Lectures: UCLA Programs in Medical Classics, Winter/Spring 2000
UCLA Programs in Medical Classics, Winter/Spring 2000 From the online brochure/announcement at <http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/biomed/his/medclass.htm> : The UCLA Programs in Medical Classics is a series of presentations designed to enhance an appreciation of the links among famous medical writings, clinical practice, basic research, and humanistic scholarship. Held monthly, October through May or June, these meetings bring together a convivial group of individuals of scholarly tastes -- both from the community and from the UCLA faculty, students and staff -- to read, discuss and examine texts that embody advances in medicine and in the relationship of medicine to broader cultural settings. The 1999-2000 academic year is our seventeenth season. For the second half of the 1999-2000 season we are pleased to welcome an excellent group of physicians and historians who will explore for us a variety of topics in the world of medicine from antiquity through the early 20th century, in Europe and beyond. Program for February through June 2000: Tuesday, 22 February 2000 Haggis in Hong Kong: Scottish National Identity and the Making of Colonial Medical Experts Mary P. Sutphen, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of History of Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco Introduction by Peter Baldwin, Ph.D. Professor of History, UCLA Tuesday, 14 March 2000 Laennec, His Stethoscope, and the Birth of Physical Diagnosis Jacalyn Duffin, M.D., F.R.C.P.(C), Ph.D. Hannah Professor of the History of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada Introduction by Dora B. Weiner, Ph.D. Professor of Medical Humanities and of History, UCLA Tuesday, 18 April 2000 Dioscorides' _De materia medica_: Circulation and Transformation of the Text from Antiquity to Byzantium Alain Touwaide, Ph.D. Fellow, Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, Washington, DC Introduction by Claudia Rapp, D.Phil. Assistant Professor of History, UCLA Co-sponsored by the University of California Multi-Campus Group in Late Antiquity Tuesday, 6 June 2000 "Peace and quiet without doctors soon shall be mine": Frédéric Chopin's Experience of Mid-19th Century Medicine Axel Karenburg, Ph.D. Associate Professor of the History of Medicine, University of Cologne, Germany Introduction by Robert G. Frank, Jr., Ph.D. Chief, Medical History Division, UCLA Each program [introduction plus lecture] will take place at on a Tuesday evening at 6:00 pm in the UCLA Faculty Center, followed by a reception and an opportunity to examine some of the books discussed that evening. There is no charge for the lectures and receptions. An optional dinner with the speakers, at $21.00 per person, will take place in the Faculty Center about 7:30 pm. A reservation is required for dinner; please call the History & Special Collections Division at (310) 825-6940 to make a reservation. See <http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/biomed/his/medclass.htm> for additional details [the new schedule will be available at this website 2/22/2000; phone numbers and email addresses on the Fall schedule are still in use]. ___________________________________________________ Russell A. Johnson rjohnson@library.ucla.edu Archivist and Cataloger (310) 825-6940 History & Special Collections Division Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA Box 951798 Los Angeles CA 90095-1798 <http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/biomed/his/hisdiv.htm> Archivist (310) 825-3191 or 206-2753 Neuroscience History Archives Brain Research Institute, UCLA Box 951761 Los Angeles CA 90095-1761 <http://www.medsch.ucla.edu/som/bri/archives/nhahome.htm>