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Please distribute to colleagues and friends: THE ARCHITECTURE OF HEALING An International Conference at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, celebrating the opening of the new Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center Friday - Saturday, November 16 - 17, 2007 Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium, UCLA 635 Charles E. Young Drive South website: http://aohucla.wordpress.com printable PDF version of Program and Map: http://aohucla.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/aoh-program.pdf printable PDF version of Registration Form: http://aohucla.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/aoh-regform.pdf Registration ($30; free for students who will be enrolled in degree- granting institutions for the Fall 2007 quarter/semester) includes the conference, coffee breaks, library reception, boxed lunches on Friday and Saturday, and tour of the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. Tours will be available only to registered attendees wearing official conference name badges. Advance registration is required. Since this is a low registration fee, no refunds will be granted if an individual cancels his or her attendance. In the event the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center is unavailable for guided tours, no refunds will be granted. The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA reserves the right to cancel the entire program, in which case a full refund will be granted. Friday morning, November 16 Welcome Gene D. Block, Ph.D. Chancellor, UCLA THE ORIGINS OF THE HOSPITAL EARLY CHRISTIAN HOSPITALS: CARING AND CURING Peregrine Horden, Ph.D. Professor of Medieval History, Royal Holloway College, University of London, UK BIMARISTAN, THE ISLAMIC HOSPITAL: INNOVATION AND TRADITION Peter E. Pormann, Ph.D. Wellcome Trust Lecturer, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Warwick, UK Commentary, Discussion and Audience Questions. Claudia Rapp, Ph.D. Professor of History, UCLA Lunch Friday afternoon, November 16 Welcome Gerald S. Levey, M.D. Dean, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA THE COMMITMENT TO CARE v. THE COMMITMENT TO KNOWLEDGE PRINCIPLES AND METHODS OF CLINICAL RESEARCH Ted Kaptchuk, O.M.D. Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard University HOW TECHNOLOGY HAS SHAPED CLINICAL RESEARCH AT THE BEDSIDE Joel Howell, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of History, Internal Medicine, and Health Services Management and Policy, and Director of the Program in Society and Medicine, University of Michigan THE PATIENT IN CLINICAL RESEARCH: REVISITING THE BARNEY CLARK CASE Barron Lerner, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor of Medicine and Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University Commentary, Discussion and Audience Questions. Marcia L. Meldrum, Ph.D. Researcher, Departments of History, Pediatrics and Neurobiology, UCLA RECEPTION Rare Book Room, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library Saturday morning, November 17 Welcome Gary E. Strong, M.L.S. University Librarian, UCLA FROM HOSPICE TO HEALTH CENTER AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF HOSPITAL ARCHITECTURE: FROM HOSPICE TO HEALTH CENTER Axel Karenberg, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor, Institute for History and Ethics of Medicine, University of Cologne CONVERGENCE OF ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: THE RONALD REAGAN UCLA MEDICAL CENTER James B. Atkinson, M.D. Chief, Pediatric Surgery, UCLA Commentary, Discussion and Audience Questions. Katharine E.S. Donahue, M.L.S. Head, History & Special Collections, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA Lunch GUIDED TOURS OF THE NEW RONALD REAGAN UCLA MEDICAL CENTER Tours will be conducted following lunch. Groups will depart from the Neuroscience Research Building at regular (5 or 10 minute) intervals and proceed on foot less than two blocks to the new Medical Center. Tours require approximately one hour of walking. Program Chairs: Dora B. Weiner, Marcia L. Meldrum and Katharine E.S. Donahue. The primary sponsor for this conference is the Department of Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, with special thanks to Professor Marie-Françoise Chesselet, Chair. Further special thanks to the Southern California Colloquium in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology and Professor Margaret Jacob. Additional support is gratefully acknowledged from these units at UCLA: History and Special Collections, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library; David Geffen School of Medicine; School of Nursing; School of Public Health; Department of History; and Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences. ____________________________________________________________ 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 -- 2007 Message Index |