, UCLA. |
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | Paul Broca: Surgeon, Anthropologist and Neuroscientist |
| Presenter: | Francis Schiller, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Neurology, emeritus and Senior Lecturer in the History of the Health Sciences, UCSF |
| Introduced by: | Dora B. Weiner, Ph.D. Professor of the Medical Humanities, UCLA |
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | Paul Ehrlich as Founder of Antibacterial Chemotherapy |
| Presenter: | Marcel Bickel, M.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacology, University of Bern, Switzerland and Visiting Professor of Medical Humanities, UCLA. |
| Introduced by: | Robert G. Frank, Jr., Ph.D. Associate Professor of Medical History and History, UCLA. |