Skip to main content

Bullitt History of Medicine Club / Trent History of Medicine Society
Joint Evening Lecture 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

Bullitt History of Medicine Club 2008/2009
Noon Seminar Schedule

Date/Location Speaker Subject
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
12:00 Noon
Health Sciences Library
5th Floor Conference Room (#527)
Ansley Herring Wegner
Research Historian, North Carolina Office of Archives and History
Phantom Pain: North Carolina’s Artificial Limbs Program for Confederate Amputees

Monday, November 17, 2008
12:00 Noon
Health Sciences Library
5th Floor Conference Room (#527)
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

Wednesday, January 21, 2009
12:00 Noon
Health Sciences Library
5th Floor Conference Room (#527)
Dr. Aldo Rustioni
Cell and Developmental Biology, UNC School of Medicine
The Neuron Doctrine of 1891 and the 1906 Nobel Award for Physiology or Medicine

Monday, April 6, 2009
12:00 Noon
Health Sciences Library
5th Floor Conference Room (#527)
Lisa Wiese,
Medical Student, UNC School of Medicine
Washington, D.C.: Understanding the Poverty-Health Link from an Historical Lens

Announcement (JPEG)

Last updated: 19 August 2011