2019/2020
Bullitt History of Medicine Club Lecture Schedule
Meetings typically run from 12:00pm to 1:00pm with a light lunch provided.
Bringing Big Data to Asylum Studies: Historical Possibilities, Ethical Challenges
Tuesday, September 3, 2019
12:00 p.m.
G-100 Bondurant Hall
Speakers:
Dr. Robert C. Allen, James Logan Godfrey Professor of American Studies and Co-Director of the Community Histories Workshop, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Sarah E. Almond, Assistant Director, Community Histories Workshop, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Artificial Hearts: A Controversial Medical Technology and Its Sensational Patient Cases from Haskell Karp to Dick Cheney
Tuesday, October 3, 2019
12:00 p.m.
2025 Bondurant Hall
Speaker:
Shelley McKellar, PhD, Hannah Professor in the History of Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
Anatomy Day Open House
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
12:00 p.m.
Fearrington Reading Room, Wilson Special Collections Library
Drop by to compare what you’ve seen in the gross anatomy lab with historical representations of human anatomy over the centuries. Materials are drawn from holdings at the Wilson Special Collections Library. You don’t want to miss this fun and educational open house event.
Disease and Social Restructuring: A Global Pandemic in Mao’s China
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
12:00 p.m.
18 MacNider Hall
Speaker:
Xiaoping Fang, Assistant Professor of History, Nanyang Technological University, and Fellow, National Humanities Center
To Feed or Not to Feed: Medical Reversal in Food Allergy Prevention
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
12:00 p.m.
18 MacNider Hall
Speaker:
Edward Iglesia, MD, MPH, Clinical Fellow in Allergy/Immunology, University of North Carolina Hospitals
Hermeneutics of Nature: Natural Theology and Early American Birth Medicine
TBD
Recorded virtual presentation
Speaker:
Jennifer Edwell, PhD Candidate, Department of English and Comparative Literature, UNC-Chapel Hill, and 2019 McLendon-Thomas Award Winner