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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 1995-96 |
| Date: | 12/5/1995 |
| Program: | “Making a Place for Ourselves”: Black Physicians and Their Hospitals, 1890-1920. |
| Presenter: | Vanessa Northington Gamble, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of the History of Medicine and of Family Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison. |
| Introduced by: | Jessie L. Sherrod, M.D., M.P.H. Hospital Epidemiologist & Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, King-Drew Medical Center. |
| Date: | 10/18/1995 |
| Program: | A Tribute to Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) Louis Pasteur’s World. |
| Presenter: | Earle E. Crandall, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Surgery & Neurobiology, ULCA School of Medicine. |
| Date: | 10/18/1995 |
| Program: | A Tribute to Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) Louis Pasteur’s World. |
| Presenter: | Lawrence R. Freedman, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine. |
| Date: | 11/14/1995 |
| Program: | Accidents and Illnesses, Stumblebums and Orphans: Medicine in 18th and 19th Century Children’s Books. |
| Presenter: | Cynthia Becht, M.L.S. and Russell A. Johnson, M.A., M.L.S.
Special Collections Librarian, Loyola Marymount and Special Collections Cataloger, UCLA respectively |
| Introduced by: | Virginia A. Walter, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Library & Information Science, UCLA. |
| Date: | 2/20/1996 |
| Program: | Misleading Coincidences in the History of Nutritional Disease: Scurvy, and Pellagra. |
| Presenter: | Kenneth Carpenter, Ph.D., Sc.D.
Professor of Nutrition, University of California, Berkeley. |
| Introduced by: | Robert G. Frank, Jr., Ph.D Associate Professor of Medical History. |
| Date: | 5/21/1996 |
| Program: | Alphonse Laveran (1845-1922): Discoverer of the Malaria Parasite. |
| Presenter: | Dalila B. Corry, M.D.
Chief, Renal Division, Olive View Medical Center, & Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, UCLA. |
| Introduced by: | Michael A. Osborne, Ph.D. Associate Professor of History & Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara. |
| Date: | 4/23/1996 |
| Program: | Encephalitis Lethargica: Remembering its Mysteries, Examining its Lessons. |
| Presenter: | Sarah R. Cheyette, M.D., UCLA 1993
Resident in Neurology, University of Washington, Seattle. |
| Introduced by: | Joel T. Braslow, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Psychiatry in Residence. |
| Description: | O’Malley Prize Winner, 1993. |
| Date: | 1/23/1996 |
| Program: | German Psychiatry Born in Revolution: Johann Christian Reil on Mental Illness and Its Cures (1804). |
| Presenter: | LeeAnn Hansen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History, California State University at Fullerton. |
| Introduced by: | Dora B. Weiner, Ph.D. Professor of the Medical Humanities, UCLA. |
| Description: | “Doctors & Disease” was the theme for the second half of the series exploring one of the continuing themes in the history of medicine: disease, its effects, and how physicians have grappled with its manifestations and attempted to understand its nature. |
| Date: | 3/19/1996 |
| Program: | Smallpox in the 18th Century: The Prime of a Dead(ly) Disease. |
| Presenter: | Robert G. Frank, Jr., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medical History and History, UCLA School of Medicine. |
| Introduced by: | Harrison Latta, M.D. Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine. |