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The Bullitt History of Medicine Club was founded more than fifty years ago, and in that time has welcomed a wide variety of speakers. Some years were filled with talks, other saw barely a handful of presentations. Records for the early years are scattered and not always complete, so we do not know the name of every speaker or the topic of every talk.

In more recent years, with renewed student and faculty interest in the History of Medicine, and with a greater awareness that the Club itself is of historical importance, more care has been taken to preserve the Bullitt Club’s “Proceedings.” In addition, since the Fall 2008 semester, the speakers have graciously granted permission for the Bullitt Club to record and make available the audio portion of their talks.

Links to these MP3 audio recordings, as well as links to assorted other supporting documentation and illustrations, can be found in the associated yearly schedules to the left.

From 2005 to 2012, the Bullitt History of Medicine Club participated in a collaborative speaker series with Duke University’s Trent History of Medicine Society, with monthly lecture locations alternating between the two schools.

Below is an index of speaker names and topics, since September 2000. Use your browser’s Find function to search for a particular speaker.

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Alexander, Travis

AIDS and the Americans with Disabilities Act at Quarter Century
19 September 2017


Allen, Robert C.

Bringing Big Data to Asylum Studies: Historical Possibilities, Ethical Challenges
3 September 2019


Almond, Sarah E.

Bringing Big Data to Asylum Studies: Historical Possibilities, Ethical Challenges
3 September 2019


Anderson, John J. B.

History of Vitamin D in Nutrition
10 January 2006


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Baker, Jeffrey P.

The Historical Context of the Autism Epidemic
5 April 2011

Science Discovers, Man Adapts: Premature Babies on Display in American World Fairs, 1901-1939
14 November 2006


Barnes, Nicole

On the Importance of History to Medicine, with Chinese Medicine as Exemplary Case
5 April 2022

Download Dr. Barnes’ award-winning, open-access book, “Intimate Communities: Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China, 1937-1945” (Oakland: University of California Press, 2018).


Barr, Justin

Once You Pop, You Can’t Stop (Bleeding): Aortic Aneurysms and their Management from the 18th to the 21st Century
8 November 2016


Beeber, Linda

To Be One of the Boys: Aftershocks of the World War I Nursing Experience
15 November 2011


Belsches, Elvatrice Parker

Above and Beyond: Celebrating the Legacies of the Leonard Graduates
20 February 2007


Blackley, R. Jackson

History of Mental Illness Services in North Carolina
11 March 2003


Blazer, Dan G.

Major Depression and the Death of Social Psychiatry
14 September 2010


Bomback, Andrew

Hans Selye: Calciphylaxsis and the Internist’s Sense of Smell
10 October 2006


Bowes, Watson

What can we learn from Sir Thomas Browne?
13 February 2002


Boyd, Greg

Medieval Suggestions for Medical Malpractice Reform
9 March 2004


Bradford, William

Pathology at Duke: As I Remember It
13 April 2010


Braun, Lundy

Ordering Bodies: Race, Labor, and Vital Capacity Measurements
9 April 2013


Bright, Cedric M

African-American Physicians in Chapel Hill: A Panel Discussion
16 February 2016


Brothers, George B.

16 February 2016
African-American Physicians in Chapel Hill: A Panel Discussion


Brown, Ivan W.

The Sixty-Fifths: Famous Carolina Army Hospitals of WWI and WWII
23 September 2008


Bryan, James

September 2, 1952: A Historical Perspective on the Opening of the First Teaching Hospital at UNC and the Clinical Advances Since Then
26 March 2013


Bryan, James A.

The Odyssey of Polio
12 December 2000


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Campbell, Walter E.

Whatever Duke Has, North Carolina Must Have: Reflections on the Academic Medical Centers at Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill
11 October 2005


Carlson, Caroline

Legacy of a Lifetime: The Life & Works of Frank Netter, M.D.
11 December 2001


Carter, Reginald D.

Physician Assistants: A Social Innovation in the Delivery of Health Care Services
8 March 2016


Chenault, Elizabeth A.

Charles Guiteau and the Insanity Defense
8 November 2005


Clark, Michael J.

