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The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society

Presentations and Events, 2007/2008

Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Edmund A. Franken, Jr., M.D
Poisoning on the Prairie:  Abraham Lincoln, Nancy Hanks Lincoln and Milk Sickness

Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Douglas Merrill, M.D.
Iowa Leading the Way: Dr. Ralph Waters and the First Ambulatory Surgery Center

Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Russell Noyes, M.D.
On the Transformation of Hypochondriasis:  1680 to 1880

Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Emily Alden, Student, Interdepartmental Studies Program, UI
Physicians of the Deaf:  Treatment, Prevention and the AMA's War on Quackery 1910-1940

Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Ronald Strauss, M.D.
Elmer L. DeGowin, MD

Blood transfusions in war and peace

Friday, April 25, 2008
University of Iowa History of Medicine Society Banquet

R. Palmer Howard Dinner

Walton O. Schalick, III, Md, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medical History, University of Wisconsin-Madison

'Humanizing' Disability Care: Pediatrics, Policy and Crippled Children in the US and Europe, 1802-1945


Thursday, May 15, 2008

Open House in the John Martin Rare Book Room

"No Small Presumption"--Surgical Works from Six Centuries

 

Presentations and Events 2006-2007

April 20, 2007
Prof. Christopher Crenner,
M.D., Ph.D., University of Kansas R. Palmer Howard Annual Banquet "Beyond the Pale: The Changing Use of Race in Medical Practice"

March 20, 2007
John Martin Rare Book Room Open House
“So Divinely Built a Mansion” – Six Centuries of Human Anatomical Illustration
The open house highlighted the important remounting of Paolo Mascogni's atlas, Anatomia Universa, of 1823.Other major anatomical works were also on display.

February 20, 2007
Thomas Schulein, M.S., D.D.S., Department of Operative Dentistry, College of Dentistry
"William Herber Taggart and the End of the Process Patent 'Wars' in Dentistry"

January 23, 2007
Charles Hawtrey, M.D., Department of Urology
Teaching the “Unteachable” Transurethral Resection 1932-1950.

November 28, 2006
Barron Lerner, M.D., Ph.D.
Columbia University
"How One Death Changed Medical Education: Revisiting the Libby Zion Case"

October 31, 2006
Johanna Schoen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of History
"The Development of Pregnancy Termination Procedures Since Roe vs. Wade"

September 19th, 2006
Jennifer Burek Pierce, Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science
"From Baby Dolls to Babies in Their Caskets:
Motivating Adolescent Sexual & Reproductive Health in Early Twentieth Century France"

Presentations and Events 2005-2006

April 28, 2006
Martin S. Pernick, Ph.D. Professor of History, Associate Director of the Program in Society & Medicine, University of Michigan
Noon talk: "Bioethics and History"
R. Palmer Howard Dinner: "When Are You Dead? 250 Years of Debate over the Definition of Death"

March 28, 2006
Ed Holtum, Assistant Director, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences & Curator of the John Martin Rare Book Room
"Telemedicine in the 17th Century: A Glimpse into Sympathetic Healing"

February 21, 2006
Joseph A. Buckwalter, M.D., Professor, Head and Steindler Chair, Department of Orthopedics & Rehabilitation
"The Vienna Heritage of Iowa Orthopaedics"

January 24, 2006
Kathleen Hanson, R.N., Ph.D., College of Nursing
"Civil War Nursing"

December 6, 2005
Marilyn Olson, Clinical Pharmacist, UIHC
"Sick and Poor in Cedar County, Iowa: Local Government and the Poorhouse in the 1860s to 1880s"

November 15, 2005
Nancy Harris, RN, MNA, CRNA, College of Nursing
"Alice Magaw: Pioneer Nurse and Anesthetist"

October 25, 2005
Susan C. Lawrence, Ph.D.
"Iowa Physicians and Poverty: Caring for the Needy, 1900-1940"

September 27, 2006
William Hammonds, M.D., M.P.H., Professor, Department of Anesthesia
"The Life and Times of Crawford Long: The Ether Controversy"

Presentations and Events 1999-2005

 

April 20, 2005
Michael A. Apicella, M.D.
“Prevention of the Plague of the Spanish Lady:
The Development of the Influenza Vaccine”

March 31, 2005
A. J. Bogdan, M.D.
“Dr. L. Webster Fox (1853-1931): Philadelphia Ophthalmologist,
Chief Eagle of the Blackfoot Indians, and World Traveler”

 

October 14- 15, 2003
Professor Henry Friedlander
“Politics and Medicine in Nazi German”
“Physicians and Medicine in Nazi Germany”

 

April 25, 2003
Keith Wailoo, Ph.D.
R. Palmer Howard Dinner: “Reflections on Race and Cancer in America”

May 29, 2002
Kenneth Ludmerer, M.D.
R. Palmer Howard Dinner: “Reflections on American Medical Education and Practice”

November 27, 2001
Dr. John Kasik
"Development of Antibiotics at Oxford University"

October 30, 2001
Dr. Stanley Thompson
Cataract Surgery and Opthalmology

April 28, 2000
Richard Nelson, M.D. Executive Association Dean of the College of Medicine
R. Palmer Howard Dinner: “Medicine in Iowa: A Sesquicentennial Retrospective”

April 19, 2000
Ignacio Ponseti, M.D.
In Our Own Times – Orthopedic Surgery

March 22, 2000
Richard Caplan, M.D.
In Our Own Times – Dermatology

February 23, 2000
George Bedell, M.D.
In Our Own Times – Internal Medicine

January 25, 2000
Ian Smith, M.D.
In Our Own Times – Internal Medicine

December 9, 1999
James Clifton, M.D.
In Our Own Times – Internal Medicine

November 19, 1999
Johann Ehrenhaft, M.D.
In Our Own Times – Surgery

October 28, 1999
Paul Seebohm, M.D.
In Our Own Times – Internal Medicine

 

 

 

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