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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 1999-2000 |
| Date: | 4/18/2000 |
| Program: | Dioscorides' De materia medica' : Circulation and Transformation of the Text from Antiquity to Byzantium |
| Presenter: | Alain Touwaide, Ph.D.
Fellow, Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, Washington, DC. |
| Introduced by: | Claudia Rapp, D.Phil. Assistant Professor of History, UCLA Co-sponsored by the University of California Multi-Campus Group in Late Antiquity |
| Date: | 2/22/2000 |
| Program: | Haggis in Hong Kong: Scottish National Identity and the Making of Colonial Medical Experts. |
| Presenter: | Mary P. Sutphen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History of Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco |
| Introduced by: | Peter Baldwin, Ph.D. Professor of History, UCLA |
| Date: | 6/6/2000 |
| Program: | "Peace and quiet without doctors soon shall be mine": Frédéric Chopin's Experience of Mid-19th Century Medicine |
| Presenter: | Axel Karenburg, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of the History of Medicine, University of Cologne, Germany. |
| Introduced by: | Robert G. Frank, Jr., Ph.D. Chief, Medical History Division, UCLA |
| Date: | 1/18/2000 |
| Program: | 'Give me your hand, and let me feel your pulse': The Hellenistic Origins of a Clinical Revolution. |
| Presenter: | Heinrich von Staden, Ph.D.
Professor of Ancient Greek Culture and Science, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J. |
| Introduced by: | Ronald Mellor, Ph.D. Professor of History, UCLA |
| Date: | 3/14/2000 |
| Program: | Laennec, His Stethoscope, and the Birth of Physical Diagnosis. |
| Presenter: | Jacalyn Duffin, M.D., F.R.C.P.(C), Ph.D.
Hannah Professor of the History of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. |
| Introduced by: | Dora B. Weiner, Ph.D. Professor of Medical Humanities and of History, UCLA |
| Date: | 11/16/1999 |
| Program: | Observe and Heal: Philippe Pinel (1745-1826) and the Beginnings of a Comprehensive Medicine of Mind and Body |
| Presenter: | Dora B. Weiner, Ph.D.
Professor of Medical Humanities and History, UCLA |
| Introduced by: | Lynn Hunt, Ph.D. Eugene Weber Professor of Modern History, UCLA |
| Date: | 10/19/1999 |
| Program: | Rudolf Virchow! Where Are You Now That We Need You? |
| Presenter: | H. Jack Geiger, M.D., M.Sci.Hyg., Sc.D. (hon)
Arthur C. Logan Professor of Community Health and Social Medicine, emeritus, City University of New York Medical School |
| Introduced by: | Robert G. Frank, Jr., Ph.D. Associate Professor of Medical History and History, UCLA |
| Date: | 12/7/1999 |
| Program: | The Comparative Anatomy of the Brain in the 17th Century: From Religious Anthropocentricity to Systematic Biology |
| Presenter: | Lawrence Kruger, Ph.D.
Professor of Neurobiology, emeritus, UCLA |
| Introduced by: | Margaret Jacob, Ph.D. Professor of History, UCLA |