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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 2002-2003 |
| Date: | 5/13/2003 |
| Program: | Hans Eppinger: From Master of Medicine to Servant of the Nazi State |
| Presenter: | M. Michael Thaler, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics, Emeritus, University of California, San Francisco; and Professor of History, University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Introduced by: | Peter Loewenberg, Ph.D. Professor of History, UCLA; and Dean, Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute |
| Date: | 3/11/2003 |
| Program: | Is There an Alternative to Alternative Medicine? 20th-Century Debates |
| Presenter: | Irwin Ziment, M.D., F.R.C.P.
Professor of Clinical Medicine, Emeritus, UCLA Medical Center and UCLA/Olive View Medical Center |
| Introduced by: | Robert G. Frank, Jr., Ph.D. Professor of Medical History and History, UCLA |
| Description: | Medicine on Shifting Ground: 20th-Century Episodes In the 20th century, Western medicine finally achieved what it had long sought: wide-ranging power to prevent disease, accompanied by high societal status and massive financial resources. Yet its very success and power brought it into changing relations with the expectations and demands of society and the state. To exemplify these complex relations, we are pleased to welcome an excellent group of physicians and historians who will explore for us how 20th-century medicine and physicians dealt with shifting demands and challenges |
| Date: | 1/14/2005 |
| Program: | On the early days of penicillin |
| Presenter: | Glenn E. Mathisen, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCLA Medical Center; and Chief of the Infectious Diseases Service, UCLA/Olive View Medical Center |
| Date: | 12/10/2005 |
| Program: | On the origin of the sulfa drugs |
| Presenter: | John E. Lesch, Ph.D.
Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley |
| Date: | 11/19/2002 |
| Program: | Paul Ehrlich: The Man and His Magic Bullets |
| Presenter: | Robert G. Frank, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor of Medical History and History, Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA |
| Date: | 4/22/2003 |
| Program: | Power, Privilege, and Spinal Puncture: The Tuskegee Syphilis Study in Historical Perspective |
| Presenter: | Susan E. Lederer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of the History of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine |
| Introduced by: | Steven Peckman Associate Director for Human Subjects Protection, UCLA |