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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 1994-95 |
| Date: | 12/6/1994 |
| Program: | Machines in Medicine: Early Use of the X-Ray in America, 1895-1925. |
| Presenter: | Joel D. Howell, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and History, University of Michigan. |
| Introduced by: | Theodore M. Porter Associate Professor History. |
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | Anthropology and Medical Discourse in New Spain |
| Presenter: | David A. Boruchoff, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies and Chair, Interdisciplinary Program in Latin-American and Caribbean Studies, McGill University, Montreal, Canada |
| Introduced by: | Patrick J. Geary, Ph.D. Professor of History and Director, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA Library |
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | Dr. Francisco Hernández, Censored? |
| Presenter: | Carmen Benito- Vessels, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Maryland at College Park. |
| Introduced by: | Simon Varey, Ph.D. General Editor, The World of Dr. Francisco Hernández |
| Description: | Postscript on the Hernández Project by Dora B. Weiner, Ph.D., Professor of the Medical Humanities and Director of the Hernández Project. |
| Date: | 3/14/1995 |
| Program: | Dr. Hernández’ “Mexican Treasure” and European Science. |
| Presenter: | Clara Sue Kidwell, Ph.D.
Assistant Director for Cultural Resources, national Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution. |
| Introduced by: | Michael J.B. Allen, Ph.D. Professor of English, UCLA. |
| Date: | 2/14/1995 |
| Program: | Mexican medicine comes to England. |
| Presenter: | Simon Varey, Ph.D.
General Editor, The World of Dr. Francisco Hernández, a work-in-progress to be published by Stanford University Press. |
| Introduced by: | Norris Pope, D.Phil. Director, Stanford University Press. |
| Description: | The World of Dr. Francisco Hernandez (1515-1587): 4 lectures co-sponsored by The Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies. |
| Date: | 10/18/1994 |
| Program: | Narrative at the Bedside: the Transformation of the Patient Record in 19th -Century America. |
| Presenter: | John Harley Warner, Ph.D.
Professor of the History of Medicine, Yale University. |
| Introduced by: | Lawrence R. Freedman, M.D. Professor of Medicine. |
| Date: | 11/15/1994 |
| Program: | Therapy is in the Eyes of the Beholder: Doctors, Patients and Treatment in California State Hospitals, 1900-1930. |
| Presenter: | Joel T. Braslow, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences. |
| Introduced by: | Leonard Pitt Professor Emeritus of History, California State University, Northridge. |
| Date: | 1/24/1995 |
| Program: | William Osler, Sigmund Freud, and the evolution of ideas concerning cerebral palsy. |
| Presenter: | Lawrence D. Longo, M.D.
Professor of Physiology, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Loma Linda University School of Medicine |