Historia Medica Lecture Series
The Washington University School of Medicine’s Bernard Becker Medical Library presents a twice-yearly lecture series on the history of medicine, Historia Medica. The spring lectures are sponsored by the Estelle Brodman Lecture Fund. All lectures are co-sponsored by the Medical Humanities & Social Sciences group in the Washington University School of Arts & Sciences.
Lectures are held in the Kenton King Center, 7th floor, Bernard Becker Medical Library. A reception follows all lectures.
Past speakers include:
| Caroline Hillard | “Realdo Colombo and Michelangelo: Anatomy Lessons from Renaissance Rome” | April 2008 |
| Rebecca Messbarger, Ph.D. | “Theatrum Corporis: Pope Benedict XIV’s Wax Musuem of Human Anatomy” | November 2007 |
| Thomas A. Woolsey, M.D. | “Seeing Ideas: Insight from Interplay Between Artists, Physicians & Scientists” | April 2007 |
| Lewis L. Wall, M.D., Ph.D. | “Did J. Marion Sims Deliberately Addict His First Fistula Patients to Opium?” | November 2006 |
| Marjorie Lorch, PhD | “Eighteenth Century Perspectives on Language, Mind and Brain from the Writings of Jonathan Swift” | April 2006 |
| Michael A. Flannery | “Civil War Pharmacy” | November 2005 |
| Stanley Finger, Ph.D. | “Benjamin Franklin: Pioneer of Medical Electricity” | April 2005 |
| Robert Frank, Jr., Ph.D. | “Nobelists and the Neurosciences at Washington University, 1918-1944” | November 2004 |
| Conevery Bolton Valencius, Ph.D. | “Bad Airs, Good Waters, and Healthy Places: Health and Environment in the Nineteenth Century West” | March 2004 |
| James Whorton, Ph.D. | “From Cultism to CAM: The Rise of Alternative Medicine” | October 2003 |
| Walton O. Schalick III, M.D., Ph.D. | “Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones: Opiates, Pain, and Professional Medicine in the Middle Ages” | April 2003 |
| Shelley McKellar, Ph.D. | “Artificial Hearts: Technology and Organ Replacement in Twentieth Century Medicine” | October 2002 |
| Kenneth Ludmerer, M.D., Ph.D. | “The American Medical Student: a History” | March 2002 |
| Jonathon Erlen, Ph.D. | “Human Experimentation in Twentieth Century American Medicine” | October 2001 |
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