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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 1998-99 |
| Date: | 11/17/1998 |
| Program: | Bringing the Social History of Medicine to America: Henry Sigerist at Johns Hopkins, 1932-1947 |
| Presenter: | Genevieve Miller, Ph.D.
Associate Professor Emerita of the History of Science, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University |
| Introduced by: | Gerald S. Spear, M.D. Professor of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of California at Irvine |
| Date: | 12/8/1998 |
| Program: | Henry Sigerist and the Politics of Medical Care in America |
| Presenter: | Elizabeth Fee, Ph.D.
Chief, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine |
| Introduced by: | E. Richard Brown, Ph.D. Professor of Public Health, and Director, Center for Health Policy Research, School of Public Health, UCLA |
| Date: | 10/20/1998 |
| Program: | How to Become a Medical Historian: Sigerist's Early Years in Switzerland |
| Presenter: | Marcel H. Bickel, M.D.
Professor emeritus of Pharmacology, Medizinhistorisches Institut, Universität Bern, Switzerland |
| Introduced by: | Milton I. Roemer, M.D. Professor Emeritus of Public Health, UCLA |
| Description: | The Social History of Medicine: The Thought and Career of Henry Sigerist, M.D. (1891-1957) |
| Date: | 3/23/1999 |
| Program: | Masters of Clinical Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Dublin |
| Presenter: | Noel G. Boyle, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine |
| Introduced by: | Robert G. Frank, Jr., Ph.D. Chief, Medical History Division, UCLA School of Medicine |
| Date: | 1/19/1999 |
| Program: | The Influence of Politics on Henry Sigerist's Work in Medical History |
| Presenter: | Theodore M. Brown
Professor of History, Community and Preventive Medicine, and Humanities, University of Rochester School of Medicine |
| Introduced by: | Milton I. Roemer, M.D. Professor Emeritus of Public Health, UCLA |
| Date: | 4/13/1999 |
| Program: | The Making of a Legend in American Medical Education: Abraham Flexner's Critical Years, 1908-1912 |
| Presenter: | Thomas N. Bonner, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus, Wayne State University; and Visiting Scholar, Arizona State University |
| Introduced by: | Joel T. Braslow, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and of History, UCLA School of Medicine |
| Date: | 5/25/1999 |
| Program: | Trauma and Text: Stephen Crane's Stories of Injury in the Civil War |
| Presenter: | David L. Smith, M.D. (UCLA 1994)
NIMH Research Fellow and Staff Psychiatrist, Stanford University School of Medicine |
| Introduced by: | Irena A. Smith, Ph.D. (UCLA 1995) Lecturer in the Structural Liberal Education Program, Stanford University |
| Date: | 2/23/1999 |
| Program: | Wars Against Disease: Anti-Diphtheria Campaigns and the Media |
| Presenter: | Evelynn M. Hammonds, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of the History of Science, Program in Science, Technology and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Introduced by: | David D. Porter, M.D. Professor Emeritus of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine |
| Description: | For the second half of the 1998-1999 season we are pleased to welcome an excellent group of clinicians and historians who will explore for us a variety of topics in the world of medicine from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries. |