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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 1996-97 |
| Date: | 12/10/1996 |
| Program: | Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843) & Homeopathy: Doing More by Giving Less, and Less.... |
| Presenter: | Irwin Ziment, MD
Medical Director, Olive View-UCLA Medical Center and Professor of Medicine, UCLA Medical School. |
| Introduced by: | Dora B. Weiner, Ph.D. Professor of Medical Humanities |
| Date: | 1/28/1997 |
| Program: | The Prescription-Pad Friend: Physicians, Drug Companies, & the FDA |
| Presenter: | Marcia L. Meldrum, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History, UCLA. |
| Introduced by: | Joel T. Braslow, MD, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Psychiatry & History. |
| Date: | 2/25/1997 |
| Program: | Virginia Apgar, M. D.: A Woman Physician’s Career in a Developing Specialty. |
| Presenter: | Selma Harrison Calmes, MD
Chief, Department of Anesthesiology, Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, Clinical Professor and Vice-Chair of Anesthesiology, UCLA School of Medicine. |
| Introduced by: | Robert G. Frank, Jr Associate Professor of Medical History. |
| Date: | 5/27/1997 |
| Program: | At the Boundary of Transgression: Dr. Hollick and His Counsel on Marriage. |
| Presenter: | Charles E. Rosenberg, Ph.D.
Janice and Julian Bers Professor in the History and Sociology of Pennsylvania. |
| Date: | 4/15/1997 |
| Program: | Hildegard of Bingen’s ‘Causes and Cures’ and the Greening of Medieval Medicine. |
| Presenter: | Victoria Sweet, MD, MA
Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. |
| Introduced by: | James A. Schultz, Ph.D. Professor of German, UCLA. |
| Date: | 11/19/1996 |
| Program: | Making a Medical Living in 18th-Century London. |
| Presenter: | Anita Guerrini, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History and Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara. |
| Introduced by: | Robert G. Frank, Jr., Ph.D. Associate Professor of Medical History. |
| Date: | 3/18/1997 |
| Program: | The Balancing Act: Dual-Career Conflicts Experienced by the First Graduates of the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania. |
| Presenter: | Katrina Marie Posta, MD, Class of ’95
Resident in Family Practice Santa Monica Hospital. |
| Introduced by: | Ruth H. Bloch, Ph.D. Associate Professor of History & Chair, Women’s Studies Program, UCLA. |
| Description: | O’Malley Prize Winner, 1995. |
| Date: | 10/22/1996 |
| Program: | The Hippocratic Heresy: Orthodox Physicians and Alternative Medicines in 19th-and 20th-Century America. |
| Presenter: | James C. Whorton, Ph.D.
Professor of Medical History, University of Washington School of Medicine. |
| Introduced by: | Irwin Ziment, MD Medical Director, Olive View-UCLA Medical Center. |