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Bullitt History of Medicine Club Lecture Schedule

Evening meetings begin at 5:30pm with light refreshments. Daytime meetings run from noon to 1:00pm, also with light refreshments.

Please note: The majority of meetings this year are scheduled for Noon.

Date/Location Speaker Subject
8 September 2015, 12:00pm
UNC Health Sciences Library
5th Floor Conference Room (#527)
Zachary P. Lane,
Attending Psychiatrist – Adult Acute Unit, Central Regional Hospital
Biological and Somatic Treatment of Severe Mental Illness Before Modern Times

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

27 October 2015, 12:00pm
MacNider Hall, Room 321
Jeremy A. Greene,
Associate Professor of Medicine and the History of Medicine,
Elizabeth Treide and A. McGehee Harvey Chair in the History of Medicine
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
On Call: Towards a Media History of Medicine
10 November 2015, 12:00pm
UNC Health Sciences Library
5th Floor Conference Room (#527)
Judith Tintinalli,
Professor and Chair Emeritus of Emergency Medicine,
UNC School of Medicine
Emergency Medicine: A Bold Idea

1 December 2015, 12:00pm
UNC Health Sciences Library
5th Floor Conference Room (#527)
Spencer Weig,
Clinical Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics (Retired),
UNC Department of Neurology
Henry Hun and His Pioneering Use of Algorithms in Early 20th Century Medical Education

25 January 2016, 5:30pm
UNC Health Sciences Library
5th Floor Conference Room (#527)
Susan Lederer,
Robert Turell Professor of History of Medicine and Bioethics,
Department of Medical History and Bioethics,
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Playing Doctor: The Origins of Toy Doctor and Nurse Kits

16 February 2016, 12:00pm
UNC Health Sciences Library
5th Floor Conference Room (#527)
Panelists:

Cedric M. Bright, MD, FACP

Assistant Dean, Admissions and Special Programs/Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of General Medicine & Clinical Epidemiology, UNC School of Medicine

Dr. George B. Brothers, MD

Chapel Hill Internal Medicine, UNC Physician’s Network/Board of Directors for Carolina Permanente Medical Group, and Chairman/Board of trustees for Durham County Hospital Corporation

Dr. Elaine Hart-Brothers, MD, MPH

Consulting Associate in the Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine
 
Consulting Associate in Community and Family Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine
 
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Maternal and Child Health, UNC Gillings School of Public Health
 
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, UNC Gillings School of Public Health
 
Board President, The Community Health Coalition, Inc.

 

African-American Physicians in Chapel Hill: A Panel Discussion

8 March 2016, 12:00pm
UNC Health Sciences Library
5th Floor Conference Room (#527)
Reginald D. Carter,
Historian Emeritus, Physician Assistant History Society,
Associate Clinical Professor Emeritus of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center

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

12 April 2016, 12:00pm
UNC Health Sciences Library
5th Floor Conference Room (#527)
Scott Nelson
2015 McLendon-Thomas Award Winner

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