Bullitt Club Lecture Series Presents: Not "Simply the Old-Fashioned Grip": The Impact of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic Dawne Lucas, Special Collections Librarian, Health Sciences Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Bullitt Club Lecture Series Presents Luis H. Toledo-Pereyra, Professor Emeritus, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, Michigan "Art and Medicine: Medical History in Diego Rivera's Art" All Bullitt Club lectures are free and open to the public.
Bullitt History of Medicine Club Lecture: James H. Jones, Distinguished Alumni Professor of History, Emeritus, at the University of Arkansas
Bullitt History of Medicine Club Lecture: Jonathan S. Jones, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Binghamton In the decades after the Civil War, the United States faced an epidemic of opiate addiction among Civil War veterans. Americans widely feared that opiate addiction among traumatized veterans was linked to the Civil War, and was dangerously … Read more
Michael J. Clark, PhD Candidate, Department of English and Comparative Literature, UNC-Chapel Hill and 2018 McLendon-Thomas Award Winner This talk will discuss how Andreas Vesalius increased access to human anatomy with the publication of De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem in 1543. By painstakingly designing his illustrations and the corresponding text to accurately represent what … Read more
Presented by: Peter Gilligan, Director of Clinical Microbiology, UNC-Chapel Hill Dr. Peter Gilligan is a professor of Microbiology-Immunology and Pathology-Laboratory Medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, and the Director of the Clinical Microbiology-Immunology Laboratories at the University of North Carolina Hospitals. He is a member of the Center for Infectious … Read more
Kurt Gilliland, PhD Assistant Dean of Curriculum and Evaluation, UNC School of Medicine/Associate Professor, Dept. of Cell Biology and Physiology, UNC School of Medicine Skeletons in our Closet: Anatomical Eponyms While many eponyms are no longer taught or used in medicine, certain structures in anatomy, embryology, histology, and neuroscience will always be better known by … Read more
Bringing Big Data to Asylum Studies: Historical Possibilities, Ethical Challenges Dr. Robert C. Allen, Director, Digital Innovation Lab, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Sarah E. Almond, Assistant Director, Community Histories Workshop, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Using material from the State Archives of North Carolina, Dr. Allen and Ms. Almond have … Read more
Artificial Hearts: A Controversial Medical Technology and Its Sensational Patient Cases from Haskell Karp to Dick Cheney Shelley McKellar, PhD, Hannah Professor in the History of Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada Today artificial hearts are a clinical reality after decades of contentious development. Former U.S. Vice President Dick … Read more
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. About the Bullitt History of Medicine Club The Bullitt History of … Read more
