Past Speakers
The Bullitt History of Medicine Club was founded over 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. Or, to access and download all of the recordings from one place, please visit the Bullitt Club sub-section of the University's iTunes channel.
Below is an index of speaker names and topics, since September 2000. Use your browser's Find function to search for a particular speaker.
| Index of Past Speakers | ||
|---|---|---|
| Speaker | Date | Topic |
| Anderson, John J. B. | 10 January 2006 | History of Vitamin D in Nutrition |
| Baker, Jeffrey P. | 5 April 2011 | The Historical Context of the Autism Epidemic |
| Baker, Jeffrey P. | 14 November 2006 | Science Discovers, Man Adapts: Premature Babies on Display in American World Fairs, 1901-1939 |
| Beeber, Linda | 15 November 2011 | To Be One of the Boys: Aftershocks of the World War I Nursing Experience  |
| Belsches, Elvatrice Parker | 20 February 2007 | Above and Beyond: Celebrating the Legacies of the Leonard Graduates |
| Blackley, R. Jackson | 11 March 2003 | History of Mental Illness Services in North Carolina |
| Blazer, Dan G. | 14 September 2010 | Major Depression and the Death of Social Psychiatry |
| Bomback, Andrew | 10 October 2006 | Hans Selye: Calciphylaxsis and the Internist's Sense of Smell |
| Bowes, Watson | 13 February 2002 | What can we learn from Sir Thomas Browne? |
| Boyd, Greg | 9 March 2004 | Medieval Suggestions for Medical Malpractice Reform |
| Bradford, William | 13 April 2010 | Pathology at Duke: As I Remember It |
| Brown, Ivan W. | 23 September 2008 | The Sixty-Fifths: Famous Carolina Army Hospitals of WWI and WWII |
| Bryan, James A. | 12 December 2000 | The Odyssey of Polio |
| Campbell, Walter E. | 11 October 2005 | Whatever Duke Has, North Carolina Must Have: Reflections on the Academic Medical Centers at Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill |
| Carlson, Caroline | 11 December 2001 | Legacy of a Lifetime: The Life & Works of Frank Netter, M.D. |
| Carlson, Francine | 11 December 2001 | Legacy of a Lifetime: The Life & Works of Frank Netter, M.D. |
| Chenault, Elizabeth A. | 8 November 2005 | Charles Guiteau and the Insanity Defense |
| Clowse, Barbara | 29 September 2009 | Frances Sage Bradley: Her Biographer's Dilemma |
| Devine, Shauna | 15 November 2011 | To Be One of the Boys: Aftershocks of the World War I Nursing Experience |
| Dibble, Chris | 10 December 2009 | The Dead Ringer: Medicine, Poe, and the Fear of Burial |
| Dibble, Chris | 17 November 2008 | Edward Livingston Trudeau: The First American Physician-Scientist and the Fight against Tuberculosis |
| Dieckmann, Janna | 19 October 2009 | Home-Visiting by Nurses, Physicians, and Physical Therapists in North Carolina, 1950-1965 |
| Dieckmann, Janna | 10 February 2004 | What Makes a Medical Specialty? The Case of the Home Care Physician |
| Dreesen, Elizabeth | 20 September 2011 | Exploring the 19th Century Medical Record: Penmanship, Pictures and No ICD9 Codes |
| Dreesen, Elizabeth | 11 September 2007 | Susan Dimock, M.D.: First Woman Physician from North Carolina |
| English, Peter | 16 April 2008 | A History of Childhood Obesity in the United States |
| English, Peter | 11 December 2007 | A History of Childhood Obesity in the United States |
| Estroff, Sue | 14 April 2009 | Blemished Bodies and Persons: A Historical Perspective on Stigma |
| Fenn, Elizabeth | 21 October 2008 | Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82 |
| Fraser, James | 20 February 2008 | A Faceless Odyssey: Reconstructing Facial Wounds in the First World War |
| Gamble, Vanessa Northington | 9 December 2008 | "Without Health and Long Life All Else Fails": A History of African-American Efforts to Eliminate Racial Disparities in Health and Health Care |
| Gettes, Leonard S. | 10 April 2001 | Music and Medicine |