The Fabrica, the Epitome, and Issues of Accessibility in Early Modern Anatomy
26 February 2019
audio


Clowse, Barbara

Frances Sage Bradley: Her Biographer’s Dilemma
29 September 2009


Conis, Elena

Vaccination and Its Historical Discontents: The Long-Term View on Skepticism and ‘Personal Belief Exemptions’
A Merrimon Lecture Cosponsored with the UNC Center for Bioethics
9 September 2022


Crowe, Nathan

Cloning for a Cause: An Early History of Nuclear Transplantation in Science and Society
27 September 2016


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Devine, Shauna

To Be One of the Boys: Aftershocks of the World War I Nursing Experience
15 November 2011


Dibble, Chris

The Dead Ringer: Medicine, Poe, and the Fear of Burial
10 December 2009

Edward Livingston Trudeau: The First American Physician-Scientist and the Fight against Tuberculosis
17 November 2008


Dieckmann, Janna

Home-Visiting by Nurses, Physicians, and Physical Therapists in North Carolina, 1950-1965
19 October 2009

What Makes a Medical Specialty? The Case of the Home Care Physician
10 February 2004


Dreesen, Elizabeth

Exploring the 19th Century Medical Record: Penmanship, Pictures and No ICD9 Codes
20 September 2011

Susan Dimock, M.D.: First Woman Physician from North Carolina
11 September 2007


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Elbogen, Eric

The History of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: Diagnosis and Treatment
5 November 2013


English, Peter

A History of Childhood Obesity in the United States
16 April 2008

A History of Childhood Obesity in the United States
11 December 2007


Estroff, Sue

Blemished Bodies and Persons: A Historical Perspective on Stigma
14 April 2009


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Fang, Xiaoping

Disease and Social Restructuring: A Global Pandemic in Mao’s China
12 January 2020


Farina, Matthew

Dr. Mary Walker: The Little Lady in Pants
11 December 2012


Fenn, Elizabeth

Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82
21 October 2008


Fraser, James

A Faceless Odyssey: Reconstructing Facial Wounds in the First World War
20 February 2008


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Gala, Gary J.

A Very Fine Wind: Descartes, Harvey and the Motion of the Heart
15 January 2013


Gamble, Vanessa Northington

“Without Health and Long Life All Else Fails”: A History of African-American Efforts to Eliminate Racial Disparities in Health and Health Care
9 December 2008


Gettes, Leonard S.

Music and Medicine
10 April 2001


Gilligan, Peter

Infections in Lung Transplant Recipient: A Whole New World for a Microbiologist
2 April 2019
audio


Gilliland, Kurt

Skeletons in our Closet: Anatomical Eponyms
8 December 2011
16 April 2019
audio


Goldberg, Daniel S.

Clio in the Clinic: What the History of Pain Without Lesion in 19th Century America Reveals About Present Chronic Pain Management
15 October 2013


Goodman, Phil

Radiology, Discovery and the First Years
13 November 2001


Goodson, Ernest J.

African-Americans in Orthodontics
14 February 2017


Granger, Noelle

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist and Anatomist
13 November 2007


Greene, Jeremy A.

On Call: Towards a Media History of Medicine
27 October 2015


Griffiths, Elizabeth

The Hippocratic Oath: Searching for An Ideal
12 September 2000


Guerrini, Anita

How to Make a Skeleton: The Emergence of the Human Skeleton as a Commodity, 1500-1800
22 March 2017


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Halperin, Edward C.

An 1841 Medical Bill for the Care of Enslaved African-Americans and the Banality of Evil
10 April 2012

Historical Problems Posed by the 100th Anniversary of Flexner’s Report on Medical Education
8 December 2009

The Poor, the Black, and the Marginalized as the Source of Cadavers in United States Anatomical Education
12 February 2008

The Jewish Problem In U.S. Medical Education, 1920-1950
13 December 2005


Hampton, Lee

Albert Sabin and the Western Hemisphere Polio Eradication Campaign
14 March 2006


Harrell, Sampson E.

Shifting Tides: The Early Minority Presence at UNC SOM and Minority Health Disparities (of UNC and the US)
12 February 2013


Hart-Brothers, Elaine

African-American Physicians in Chapel Hill: A Panel Discussion
16 February 2016


Holder, Angela R.

History of Reproductive Rights in the United States
11 April 2006


Hollingsworth, Robert L.

