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

Meetings begin at 5:30pm with light refreshments; presentations begin at 6:00pm.
Please note: Trent meetings will alternate between the old DUMC Library and Perkins Library

Date/Location Speaker Subject
20 September 2011, 12:00pm
UNC Health Sciences Library
5th Floor Conference Room (#527)
Elizabeth Dreesen, M.D.
Associate Chief of Trauma Surgery & Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Critical Care Surgery, UNC Dept. of Surgery

Note: Meeting time changed to 12 noon

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

11 October 2011, 5:30pm
Perkins Library
Room 111
Rare Book Room
Duke
Shauna Devine, PhD
Visiting Assistant Professor, History Department, Duke University
Science, Disease and Experimental Medicine: Gangrene and Erysipelas during the American Civil War, 1861-1865
15 November 2011, 5:30pm
UNC Health Sciences Library
5th Floor Conference Room (#527)
Linda Beeber, PhD, RN, CS
Frances Hill Fox Distinguished Professor, UNC School of Nursing
To Be One of the Boys: Aftershocks of the World War I Nursing Experience

6 December 2011, 5:30pm
Duke Medical Center Library
Reading Room (#102)
Francis A. Neelon, MD
Associate Professor Emeritus, Duke University
Caleb Parry and the Brief Life of Parry’s Disease
17 January 2012, 5:30pm
UNC Health Sciences Library
5th Floor Conference Room (#527)
David Weber, MD, MPH, MHA
Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, UNC School of Medicine, Professor of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, Associate Director
Infectious Diseases in the Movies: Fact or Fiction

14 February 2012, 5:30pm
Perkins Library
Room 111
Rare Book Room
Duke
P. Preston Reynolds, MD, PhD, FACP
Professor of General Medicine, Geriatrics and Palliative Care, Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities, University of Virginia
The Federal Government’s Efforts to Racially Integrate Hospitals under Medicare, 1963-1967
27 March 2012, 5:30pm
UNC Health Sciences Library
5th Floor Conference Room (#527)
Stephen Pemberton, PhD
Associate Professor, Federated Dept. of History, New Jersey Institute of Technology / Rutgers-Newark
Two Tales of Paradoxical Progress: How Hemophilia Became Manageable in the Twentieth Century (with Special Reference to Pioneering Medicine at UNC)

10 April 2012, 5:30pm
Duke Medical Center Library
Reading Room (#102)
Edward C. Halperin, MD, MA, FACR
Dean, School of Medicine, University of Louisville
An 1841 Medical Bill for the Care of Enslaved African-Americans and the Banality of Evil

Bullitt History of Medicine Club 2011/2012
Noon Seminar Schedule

Daytime meetings run from noon to 1:00pm, also with light refreshments.

Date/Location Speaker Subject
18 October 2011
12:00 Noon
UNC Health Sciences Library
5th Floor Conference Room (#527)
Sandy Smith-Nonini, MA, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, UNC at Chapel Hill
Behind the White Marches: El Salvador’s Radical Community Health Movement

8 December 2011
12:00 Noon
UNC Health Sciences Library
5th Floor Conference Room (#527)

Medical Biomolecular Research Building (MBRB) Room G202
Kurt Gilliland, PhD Assistant Professor &
Royce L. Montgomery, PhD Professor,
Dept. Cell and Developmental Biology, UNC School of Medicine

Note: Meeting location changed

Skeletons in our Closet: Anatomical Eponyms
16 February 2012
12:00 Noon
UNC Health Sciences Library
5th Floor Conference Room (#527)
Susan E. Lederer, MA, PhD
Robert Turell Professor of History of Medicine and Bioethics & Chair, Dept. of Medical History and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin – Madison
“Fun in Bed”: Entertaining Hospital Patients in 20th-Century America

17 April 2012
12:00 Noon
UNC Health Sciences Library
5th Floor Conference Room (#527)
Aldo Rustioni, MD
Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, UNC School of Medicine
The Neuron Doctrine and the Birth of American Neurology

Last updated: 21 November 2012