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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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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 |