The Physician Assistant: My Life in the Profession
26 September 2017


Holt, Terrence (Canceled)

The Perfect Code from Granta 120 / Q&A session
October 2012


Humphreys, Margaret

“Of Wards and War”: The Importance of Good (and Bad) Medical Care in the American Civil War
28 October 2014

The South’s Secret Weapons: Disease, Environment and the Civil War
30 March 2010

Immensely Human: The Health of Black Soldiers In the American Civil War
14 February 2006

A Stranger to our Camps: The Absence of Typhus in the American Civil War
13 April 2004


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Iglesia, Edward

To Feed or Not to Feed: Medical Reversal in Food Allergy Prevention
25 February 2020
audio


Inrig, Stephen

North Carolina’s HIV Epidemic in Historical Context
19 April 2013


Isaacs, Melissa

Using the New York Academy of Medicine Collection of International Medical Theses for Research
17 April 2018


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Jensen, Chris

“And Polio Was a Nightmare”: Polio, UNC-Chapel Hill, And the North Carolina Memorial Hospital
7 April 2015


Johnson, Taylor

Using the New York Academy of Medicine Collection of International Medical Theses for Research
17 April 2018


Jones, James H.

Bad Blood: Revisiting the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
30 September 2018


Jones, Jonathan

The Civil War and Opiate “Insanity”
4 December 2018
audio


Jones, Mike

Poverty, Pellagra, and the Tale of a Tar Heel
9 February 2010

Steeds, Trolleys, and Tin Lizzies: Medicine and the Progress of Wheels
9 January 2007

William Osler — A Modern Introduction
11 January 2005


Jones, Rebecca

Willem Kolff: Physician, Humanitarian, Visionary
18 September 2018
audio


Jones, Susan

The Impact of the French University System on Medical Education
18 September 2018


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Katz, Laurence

The History of Reanimatology (Resuscitation Medicine)
2 December 2014


Klass, Perri

Driving Down Infant and Child Mortality: Victories, Dilemmas, and Persistent Disparities
A Merrimon Lecture Cosponsored with the UNC Center for Bioethics
3 November 2022


Klemmer, Philip

Jack London’s Mysterious Malady
15 September 2009

Hans Selye: Calciphylaxsis and the Internist’s Sense of Smell
10 October 2006


Klintworth, Gordon

The Lady in America’s Most Famous Painting
13 October 2009


Kropf, Simone

History of Chagas Disease: Science and Health in Brazil
18 October 2021


Kruse, Katherine

Beyond the Sick Role: Finding Patient Identity and Agency Through Narrative Analysis of Oral Histories
13 April 2021


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Lane, Zachary P.

Biological and Somatic Treatment of Severe Mental Illness Before Modern Times
8 September 2015

Warning: videos in slides show graphic medical procedures. Viewer discretion is advised.


Lederer, Susan E.

“Fun in Bed”: Entertaining Hospital Patients in 20th-Century America
16 February 2012

Playing Doctor: The Origins of Toy Doctor and Nurse Kits
25 January 2016


Lesesne, Henry

The Common Sense of Denis Burkitt of Lymphoma Fame: But He Truly Is The Fiber Man
14 November 2000


Lindemann, Erika

The 19th-Century Medical Education of UNC’s Dusenbery Brothers
2 March 2011


Loehr, Walter

Hernia Treatment in the Olden Days
9 October 2001


Lucas, Dawne

Tour of Special Collections at the Health Sciences Library
21 January 2014

Not “Simply the Old-Fashioned Grip”: The Impact of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
20 March 2018

 


