Past Speakers
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
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
Gilliland, Kurt
Skeletons in our Closet: Anatomical Eponyms
8 December 2011
16 April 2019
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
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
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
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 | ||
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| 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 |
| Mizelle, Richard M., Jr. | 1 February 2022 | Reshaping the Great Migration and Public Health in the South.
A special opening and keynote to the New Scholarship on the US South: A Wilson Library Fellows Symposium |
| 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 |
| Necochea, Raúl | 5 September 2023 | Development as Gender Equity: Pan-American Women’s Advocacy and Cancer Control |
| 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 |