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Alessandro Poletto, PhD 85th Historia Medica Lecture “Diagnosing illness at the Heian court: onmyōji and esoteric Buddhist monks at the time of the Tale of Genji” April 19, 2023 |
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Ezelle Sanford III, PhD 84th Historia Medica Lecture “When Disparities Remain: The Enduring Legacy of Segregated Medicine” Feb. 24, 2023 |
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Kristina Kleutghen, PhD 83rd Historia Medica Lecture “A new vision: Chinese spectacles and eyesight in ‘A History of Lenses’ (1681)” Sept. 21, 2022 |
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Elisabeth Brander, MA, MLS 82nd Historia Medica Lecture “” Feb. 23, 2022 |
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Merlin Chowkwanyun, PhD 81st Historia Medica Lecture “Riots, Racism, and Urban Health Reform in the 1960s” Nov. 3, 2021 |
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He Bian (Ch. 邊和), PhD 80th Historia Medica Lecture “Longevity for the World: Self and the Social Body in Early Modern China” Oct. 20, 2021 |
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Susan L. Burns, PhD 79th Historia Medica Lecture “” April 21, 2021 |
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Marquis Berrey, PhD 78th Historia Medica Lecture “The Hidden History of Medical Risk: Examples from Premodern Surgery” March 25, 2021 |
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James L. Nolan, Jr., PhD 77th Historia Medica Lecture “Atomic Doctors: Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age” February 24, 2021 |
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt 76th Historia Medica Lecture “Plagues, Practitioners and Prints: Visualizing Pre-Modern Medical Know-How” November 18, 2020 |
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Cristin Kearns, DDS, MBA 75th Historia Medica Lecture “Parallels Between the Sugar and Tobacco Industries: A First Glimpse at Sugar Industry Documents” October 27, 2020 |
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Bess Brander, MA, MLIS 74th Historia Medica Lecture “Maesters, Greyscale, and Milk of the Poppy: Medicine in ‘Game of Thrones’” February 19, 2020 |
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Candace O’Connor, MA 73rd Historia Medica Lecture “Climbing the Ladder, Chasing the Dream: The History of Homer G. Phillips Hospital” January 22, 2020 |
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Christina Ramos, PhD 72nd Historia Medica Lecture “The Inquisitor’s Laboratory: Madness, the Insanity, and the New World’s First Mental Hospital” November 13, 2019 |
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Anita Guerrini, PhD 71st Historia Medica Lecture “The Courtiers’ Anatomists: Animals and Humans in Louis XIV’s Paris” October 16, 2019 |
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William Powderly, MD 70th Historia Medica Lecture “Are Infectious Diseases Confined to History?” April 25, 2019 |
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Gregory Storch, MD 69th Historia Medica Lecture “Why are Vaccines so Controversial?” March 14, 2019 |
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Shanti Parikh, PhD, Rachel Presti, MD, PhD, and Bradley Stoner, MD, PhD 68th Historia Medica Lecture “STDs Across Time and Space: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives” February 28, 2019 |
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Stephen A. Logsdon, MA, MLIS 67th Historia Medica Lecture “A Benevolent Purpose: Celebrating 140 Years of St. Louis Children’s Hospital” January 31, 2019 |
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Christopher Alan Gordon, MA 66th Historia Medica Lecture “Avoid Crowds as Much as Possible: Stories from the 1918 Spanish Flu Epidemic in St. Louis” January 17, 2019 |
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Nukhet Varlik, PhD 65th Historia Medica Lecture “Five Hundred Years of Plague in Ottoman History: Rethinking the Second Pandemic” November 8, 2018 |
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Nancy Bristow, PhD 64th Historia Medica Lecture “I thought my eyes would never see such horror: Health Care Providers and the Influenza Pandemic of 1918” October 11, 2018 |
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Jonathan Sawday, PhD 63rd Historia Medica Lecture “Easing the Distressed Mind: Robert Burton and the Anatomy of Melancholy” April 5, 2018 |
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Corinna Treitel, PhD 62nd Historia Medica Lecture “Nature and the Nazi Diet” March 8, 2018 |
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Philip Skroska, MLitt, CA 61st Historia Medica Lecture “And We Won’t Come Back Till It’s Over, Over There” February 22, 2018 |
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Lewis Chase 60th Historia Medica Lecture “Fuller Albright: Pioneer in the Field of Endocrinology” January 18, 2018 |
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William Owens, MD 59th Historia Medica Lecture “History of Anesthesiology at Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes Hospital, 1910-1992” November 9, 2017 |
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David J. Morris, MA, MFA 58th Historia Medica Lecture “What We Talk About When We Talk About PTSD” October 4, 2017 |
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Richard Brasington, MD 57th Historia Medica Lecture “A Brief History of Informed Consent in the United States” March 16, 2017 |
