Bullitt History of Medicine Club lecture: Speaker: Xiaoping Fang, Assistant Professor of History, Nanyang Technological University, and Fellow, National Humanities Center This talk analyzes the dynamics between disease and social restructuring during the global cholera pandemic in Mao’s China between the three most radical political events of the 1960s: the Great Leap Forward, the Great … Read more
Bullitt Club Lecture Series Presents: Speaker: Edward Iglesia, MD, MPH, Clinical Fellow in Allergy/Immunology, University of North Carolina Hospitals Lecture information: This lecture will review the recent history of food allergy prevention. This will include reviewing the epidemiology of food allergy, the clinical science data supporting infant allergenic food, and controversies regarding population-based recommendations for food … Read more
Bullitt Club Lecture Series Presents-ONLINE MEETING Jennifer Edwell, PhD Candidate, Department of English and Comparative Literature, UNC-Chapel Hill, and 2019 McLendon-Thomas Award Winner Hermeneutics of Nature: Natural Theology and Early American Birth Medicine About the Bullitt History of Medicine Club Formed in 1953, the Bullitt History of Medicine Club is a student organization within the … Read more
Bullitt History of Medicine Club lecture: Not Born Yesterday: Anti-Cancer Activism in Early 20th Century Latin America Lecture information: This lecture focuses on the case of Peru to explain the emergence and decline of the earliest Latin American coalitions of state health agencies, physicians, and lay people to broadcast the early signs of cancer. It … Read more
Off the Shelf: Author Talk with Dan Royles Dan Royles discusses his book, “To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle Against HIV/AIDS” “To Make the Wounded Whole” offers the first history of African American AIDS activism in all of its depth and breadth. Dan Royles introduces a diverse constellation of activists, including medical … Read more
The History of Anti-Vaccination Bullitt Club Lecture Series Presents Elizabeth Salisbury MS2, UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine The History of Anti-Vaccination Registration link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1kMwiRCVRB-KOq58Hfs6PA Lecture information: This talk investigates the origins of the anti-vaccination movement, tracing its roots back to the smallpox vaccine. The anti-vaccination movement will be explored through three lenses: mandatory vaccinations and government … Read more
Join the Bullitt History of Medicine Club to sample the work of three current UNC School of Medicine students as they present their research in lightning talks. The talks will be followed by a Q&A session. This session will be presented via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Time: April 13, 2021 12:00 PM in Eastern Time … Read more
Please join the Bullitt History of Medicine Club for its November lecture: Title: History of Chagas Disease: Science and Health in Brazil Speaker: Simone Kropf Professor of History of Sciences and Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation Registration link: https://unc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UuFB5v3ZSoepiFQVfMjSaQ Lecture information: This lecture will explore the history of Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis), discovered by the physician Carlos Chagas in 1909 in a poor, rural area … Read more
Bullitt History of Medicine Club’s Spring 2022 lecture, presented via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Lecture: Diabetes and the American Century Speaker: Dr. Richard McKinley Mizelle, Jr. Associate Professor of History, University of Houston Time: February 1, 2022 12:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada) Registration link: https://unc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2g_NqlhAT9SdByvbYEuwvg Lecture information: Diabetes has played a key role in multiple … Read more
Bullitt History of Medicine Club’s Spring 2022 lecture, presented via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Lecture: On the Importance of History to Medicine, with Chinese Medicine as Exemplary Case Speaker: Dr. Nicole Elizabeth Barnes Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor, History, Duke University Time: April 5, 2022 12:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada) Registration link: https://unc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yAY7cqS9TQywb8I4D6sKfA Lecture … Read more
