Bullitt Club Speakers: 2000-1 to 2008-9
2008-2009
Wendy Moore
Freelance Journalist & Author (England)
The Knife Man: The Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, Father of Modern Surgery
Elizabeth Fenn,
Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History, Duke University
Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82
Vanessa Northrington
Gamble, M.D., Ph.D.
University Professor of Medical Humanities, George Washington University
"Without Health and Long Life All Else Fails": A History of African-American Efforts to Eliminate Racial Disparities in Health and Health Care.
Todd Savitt, Ph.D.
Medical Humanities, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University
Entering a "White" Profession: Black Physicians in 19th- and Early 20th-Century America
Sue Estroff, Ph.D.
Social Medicine, UNC School of Medicine
Blemished Bodies and Persons: A Historical Perspective on Stigma
Ansley Herring Wegner
Research Historian, North Carolina Office of Archives and History
Phantom Pain: North Carolina's Artificial Limbs Program for Confederate Amputees
Chris Dibble
MD/PhD Student, UNC School of Medicine; Winner of the 2008 McLendon-Thomas Award
Edward Livingston Trudeau: The First American Physician-Scientist and the Fight against Tuberculosis
Aldo Rustioni,
M.D.
Cell and Developmental Biology, UNC School of Medicine
The Neuron Doctrine of 1891 and the 1906 Nobel Award for Physiology or Medicine
Lisa Wiese
Medical Student, UNC School of Medicine
Washington, D.C.: Understanding the Poverty-Health Link from an
Historical Lens
2007-2008
Elizabeth Dreesen, M.D.
Clinical Assistant Professor, UNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Dept. of
Surgery
Susan Dimock, M.D.: First Woman Physician from North Carolina
Noelle Granger, Ph.D.
Professor, UNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Dept. of Cell &
Developmental Biology
Leonardo da Vinci, Artist and Anatomist
George F. Sheldon,
M.D., F.A.C.S.
Distinguished Professor, UNC School of Medicine, Department of Surgery
John Hunter and the American School of Surgery and Medicine
Colin G. Thomas, Jr.,
M.D.
Byah Thomason-Sanford Doxey
Professor of Surgery, UNC School of Medicine
William W. McLendon, M.D.
Professor Emeritus Pathology &
Laboratory Medicine
From "A Burlesque Upon Science" to National Leadership: Medical Education in North Carolina & at Chapel Hill
Christine Montross, M.D.
Writing as Reflection: On Being and Becoming a Doctor
James Fraser
UNC Medical Student
A Faceless Odyssey: Reconstructing Facial Wounds in the First World War
Peter
English, M.D., Ph.D.
Duke University
A History of Childhood Obesity in the United States
2006-2007
Phil Klemmer, M.D. and
Andrew Bomback, M.D.
UNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension
Hans Selye: Calciphylaxsis and the Internist's Sense of Smell
Frank Neelon, M.D.
Professor Emeritus, Duke University Medical Center, and Editor Emeritus,
North Carolina Medical Journal
The Doctors' Doctor: Eugene A. Stead, Jr., M.D.
Elvatrice Parker Belsches
Pharmacist, author, local researcher and lecturer (Richmond, Virginia)
Above and Beyond: Celebrating the Legacies of the Leonard Graduates
Jeanne Moskal, Ph.D.
UNC Department of English
Livingstone's Long Shadow: Women Medical Missionaries of the 1890s
2005-2006
Elizabeth A. Chenault, Ph.D.
Public Services Librarian, Rare Book Collection, Wilson Library, UNC-Chapel
Hill
Charles Guiteau and the Insanity Defense
John J.B. Anderson,
Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, UNC-Chapel Hill
History of Vitamin D in Nutrition
Margaret Humphreys,
M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, History and Associate Clinical Professor, Medicine, Duke
University
Immensely Human: The Health of Black Soldiers In the American Civil War
Lee Hampton
4th-Year Medical Student, UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine
Albert Sabin and the Western Hemisphere Polio Eradication Campaign
Abraham Nussbaum,
M.D.
Resident in Psychiatry, UNC-Chapel Hill
Profession and Faith: the National Guild of Catholic Psychiatrists, 1952-1968
2004-2005
Donald L. Madison,
M.D.
