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Please consider posting the following lecture announcement to interested students, faculty, staff, and other colleagues. A PDF version prints on legal size paper as a convenient flier: http://www.library.ucla.edu/biomed/his/medclass-april2006.pdf thanks, Russell Johnson UCLA Biomedical Library; and Neuroscience History Archives rjohnson@library.ucla.edu * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Tuesday, 11 April 2006, 6:00 p.m. UCLA Faculty Center "Capturing Movement Disorders, from Drawing to Digital Image" Geneviève Aubert, MD, PhD Professor of Neurology, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium Introduction by Jan-Christopher Horak, Ph.D. Adjunct Professor of Critical Studies/Moving Image Archives Studies, UCLA; Curator, Hollywood Entertainment Museum; and Editor, The Moving Image Movement disorders are neurological diseases characterized by distinctive static postures and deformities as well as a gamut of involuntary movements. For neurologists, reliance on visual observation remains an essential diagnostic step. It is not surprising, then, that medical communications concerning these neurological disorders have depended particularly on artistic, photographic, and cinematographic documents. The starting point of Dr. Aubert’s research was the discovery of the original nitrate films made by Arthur Van Gehuchten (1861-1914), professor of anatomy and neurology at the Catholic University of Louvain. Van Gehuchten was an avant-garde teacher, eager to adopt new visual aids. In 1905, he began to film neurological patients. He made extensive use of this technique to demonstrate clinical signs, illustrate neurological diseases, and document functional evolution following surgery. The unique collection of moving pictures he built for teaching purposes has miraculously survived, and serves as an important archive of neurological diseases and their manifestations prior to the advent of modern therapies. The original nitrate films (more than two hours long) have been restored by the Royal Belgian Film Archive, where they are the oldest Belgian films. Besides Van Gehuchten’s exceptional set of films, a few other iconographic documents in the field of neurological disorders will be highlighted. Drawings, sculptures, photographs and films illustrating chorea, dystonia, Parkinson Disease and parkinsonism—one of the most dramatic sequelae of encephalitis lethargica—will be discussed, along with key figures in these achievements including Charcot and Richer, Kleist, Van Bogaert, and Sacks. This program will begin at 6:00 pm in the UCLA Faculty Center, followed by wine & soft drinks, an exhibit of rare books, and conversation. There is no charge for the lecture, exhibit, and reception. An optional dinner with the speakers, at $22.00 per person, will take place in the Faculty Center about 7:30 pm. An ADVANCE RESERVATION is required for dinner; please bring a check made out to "UC Regents" to the lecture. To make a reservation or get more information, call the History & Special Collections Division of the Louise Darling Biomedical Library at (310) 825-6940. Dinner seating is limited, so please make dinner reservations by March 30th. An abridged form of a classic text related to the evening's lecture will be distributed to those persons who request it in advance. To request this related text (please note: the LECTURE itself is NOT recorded or transcribed) or for more information, send Russell Johnson [rjohnson@library.ucla.edu] an e-mail, including your name and address, with the words "Medical Classics: April 2006 Reading" in the subject line; or call the History & Special Collections Division at (310) 825-6940. # # # Save the date for the next Medical Classics Programs: May 23 Stanley Finger, Ph.D. "Benjamin Franklin and Medical Electricity" The Winter-Spring "History of Medicine and the Neurosciences" series of Medical Classics is co-sponsored by the UCLA Neuroscience History Archives http://www.neurosciencearchives.org # # # UCLA Programs in Medical Classics is a series of free presentations designed to enhance an appreciation of the links among famous medical writings, clinical practice, basic research, and humanistic scholarship. Six times a year these meetings bring together a convivial group of individuals of scholarly tastes--both from the community and from UCLA faculty, students, and staff--for a lecture and an opportunity to discuss and examine texts and topics that embody the history of advances in medicine, as well as the relations of medicine to broader cultural settings. http://www.library.ucla.edu/biomed/his/medicalclassics.html Printable PDF version of this announcement: http://www.library.ucla.edu/biomed/his/medclass-april2006.pdf ____________________________________________________________ STHC-L - Science, Technology, and Health Care Archives Forum STHC-L@lists.ucla.edu http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sthc-l STHC-L@lists.ucla.edu STHC-L Archives -- Main Index STHC-L Archives -- 2006 Message Index |