Bullitt History of Medicine Club 2008/2009
Evening Meeting Schedule

Date/Location

Speaker

Subject

Tuesday, September 9, 2008, 5:30pm
DUMC Library
History of Medicine Reading Room (#102)

Dr. James R. Urbaniak, Orthopedic Surgery, Duke University

The Origin and History of the Handshake

Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 5:30pm
UNC Health Sciences Library
5th Floor Conference Room (#527)

Wendy Moore, Freelance Journalist & Author (England)

The Knife Man: The Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, Father of Modern Surgery

Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 5:30pm
DUMC Library
History of Medicine Reading Room (#102)

Dr. Ivan W. Brown, Jr.
James B. Duke Professor of Medicine
Emeritus
Duke University

The Sixty-Fifths: Famous Carolina Army Hospitals of WWI and WWII

Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 5:30pm
UNC Health Sciences Library
5th Floor Conference Room (#527)

Dr. Elizabeth Fenn, History, Duke University

Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82

Tuesday, November 11, 2008, 5:30pm
DUMC Library
History of Medicine Reading Room (#102)

Dr. Robert H. Wilkins, Professor Emeritus, Neurosurgery, Duke University

Barnes Woodhall: Man of Mystery

Tuesday, December 9, 2008, 5:30pm
UNC Health Sciences Library
5th Floor Conference Room (#527)

Dr. Vanessa Northington Gamble, 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.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009, 5:30pm
DUMC Library
History of Medicine Reading Room (#102)

Dr. Priscilla Wald, Professor of English, Duke University

Clones, Chimeras, and Other Creatures of the Biotech Revolution: Towards a Genomic Mythology

Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 5:30pm
UNC Health Sciences Library
5th Floor Conference Room (#527)

Dr. Todd Savitt, Medical Humanities, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University

Entering a "White" Profession: Black Physicians in 19th- and Early 20th-Century America

Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 5:30pm
DUMC Library
History of Medicine Reading Room (#102)

Dr. Seymour Mauskopf, Professor of History, Duke University

Fritz Haber: A Cautionary Tale

Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 5:30pm
UNC Health Sciences Library
5th Floor Conference Room (#527)

Dr. Sue Estroff, Social Medicine, UNC School of Medicine

Blemished Bodies and Persons: A Historical Perspective on Stigma

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Last Update:  18 September 2008