| Gilliland, Kurt | 8 December 2011 | Skeletons in our Closet: Anatomical Eponyms |
| Goodman, Phil | 13 November 2001 | Radiology, Discovery and the First Years |
| Granger, Noelle | 13 November 2007 | Leonardo da Vinci, Artist and Anatomist |
| Griffiths, Elizabeth | 12 September 2000 | The Hippocratic Oath: Searching for An Ideal |
| Halperin, Edward C. | 10 April 2012 | An 1841 Medical Bill for the Care of Enslaved African-Americans and the Banality of Evil |
| Halperin, Edward C. | 8 December 2009 | Historical Problems Posed by the 100th Anniversary of Flexner's Report on Medical Education |
| Halperin, Edward C. | 12 February 2008 | The Poor, the Black, and the Marginalized as the Source of Cadavers in United States Anatomical Education |
| Halperin, Edward C. | 13 December 2005 | The Jewish Problem In U.S. Medical Education, 1920-1950 |
| Hampton, Lee | 14 March 2006 | Albert Sabin and the Western Hemisphere Polio Eradication Campaign |
| Holder, Angela R. | 11 April 2006 | History of Reproductive Rights in the United States |
| Humphreys, Margaret | 30 March 2010 | The South's Secret Weapons: Disease, Environment and the Civil War |
| Humphreys, Margaret | 14 February 2006 | Immensely Human: The Health of Black Soldiers In the American Civil War |
| Humphreys, Margaret | 13 April 2004 | A Stranger to our Camps: The Absence of Typhus in the American Civil War |
| Jones, H. Michael | 9 February 2010 | Poverty, Pellagra, and the Tale of a Tar Heel |
| Jones, Mike | 9 January 2007 | Steeds, Trolleys, and Tin Lizzies: Medicine and the Progress of Wheels |
| Jones, Mike | 11 January 2005 | William Osler -- A Modern Introduction |
| Klemmer, Philip | 15 September 2009 | Jack London's Mysterious Malady |
| Klemmer, Philip | 10 October 2006 | Hans Selye: Calciphylaxsis and the Internist's Sense of Smell |
| Klintworth, Gordon | 13 October 2009 | The Lady in America's Most Famous Painting |
| Lederer, Susan E. | 16 February 2012 | "Fun in Bed": Entertaining Hospital Patients in 20th-Century America |
| Lesesne, Henry | 14 November 2000 | The Common Sense of Denis Burkitt of Lymphoma Fame: But He Truly Is The Fiber Man |
| Lindemann, Erika | 2 March 2011 | The 19th-Century Medical Education of UNC’s Dusenbery Brothers |
| Loehr, Walter | 9 October 2001 | Hernia Treatment in the Olden Days |
| Luce, Craig | 11 December 2001 | Legacy of a Lifetime: The Life & Works of Frank Netter, M.D. |
| Lyons, Gray | 8 April 2008 | The Art of Early Medical Illustrators |
| 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 |
| Mauskopf, Seymour | 10 March 2009 | Fritz Haber: A Cautionary Tale |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Newborg, Barbara C. | 8 March 2011 | Walter Kempner and the Rice Diet: Challenging Conventional Wisdom |
| Nussbaum, Abraham | 14 March 2006 | Profession and Faith: the National Guild of Catholic Psychiatrists, 1952-1968 |
| 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 |
| 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) |
| 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 | 14 February 2012 | The Federal Government's Efforts to Racially Integrate Hospitals Under Medicare, 1963-1967 |
| Reynolds, P. Preston (Canceled) | 11 January 2011 | The Federal Government's Efforts to Racially Integrate Hospitals Under Medicare, 1963-1967 |
| 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 |
| Runge, Marshall | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Thomas, Colin G. | 11 March 2008 | Alfred Bernard Nobel and Nobel Prize Winners in Surgery |
| Toledo, Alexander | 18 February 2010 | John Collins Warren: "Gentlemen, This Is No Humbug" |
| 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 |
| 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 |
Last updated: 26 November 2012