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Elisabeth Brander, MA, MLS 56th Historia Medica Lecture “Books and Bodies: 500 Years of Printing Medical Texts” February 16, 2017 |
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Stephen Lefrak, MD 55th Historia Medical Lecture “The Living Heritage of John Locke and his Colleagues: From the Enlightenment through Tomorrow” January 12, 2017 |
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William G. Powderly, MD 54th Historia Medica Lecture “How Infection Shaped America: Lessons from Irish Famine” November 10, 2016 |
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Paola Bertucci, DPhil and Stanley Finger, PhD 53rd Historia Medica Lecture “Frankenstein, the Vital Force, and Electricity” October 6, 2016 |
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Mark J. Mannis, MD FACS 52nd Historia Medica/6th Annual Bohigian Lectureship “Shakespeare’s Eye: A Study of the Eye in Disease and Metaphor in the Works of William Shakespeare” September 28, 2016 |
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L. Lewis, Wall, MD, DPhil 51st Historia Medica Lecture “Goat Gland Messiah: The Bizarre Rise and Spectacular Fall of Dr. John R. Brinkley” April 21, 2016 |
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Alisha Rankin, PhD 50th Historia Medica Lecture “Poison Trials: Testing Antidotes in Early Modern Europe” March 10, 2016 |
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Marc R. Moon, MD 49th Historia Medica Lecture “History of Thoracic Surgery at Washington University” January 21, 2016 |
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Luis Alejandro Salas 48th Historia Medica Lecture “The Licensing Function of Galenic Anatomical Procedures, Text, and Practice” November 12, 2015 |
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Candace O’Connor 47th Historia Medica lecture “Harriet, Hirrel, Jessie and a Few Surprises: Earliest Women at Washington University School of Medicine” October 22, 2015 |
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Ira J. Kodner, MD 46th Historia Medica Lecture “Medical Ethics and Frankenstein’s Monster” September 17, 2015 |
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Antonella Rastelli, M.D. 45th Historia Medica Lecture “Heart to Heart: The Life and Letters of Dr. Giancarlo Rastelli, Pioneer of Cardiothoracic Surgery” March 26, 2015 |
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Will Ross, M.D. 44th Historia Medica Lecture “Urban Health and the History of Public Hospitals in the US” March 12, 2015 |
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Stanley Misler, MD, PhD 43rd Historia Medica Lecture “The Isolated Pancreatic Islet as a Micro-Organ and its Transplantation to Cure Diabetes: Celebrating the Legacy of Paul Lacy” February 19, 2015 |
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Susan E. Mackinnon, M.D. 42nd Historia Medica Lecture “Nerve Transfers: A 19th Century Idea Revolutionizes 21st Century Care of Nerve Injury” December 4, 2014 |
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Kenneth M. Ludmerer, M.D. 41st Historia Medica Lecture “Residency Training in the United States: Past, Present, Future” November 13, 2014 |
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Michael Marmor, MD 40th Historia Medica Lecture “Vision and History: Looking Through an Artist’s Eyes” October 1, 2014 |
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Garland “Gar” Allen, Ph.D. 39th Historia Medica Lecture “Biology of Elimination: Eugenics and the Consequences of Genocentrism, 1900-1945” September 11, 2014 |
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Robert M. Feibel, M.D. 38th Historia Medica Lecture “Paul A. Cibis, M.D.: A St. Louis Pioneer of Modern Vitreoretinal Surgery” April 10, 2014 |
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Holly Tucker, Ph.D. 37th Historia Medica Lecture “Early Blood Transfusion: Science, Society and Lessons from the Past for the Medical Future” March 27, 2014 |
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Sara van den Berg, Ph.D. 36th Historia Medica Lecture “Cultural Meanings of the Dwarf Body” February 27, 2014 |
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Todd L. Savitt, Ph.D. 35th Historia Medica Lecture “Race, Medicine, Authorship and the ‘Discovery’ of Sickle Cell Disease, 1910-1911” January 9, 2014 |
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Robert C. Kolodny, M.D. 34th Historia Medica Lecture “Unraveling the Mysteries of Human Sexuality: The Masters and Johnson Story” November 21, 2013 |
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Anne Stiles, Ph.D. 33rd Historia Medica Lecture “Bram Stroker’s Brother, the Brain Surgeon” October 16, 2013 |
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James G. Ravin, M.D. 32nd Historia Medica Lecture / Bohigian Lectureship for the History of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences “Eye Diseases of Famous Artists” October 9, 2013 |
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Alan J. McComas, M.D. 31st Historia Medica Lecture / William M. Landau Lectureship “Insights and Impulse” September 26, 2013 |
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Mark Frisse, M.D., M.B.A, M.Sc. 30th Historia Medica Lecture “Biomedical Information: Past, Present and Future” April 18, 2013 |
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Joseph K. Hanaway, M.D 29th Historia Medica Lecture “McGill Medicine: 1829-1996” April 11, 2013 |