Luce, Craig

Legacy of a Lifetime: The Life & Works of Frank Netter, M.D.
11 December 2001


Ludington, Charles

Medicinal Uses of Wine in the Long Eighteenth Century
28 April 2015


Lyons, Gray

The Art of Early Medical Illustrators
8 April 2008


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Index of Past Speakers
Speaker Date Topic
Madison, Donald L. 14 December 2004 Enhancing Medicine’s Popular Image on Stage and Screen: 1933 and Beyond
Mann-Stadt, Chailee 13 January 2011 Drs. Grace Dewey and Josephine Milligan: 19th Century Women Become 20th Century Physicians, Educators and Activists
Marble, Sanders W. 30 September 2014 Mending The Casualties of WWI: The Army Rehabilitates The Wounded, 1918-1920 
Mauskopf, Seymour 10 March 2009 Fritz Haber: A Cautionary Tale
McKellar, Shelley 3 October 2019 Artificial Hearts: A Controversial Medical Technology and Its Sensational Patient Cases from Haskell Karp to Dick Cheney 
McLendon, William W. 26 March 2013 September 2, 1952: A Historical Perspective on the Opening of the First Teaching Hospital at UNC and the Clinical Advances Since Then
McLendon, William W. 19 September 2007 From “A Burlesque Upon Science” to National Leadership: Medical Education in North Carolina & at Chapel Hill
McLendon, William W. 12 April 2005 50th Anniversary of Bullitt Club Celebration
McLendon, William W. 12 April 2005 Bettering the Health of North Carolinians: Reece Berryhill and the UNC School of Medicine
McVaugh, Michael 10 November 2009 Arabic into Latin (Or, Why Medical Schools Got Started)
McVaugh, Michael 13 March 2007 Foxglove: Who Really Discovered It?
Meyer, William S. 7 December 2010 On the Diagnosis and “Treatment” of Homosexuality: When Prejudice Masquerades As Science
Miller, Craig 7 November 2017 A Time for All Things: The Life of Michael E. DeBakey
Mizelle, Richard M., Jr. 1 February 2022 Diabetes and the American Century
Montgomery, Royce L. 8 December 2011 Skeletons in our Closet: Anatomical Eponyms
Montross, Christine 16 October 2007 Writing as Reflection: On Being and Becoming a Doctor
Moore, Wendy 23 September 2008 The Knife Man: The Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, Father of Modern Surgery
Moskal, Jeanne 10 April 2007 Livingstone’s Long Shadow: Women Medical Missionaries of the 1890s
Nash, Florence 8 March 2011 Walter Kempner and the Rice Diet: Challenging Conventional Wisdom
Necochea, Raúl 16 November 2010 The International Planned Parenthood Federation in Cold War Peru
Necochea, Raúl 13 February 2018 Therapeutic Outcomes Beyond a Cure: Leprosy in 1940s-1960s U.S.
Necochea, Raúl 15 September 2020 Not Born Yesterday: Anti-Cancer Activism in Early 20th Century Latin America
Neelon, Francis A. 6 December 2011 Caleb Parry and the Brief Life of Parry’s Disease
Neelon, Francis A. 9 October 2007 Stead at Duke, or Life in the Days of the Dinosaurs
Neelon, Francis A. 12 December 2006 The Doctors’ Doctor: Eugene A. Stead, Jr., M.D
Nelson, Daniel 11 September 2001 Evolution of Human Research Subjects’ Protection in the 20th Century: From Dachau to Tuskegee to Philadelphia
Nelson, Daniel 13 March 2001 Evolution of Human Research Subjects’ Protection in the 20th Century: From Dachau to Tuskegee to Philadelphia
Nelson, Scott 12 April 2016

Snatching Bodies, Making Doctors: Stealing black corpses for medical education in the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American South

