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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 2001-2002 |
| Date: | 10/30/2001 |
| Program: | Launching Hernández: Presentation of "The World of Dr. Francisco Hernández" |
| Presenter: | Simon Varey, Rafael Chabrán, Dora B. Weiner, eds.
Stanford University Press, 2000 |
| Date: | 12/11/2001 |
| Program: | "Dutch Medicine in Kimono: The introduction of European medical sciences into 18th century Japan" |
| Presenter: | Harmen Beukers, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of History of Medicine Leiden University, The Netherlands |
| Introduced by: | Herman Ooms, Ph.D. Professor of History, UCLA |
| Date: | 1/15/2002 |
| Program: | “Daniel Vergara Lope (1865-1938) and Altitude Physiology in Mexico” |
| Presenter: | Ana Cecilia Rodriguez de Romo, MD. Ph.D.
Chair, Department of the History and Philosophy of Medicine; Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
| Introduced by: | Rafael Chabrán, Ph.D. Associate Dean for Academic Advisement and First Year Experience and Professor of Spanish, Whittier College |
| Date: | 11/13/2001 |
| Program: | “French Tropical Medicine in the Nineteenth Century” |
| Presenter: | Michael A. Osborne, Ph. D.
Associate Professor of History and Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Introduced by: | Dora B. Weiner, Ph. D. Professor of the Medical Humanities and History, UCLA |
| Date: | 3/12/2002 |
| Program: | How the Development of a Modern Consumer Culture Was Necessary for the Deinstitutionalization of Mental Patients in the Late 20th Century |
| Presenter: | John C. Burnham, Ph.D.
Professor of History and Psychiatry, Ohio State University |
| Introduced by: | Alexander S. Young, M.D., M.S.H.S. Assistant Professor of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA |
| Date: | 4/9/2002 |
| Program: | Men and Mental Illness: A Tale of Two Therapies |
| Presenter: | Joel T. Braslow, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA; and Director, UCLA Neuroscience History Archives |
| Introduced by: | Theodore Porter, Ph.D. Professor of History, UCLA |
| Date: | 2/12/2002 |
| Program: | Psychopharmacology and the Naming of Disease: How Do We Get Out of This Dead End? |
| Presenter: | Edward L. Shorter, Ph.D.
Hannah Professor of the History of Medicine, University of Toronto |
| Introduced by: | Peter Whybrow, M.D. Judson Braun Professor and Executive Chair of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, and Director, UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute Mental Disorders and Biological Cures: Lectures in the History of Psychiatry and Neuroscience |
| Description: | Program for February 2002 through May 2002 Mental Disorders and Biological Cures: Lectures in the History of Psychiatry and Neuroscience |
| Date: | 5/12/2002 |
| Program: | The Appearances of Science |
| Presenter: | David Healy, M.D.
Reader in Psychological Medicine, University of Wales College of Medicine |
| Introduced by: | Kenneth B. Wells, M.D., M.P.H. Professor of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA |