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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 1992-93 | >
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | A Plague upon both your Houses: Syphilis in the Age of Columbus. |
| Presenter: | Ann C. Carmichael, M.D., Ph. D.
Associate Professor of History, Indiana University |
| Introduced by: | Robert G. Frank, Jr., Ph.D. Associate Professor of Medical History and History, UCLA |
| Date: | 11/17/1992 |
| Program: | Andreas Vesalius and the structure of the human body. |
| Presenter: | Jerome J. Bylebyl, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of the History of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University. |
| Introduced by: | Ynez V. O'Neill Professor of Medical History, UCLA. |
| Date: | 2/9/1993 |
| Program: | From the Devil to Descartes: changing concepts of the body. |
| Presenter: | Patrick Vandermeersch, Ph.D.
Professor of the Psychology of Religion, Groningen University, The Netherlands. |
| Introduced by: | Bernard Towers, M.D. Professor of Anatomy and Psychiatry, Emeritus, UCLA. |
| Description: | Outreach Site: Pasadena City College. |
| Date: | 10/20/1992 |
| Program: | Girolamo Cardano and medical education in the Renaissance. |
| Presenter: | Nancy G. Siraisi, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of History, The City University of New York. |
| Introduced by: | Norman J. Thrower, Ph.D. Professor of Geography, UCLA, and Director, UCLA 1992 Quincentenary Programs. |
| Date: | 12/8/1992 |
| Program: | Medical licensing and learning in Aragon and New Spain |
| Presenter: | Michael R. McVaugh, Ph.D.
Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
| Introduced by: | Joaquin M. Fuster, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry, UCLA |
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | Outreach Site: Santa Monica City College. Native American Medicinal Plants. |
| Presenter: | Mildred E. Mathias, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita of Botany, UCLA |
| Introduced by: | Raphael Chabrán, Ph.D Associate Professor of Spanish, Whittier College. |
| Date: | 3/9/1993 |
| Program: | The hospital in the age of Columbus. |
| Presenter: | Dieter Jetter, M.D.
Director, Institute of the History of Medicine, University of Cologne, Germany. |
| Introduced by: | Dora B. Weiner, Ph.D. Professor of the Medical Humanities, UCLA. |
| Description: | Outreach Site: Santa Monica City College. |
| Date: | 1/19/1993 |
| Program: | The Witches' Hammer (1487): handbook of the Inquisition. |
| Presenter: | John C. Nemiah, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School; Professor Emeritus, Harvard University. |
| Introduced by: | M.J.B. Allen Professor of English, UCLA, and Director, UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. |