Netter, Francine Mary 22 April 2014 Medicine’s Michelangelo: The Life and Art of Frank H. Netter, M.D.
Newborg, Barbara C. 8 March 2011 Walter Kempner and the Rice Diet: Challenging Conventional Wisdom
Ning, Angela 18 April 2017 Christine Jorgensen Walked the Walk, But Did She Talk the Talk? A Look into Trans History  
Nussbaum, Abraham M. 14 March 2006 Profession and Faith: the National Guild of Catholic Psychiatrists, 1952-1968
Nussbaum, Abraham M. 1 March 2017 Archie, Ed, and Dean: How Carolina Basketball Can Fix Healthcare  
Ober, K. Patrick 11 November 2003 Mark Twain’s Critcism of Medicine in the US
Otey, Carol 22 April 2010 Oral Contraception: From Ancient Plant Extracts to the Birth of the Pill
Owen-Smith, Brian 19 October 2010 Benjamin Franklin and Medicine
Peck, Sheldon 13 November 2012 The Modern Value of Early Writings in Medicine and Dentistry
Pemberton, Stephen 27 March 2012 Two Tales of Paradoxical Progress: How Hemophilia Became Manageable in the Twentieth Century (with Special Reference to Pioneering Medicine at UNC)
Phelps, Janey R. 25 February 2014 History of Pediatric Pain: To Treat or Not to Treat, That was the Question
Pinkerton, Jerry 8 April 2014 Written in Stone: the story of the 1918 flu epidemic as told by cemetery stones in Wilkes County
Pollitzer, William 10 October 2000 Medicine in The Low Country: A Story of the Gullah
Reisner, Howard 8 March 2005 Plague as Muse: Art, Text, Science
Reynolds, P. Preston (Canceled) 11 January 2011 The Federal Government’s Efforts to Racially Integrate Hospitals Under Medicare, 1963-1967
Reynolds, P. Preston 14 February 2012 The Federal Government’s Efforts to Racially Integrate Hospitals Under Medicare, 1963-1967
Rich, Preston B. 30 September 2013 The Saving Place: UNC’s response to the Hurricane Katrina Disaster
Roberts, Charles S. 10 December 2002 The Thomas Jefferson Diet
Roberts, Charles S. 9 January 2001 William Carlos Williams: His Poetry and His Practice
Roberts, Samuel K. 1 February 2011 Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation
Rowen, Leslie 13 April 2021 Meeting Patients in the Dorothea Dix State Hospital Archive: A Case Study
Royles, Dan 15 October 2020 Off the Shelf: Author Talk with Dan Royles Watch
Runge, John 24 March 2015 Epidemic Trials on Person and Place: Disease in the Industrializing American South
Runge, Marschall 11 December 2001 Legacy of a Lifetime: The Life & Works of Frank Netter, M.D.
Rustioni, Aldo 17 April 2012 The Neuron Doctrine and the Birth of American Neurology
Rustioni, Aldo 21 January 2009 The Neuron Doctrine of 1891 and the 1906 Nobel Award for Physiology or Medicine
Salisbury, Elizabeth 17 November 2020 The History of Anti-Vaccination
Saunders, Barry F. 14 October 2003 Slices on Display: Histories of Sectional Imaging
Savitt, Todd L. 10 February 2009 Entering a “White” Profession: Black Physicians in 19th- and Early 20th-Century America
Savitt, Todd L. 8 February 2005 Entering a ‘White’ Profession: Black Physicians in the New South, 1880-1920
Scatliff, James H. 8 April 2003 My Father’s Medicine: Chicago 1910-1970
Scatliff, James H. 13 February 2001 J.B. Murphy of Chicago and Surgery for Appendicitis
Schrier, Robert 19 September 2012 20th Century Presidents and Their Maladies
Sedwick, J.Lee 13 January 2004 Alexis Carrel and Lindberg – Do You Believe in Miracles?
Sheldon, George F. 15 January 2008 John Hunter and the American School of Surgery and Medicine
Sheldon, George F. 16 September 2003 John Hunter and the American School of Surgery
Sheldon, George F. 8 January 2002 Hugh Williamson; the Carolina Franklin
Smith-Nonini, Sandy 18 October 2011 Behind the White Marches: El Salvador’s Radical Community Health Movement
Streeter, Carrie 18 October 2021 Mind-Body Medicine and Black Women’s Clubs in the Era of Jim Crow
Thomas, Colin G. 11 March 2008 Alfred Bernard Nobel and Nobel Prize Winners in Surgery
Tintinalli, Judith 10 November 2015 Emergency Medicine: A Bold Idea
Tintinalli, Judith 30 August 2016 International Aspects of Emergency Medicine  
Toledo, Alexander 18 February 2010 John Collins Warren: “Gentlemen, This Is No Humbug”
Tomes, Nancy 1 February 2023 “Panic in the Streets”: Historical reflections on fear-based media messaging during acute public health crises. References for “Panic in the Streets”
Tousignant, Noemi 3 October 2017 Globalizing Measles in 1960s West Africa
Urbaniak, James R. 9 September 2008 The Origin and History of the Handshake
Wailoo, Keith 19 January 2010 Over-Prescribed / Under-Medicated: The History and Cultural Politics of Pain Medicine in America
Wald, Priscilla 13 January 2009 Clones, Chimeras, and Other Creatures of the Biotech Revolution: Towards a Genomic Mythology
Weber, David 17 January 2012 Infectious Diseases in the Movies: Fact or Fiction
Wegner, Ansley Herring 17 September 2008 Phantom Pain: North Carolina’s Artificial Limbs Program for Confederate Amputees
Weig, Spencer 1 December 2015 Henry Hun and His Pioneering Use of Algorithms in Early 20th Century Medical Education  
Werlinich, Ashley 17 April 2018 Remedies Against the Infection: Freedom of Movement, Printed Invectives, and the Defense of Reputation in 17th century plague outbreaks
Westerkam, Linnea 13 April 2021 Access to Women’s Healthcare in 21st Century Ladakh: Addressing the Challenges Surrounding Cervical Cancer Prevention and the HPV Vaccine
Wiese, Lisa 6 April 2009 Poverty and Health in the District of Columbia
Wilkins, Robert H. 11 November 2008 Barnes Woodhall: Man of Mystery
Wilson, Frank C. 9 December 2003 The Death of Thomas Wolfe: In Search of the Tubercle Bacillus
Wilson, Ruby L. 9 November 2010 Selected Duke University Medical Center Reminiscences, 1955-1984
Whalen, Brett 23 February 2021 The Doctors and the Black Death: Reconsidering Expertise in an Age of Pandemic