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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 1997-98 |
| Date: | 1/20/1998 |
| Program: | Designing Minds: Reflections on the History of Psychiatric Classification. |
| Presenter: | Mark S. Micale
University Research Fellow, Department of History, University of Manchester, England |
| Introduced by: | Dora B. Weiner, Ph.D. Professor of the Medical Humanities and Professor of History, UCLA. |
| Date: | 2/24/1998 |
| Program: | Humane Release: The Patient's Choice. |
| Presenter: | Peter Loewenberg, Ph.D.
Professor of History and Political Psychology, UCLA. |
| Introduced by: | Peter C. Whybrow, M.B. Professor and Executive Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA |
| Date: | 10/21/1997 |
| Program: | Numbers in Medicine |
| Presenter: | Theodore Porter
Professor of History, UCLA |
| Introduced by: | Lynn A. Fairbanks, Ph.D. Statistical Consultant and Research Psychologist, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA |
| Date: | 3/17/1998 |
| Program: | The Ghost of Galton: Eugenics Past, Present, and Future. |
| Presenter: | Daniel J. Kevles, Ph.D.
Koepfli Professor of Humanities, Director of the Program in Science, Ethics, and Public Policy, California Institute of Technology. |
| Introduced by: | Theodore M. Porter, Ph.D. Professor of History, UCLA |
| Date: | 4/14/1998 |
| Program: | Cloning Human Beings: Should We Control It? Can We? |
| Presenter: | Alexander M. Capron, LLB.
Professor of Law and Medicine, Co-Director, Pacific Center for Health Policy and Ethics, University of Southern California. |
| Introduced by: | Stanley G. Korenman, M.D. Professor of Medicine, Director, Ethics and Medical Science Training Program, UCLA |
| Date: | 12/9/1997 |
| Program: | Dickinson W. Richard, M.D.: Nobel Physician-Scientist and the Making of a Nobel Prize: A Personal Reminiscence. |
| Presenter: | Herbert Weiner
Professor of Psychiatry emeritus, UCLA |
| Introduced by: | Joseph K. Perloff, M.D. Streisand/American Heart Association Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, UCLA |
| Date: | 11/18/1997 |
| Program: | Medicine in the Service of Colonialism in Portuguese Africa |
| Presenter: | Martin Shapiro
Professor of Medicine, UCLA |
| Introduced by: | Michael A. Osborne, Ph.D. Professor of History and Environmental Studies, UCSB |
| Date: | 5/19/1998 |
| Program: | The Physician as Whistle Blower: Henry Beecher and the Ethics of Human Experimentation. |
| Presenter: | David J. Rothman, Ph.D.
Bernard Schoenberg Professor of Social Medicine, & Director, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. |
| Introduced by: | Dora B. Weiner, Ph.D. Professor of the Medical Humanities and Professor of History, UCLA. |