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

 

 

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