2020/2021
Bullitt History of Medicine Club Lecture Schedule
Meetings typically run from 12:00pm to 1:00pm with a light lunch provided.
Not Born Yesterday: Anti-Cancer Activism in Early 20th Century Latin America
Tuesday, September 15, 2020
12:00 p.m. EST
Speaker:
Raul Necochea, Associate Professor, Department of Social Medicine, UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine
View Anti-Cancer Activism PowerPoint slides.
Off the Shelf: Author Talk with Dan Royles
Thursday, October 15, 2020
5:30 p.m. EST
Dan Royles discusses his book, “To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle Against HIV/AIDS”
Speaker:
Dan Royles, Assistant Professor of History, Florida International University.
To order this book, visit uncpress.org or call 1-800-848-6224.
The History of Anti-Vaccination
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
12:00 p.m. EST
Speaker:
Elizabeth Salisbury, MS2, UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine
View History of Anti-Vaccination PowerPoint slides and History of Anti-Vaccination works cited document.
The Doctors and the Black Death: Reconsidering Expertise in an Age of Pandemic
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
5:00 p.m. EST
Speaker:
Dr. Brett Whalen, Associate Professor of History, UNC Chapel Hill
This talk was co-presented by the UNC School of Medicine Infectious Disease Interest Group.
Watch Reconsidering Expertise in an Age of PandemicDr. Whalen’s book, “Remembering the Black Death: Lessons from the Medieval Plague for the Modern Pandemic,” is available on amazon.com.
Student Lightning Talks
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
12:00 p.m. EST
Sample the work of current UNC School of Medicine students as they present their research in a lightning talk. Each presentation will be about 5 minutes, challenging participants to distill their work down to its essence. The talks will be followed by a Q&A at the end.
Speakers:
Katherine Kruse, Beyond the Sick Role: Finding Patient Identity and Agency Through Narrative Analysis of Oral Histories
Leslie Rowen, Meeting Patients in the Dorothea Dix State Hospital Archive: A Case Study
Linnea Westerkam, Access to Women’s Healthcare in 21st Century Ladakh: Addressing the Challenges Surrounding Cervical Cancer Prevention and the HPV Vaccine