UNC Departments of Social Medicine, Family Medicine and Health Policy
Administration
Enhancing Medicine's Popular Image on Stage and Screen: 1933 and Beyond
Mike Jones, M.D.
Adjunct Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at UNC-Chapel Hill
William Osler -- A Modern Introduction
Todd L. Savitt, Ph.D.
Professor of History and Medical Ethics, Department of Medical Humanities,
East Carolina University School of Medicine
Entering a “White” Profession: Black Physicans in the New South, 1880-1920
Howard Reisner, Ph.D.
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
Plague as Muse: Art, Text, Science
William McLendon, M.D.
Professor Emeritus of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UNC School of
Medicine
Bettering the Health of North Carolinians: Dr. Reece Berryhill and the UNC School of Medicine
2003-2004
George F. Sheldon,
M.D.
Zack D. Owens Distinguished Professor of Surgery, Past Chairman of the
Department of Surgery, UNC School of Medicine
John Hunter and the American School of Surgery
Barry F. Saunders,
M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Social Medicine, UNC School of Medicine
Slices on Display: Histories of Sectional Imaging
K. Patrick Ober, M.D.
Professor of Internal Medicine (Endocrinology and Metabolism), Wake Forest
University School of Medicine
Mark Twain's Critcism of Medicine in the US
Frank C. Wilson, M.D.
Kenan Professor and Chief Emeritus of
Orthopedics, UNC School of Medicine
The Death of Thomas Wolfe: In Search of the Tubercle Bacillus
J. Lee Sedwick, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Surgery, East Carolina University School of Medicine
Alexis Carrel and Lindberg—Do You Believe in Miracles?
Janna Dieckmann, Ph.D., R.N.
Assistant Professor, UNC-CH School of Nursing
What Makes a Medical Specialty? The Case of the Home Care Physician
S. Gregory Boyd, M.D.
UNC SOM graduate, J.D. candidate
Medieval Suggestions for Medical Malpractice Reform
Margaret Humphreys,
M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History, Duke University
A Stranger to our Camps: The Absence of Typhus in the American Civil War
2001-2002
Daniel Nelson
Evolution of Human Research Subjects' Protection in the 20th Century: From Dachau to Tuskegee to Philadelphia
Phil Goodman, M.D.
Radiology, Discovery and the First Years
Francine Carlson,
Caroline Carlson, Marshall Runge, M.D., and Craig Luce
Legacy of a Lifetime: The Life & Works of Frank Netter, M.D.
George F. Sheldon,
M.D.
Zack D. Owens Distinguished Professor of Surgery, Past Chairman of the
Department of Surgery, UNC School of Medicine
Hugh Williamson; the Carolina Franklin
Watson Bowes, M.D.
What Can We Learn from Sir Thomas Browne?
Charles Roberts, M.D.
The Thomas Jefferson Diet
R. Jackson Blackley, M.D.
Past North Carolina Director of Mental Health
History of Mental Illness Services in North Carolina
James Scatliff, M.D.
UNC Emeritus Professor of Radiology
My Father's Medicine: Chicago 1910-1970
2000-2001
Elizabeth Griffiths
UNC Medical Student, Winner of the Brodie
Award for a Student Essay in Medical History
The Hippocratic Oath: Searching for an Ideal
William Pollitzer, Ph.D.
Professor of Anatomy
Medicine in The Low Country: A Story of the Gullah
Henry Lesesne, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
The Common Sense of Denis Burkitt of Lymphoma Fame: But He Truly Is The Fiber Man
James A. Bryan, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, UNC
The Odyssey of Polio
Charles S. Roberts,
M.D.
Assistant Professor of Surgery
William Carlos Williams: His Poetry and His Practice
James H. Scatliff, M.D.
Professor of Radiology and Department Chairman Emeritus, UNC School of
Medicine
J.B. Murphy of
Chicago and Surgery for Appendicitis
Daniel Nelson
Associate Professor and Director Office of Human Research Ethics, UNC School
of Medicine
Evolution of Human Research Subjects' Protection in the 20th Century: From Dachau to Tuskegee to Philadelphia
Leonard S. Gettes, M.D.
Henry A. Foscue Distinguished Professor of
Cardiology
Music and Medicine