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1997/98 HISTORY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES LECTURE SERIES
All lectures are open to the public and will be held in the Wilhelm Moll Rare Book and Medical History Room on the first floor of The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.
Wednesday, 8 October 1997, 5 to 6 p.m.
ROBERT N. PROCTOR, PhD
Pennsylvania State University
The Nazi War on Cancer
Dr. Proctor wrote Racial Hygiene: Medicine under the Nazis (Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 1988) and The Anti-tobacco Campaign of the Nazis: A Little Known Aspect of Public Health in Germany, 1933-45, BMJ, 313, no. 7070 (7 December 1996): 1450-1453.
Tuesday, 2 December 1997, 5 to 6 p.m.
ARLENE W. KEELING, PhD, RN
University of Virginia
Women's Role in the Care of the Sick on the Overland Trail, 1840-1860
Wednesday, 25 February 1998, 5 to 6 p.m.
TODD L. SAVITT, PhD
East Carolina University School of Medicine
A readers theater performance of A Face of Stone, adapted by Greg Watkins from a short story by William Carlos Williams. Dr. Savitt will lead the post-performance discussion. The purpose of a medical readers theater is to foster a closer relationship between the medical profession and the public it serves. The post-performance discussion, involving the cast and the audience, provides an arena for examining personal values and assumptions relating to medical issues. A Face of Stone is by William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), a distinguished American author and physician.
Wednesday, 18 March 1998, 5 to 6 p.m.
NORMAN GEVITZ, PhD
Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine
'The Devil’s Doctor': New England Physicians and Witchcraft in the 17th Century
Wednesday, 15 April 1998, 5 to 6 p.m.
YNEZ V. O’NEILL, PhD
University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine
Vesalius as Media Revolutionary
The Second Annual Kenneth R. Crispell Memorial History Lecture
Dr. O’Neill wrote and produced the vide