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Ken Winn, Ph.D. 28th Historia Medica Lecture “A Cynic Admires an Eccentric: Mark Twain and Washington University’s Dr. Joseph McDowell” March 7, 2013 |
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Adrianne Noe, Ph.D. 27th Historia Medica Lecture “The National Museum of Health and Medicine: a Lecture in Commemoration of its 150th Anniversary” January 31, 2013 |
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Marion Hunt, Ph.D. 26th Historia Medica Lecture “An Ever-Widening Sphere: Dr. Martha Eliot’s Career” December 6, 2012 |
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Thomas Danisi 25th Historia Medica Lecture “A New Perspective on the Death of Meriwether Lewis” November 15, 2012 |
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Robert Feibel, M.D. 24th Historia Medica Lecture “Simon Pollak and Ophthalmology In St. Louis during the Civil War” April 12, 2012 |
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Robert L. Grubb, Jr., M.D. 23rd Historia Medica Lecture “Developing Academic Neurosurgery Leadership: The Legacy of Ernest Sachs and Henry Schwartz” February 23, 2012 |
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Eva Mozes Kor 22nd Historia Medica Lecture “The Lessons I Learned in Mengele’s Lab” September 8, 2011 |
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Memory Elvin-Lewis, Ph.D. 21st Historia Medica Lecture “AIDS before AIDS in St. Louis – If the Shoe Fits: A retrospective discovery” March 31, 2011 |
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Jerry Cox, Ph.D. 20th Historia Medica Lecture “Small Computers in Biomedical Science: the developers and their machines, ancestors and progeny” January 20, 2011 |
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Candace O’Connor 19th Historia Medica Lecture “Transforming Medical Education: Pritchett, Flexner, and Brookings” November 1, 2010 |
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Amy Eisen Cislo, Ph.D. 18th Historia Medica Lecture “Diagnosing Sex: The Theories and Contributions of Paracelsus (1493-1541) to Pharmacological Medicine” April 15, 2010 |
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Ellen S. More, Ph.D. 17th Historia Medica Lecture “Political Change, Personal Stories: 1849–2009 (Changing the Face of Medicine)” August 13, 2009 |
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Angela N. H. Creager, Ph.D. 16th Historia Medica Lecture “Atoms for Peace and Health: The Consequences of the Manhattan Project for Biology and Medicine” June 8, 2009 |
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Barbara Baumgartner, Ph.D. 15th Historia Medica Lecture “Anatomy Lessons: Reading the Body in Emily Dickinson’s Poetry” November 20, 2008 |
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Caroline Hillard 14th Historia Medica Lecture “Realdo Colombo and Michelangelo: Anatomy Lessons from Renaissance Rome” April 17, 2008 |
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Rebecca Messbarger, Ph.D. 13th Historia Medica Lecture “Theatrum Corporis: Pope Benedict XIV’s Wax Musuem of Human Anatomy” November 15, 2007 |
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Thomas A. Woolsey, M.D. 12th Historia Medica Lecture “Seeing Ideas: Insight from Interplay Between Artists, Physicians & Scientists” April 19, 2007 |
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Lewis L. Wall, M.D., Ph.D. 11th Historia Medica Lecture “Did J. Marion Sims Deliberately Addict His First Fistula Patients to Opium?” November 15, 2006 |
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Marjorie Lorch, PhD 10th Historia Medica Lecture “Eighteenth Century Perspectives on Language, Mind and Brain from the Writings of Jonathan Swift” April 3, 2006 |
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Michael A. Flannery 9th Historia Medica Lecture “Civil War Pharmacy” November 3, 2005 |
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Stanley Finger, Ph.D. 8th Historia Medica Lecture “Benjamin Franklin: Pioneer of Medical Electricity” April 21, 2005 |
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Robert Frank, Jr., Ph.D. 7th Historia Medica Lecture “Nobelists and the Neurosciences at Washington University, 1918-1944” November 11, 2004 |
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Conevery Bolton Valencius, Ph.D. 6th Historia Medica Lecture “Bad Airs, Good Waters, and Healthy Places: Health and Environment in the Nineteenth Century West” March 23, 2004 |
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James Whorton, Ph.D. 5th Historia Medica Lecture “From Cultism to CAM: The Rise of Alternative Medicine” October 23, 2003 |
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Walton O. Schalick III, M.D., Ph.D. 4th Historia Medica Lecture “Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones: Opiates, Pain, and Professional Medicine in the Middle Ages” April 17, 2003 |
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Shelley McKellar, Ph.D. 3rd Historia Medica Lecture “Artificial Hearts: Technology and Organ Replacement in Twentieth Century Medicine” October 10, 2002 |
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Kenneth Ludmerer, M.D., Ph.D. 2nd Historia Medica Lecture “The American Medical Student: a History” March 7, 2002 |
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Jonathon Erlen, Ph.D. 1st Historia Medica Lecture “Human Experimentation in Twentieth Century American Medicine” October 24, 2001 |