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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 2000-2001 |
| Date: | 5/22/2001 |
| Program: | At the Bedside: Listening and Touching in the 18th-Century Medical Examination |
| Presenter: | Mary Lindemann, Ph.D.
Professor of History, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Introduced by: | Dora B. Weiner, Ph.D. Professor of the Medical Humanities and of History, UCLA |
| Description: | Also introduced by Verna R. Porter, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor of Neurology, UCLA. |
| Date: | 1/30/2001 |
| Program: | Disease and Environment in America: Retrospect and Prospect |
| Presenter: | Gerald N. Grob, Ph.D.
Professor of History, Rutgers University |
| Introduced by: | Martin F. Shapiro Professor of Medicine, and Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, UCLA |
| Date: | 11/14/2000 |
| Program: | Dr. John Snow, Historical Giant in Epidemiology and Anesthesiology - A Web-Based Presentation |
| Presenter: | Ralph R. Frerichs, D.V.M., D.P.H
Professor and Chair of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health |
| Introduced by: | Robert G. Frank, Jr., Ph.D. Chief, Medical History Division, UCLA |
| Date: | 2/13/2001 |
| Program: | Goethe as Scientist: A Sequel |
| Presenter: | Joseph K. Perloff, M.D.
Streisand/American Heart Association Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, UCLA School of Medicine |
| Introduced by: | Michael H. Heim, Ph.D. Professor and Chair, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures |
| Date: | 12/12/2000 |
| Program: | Hughlings Jackson's Neurology |
| Presenter: | George K. York, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, and Chief of Neurology, Kaiser-Stockton Medical Center |
| Introduced by: | Russell Johnson, M.S., M.L.S. Archivist, Louise Darling Biomedical Library |
| Description: | Co-sponsored by the Neuroscience History Archive, UCLA Brain Research Institute |
| Date: | 10/17/2000 |
| Program: | Spitzka and Spitzka on the Brains of Assassins of Presidents |
| Presenter: | Duane E. Haines, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, University of Mississippi |
| Introduced by: | Joan Waugh, Ph.D. Associate Professor of History, UCLA |
| Description: | Co-Sponsored by the Neuroscience History Archive, UCLA Brain Research Institute |
| Date: | 4/24/2001 |
| Program: | The Power of the Placebo |
| Presenter: | Andrew F. Leuchter, M.D.
Professor and Director, Division of Adult Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute |
| Introduced by: | Margaret E. Kemeney, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA |
| Date: | 3/13/2001 |
| Program: | The Unsung Heroines of American Medical Women |
| Presenter: | Gertrude P. Finkelstein, M.D.
Emerita Attending Staff, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles |
| Introduced by: | Robert G. Frank, Jr., Ph.D. Professor of Medical History and History, and Chief, Medical History Division, UCLA |