Past Lectures, 2012-2013
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Curtis W. Hart, M. Div., Weill Cornell Medical College
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: A Famous Patient
This event was co-sponsored by the Heberden Society
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
The Iago Galdston Lecture
Mark Largent, Ph.D., Michigan State University
Vaccine: The Modern American Debate
Past Lectures, 2011-2012
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Neal Flomenbaum, M.D., Weill Cornell Medical Center
Emergency Medicine in Lower Manhattan in the late 1800's: Everything Old is New Again
This lecture was co-sponsored by the Heberden Society
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
The Iago Galdston Lecture
Barron Lerner, MD, PhD, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
One for the Road: Drunk Driving Since 1900
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
James Colgrove, PhD, MPH, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
Epidemic City: The Politics of Public Health in New York
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
The John K. Lattimer Lecture
Ira Rutkow, MD, DrPH, University of Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersey
The Civil War: How Did It Impact Medicine in America?
Wedneday, February 29, 2012
Margaret Humphreys, MD, PhD, Duke University
"Of Wards and War": The Importance of Good and Bad Medical Care in the American Civil War
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Jane E. Schultz, PhD, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
Hired to Care: Civil War Nurses and the Military Body
Thursday, April 5, 2012
The Annual Friends of the Rare Book Room Lecture
Mary Fissell, PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Something Borrowed, Something Blue: The Strange History of Aristotle's Masterpiece
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
The Lilianna Sauter Lecture
Susan M. Reverby, PhD, Wellesley College
Escaping Melodramas: Historical Thinking and the Public Health Service Studies in Tuskegee and Guatamala
Past Lectures, 2010-2011
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Paul Kligfield, MD, FACC, FAHA Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College
Medical Chaos in 1890s New York: The Case of University Medical College
This lecture was co-sponsored by the Heberden Society
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Chris Sellars, MD,PhD, SUNY Stony Brook
Global Health: Historical Perspectives I: The Uneven Development of Knowledge about Lead Poisoning: Notes toward a Comparison between the U.S. and Mexico
This lecture was sponsored in part by the New York Council on the Humanities
Thursday, December 2, 2010
The Lilianna Sauter Lecture
Vinh-Kim Nguyen, MD, MSc, PhD, University of Montreal; Commentary by Jeffrey O'Malley, Director of the HIV/AIDS Group in the United Nations Development Programme
Global Health: Historical Perspectives II: The Republic of Therapy: AIDS in West Africa
This lecture was sponsored in part by the New York Council on the Humanities
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
The John K. Lattimer Lecture
Jeffrey M. Jentzen, MD, PhD, University of Michigan
Death Investigation in America
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Anne-Emanuelle Birn, ScD, University of Toronto
Global Health: Historical Perspectives III: Global Health and the Politics of Cooptation
This lecture was sponsored in part by the New York Council on the Humanities
Thursday, March 17, 2011
The Annual Friends of the Rare Book Room Lecture
Domenico Bertoloni Meli, PhD, Indiana University - Bloomington
Vivisection in William Harvey's Century
Thursday, April 14, 2011
The Iago Galdston LectureLeslie J. Reagan, PhD, University of IllinoisDangerous Pregnancies: German Measles (Rubella), Mothers, and Disabilities in Modern America
Monday, May 9, 2011William J. Higgins, Higgins Quasebarth & Partners, LLCThe Architecture of Health: Four Centuries of Hospital Design in New York City
Past Lectures, 2009-2010
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Beatrix Hoffman, Ph.D., Northern Illinois University
Insurance or Rights? Debates over Health Coverage and Access to Health Care in the U.S., 1912-1950
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Rosemary Stevens, Ph.D., M.P.H., Weill Cornell Medical College
Industry vs. System: US Health Policy 1948-2009
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Jonathan Engel, Ph.D., Baruch College
What is Wrong with Medicaid?
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Rashi Fein, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School
Presidents and the Never-Ending Quest for Health Reform
Thursday, February 4, 2010
The Lilianna Sauter Lecture
M. Susan Lindee, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Gut Feelings and Technical Precision: Thinking about Cystic Fibrosis
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
The Iago Galdston Lecture
Steven J. Peitzman, M.D., Drexel University College of Medicine
Bleed or Not Bleed Mrs. Camac? A 19th Century Medical Decision
Monday, April 12, 2010
The John K. Lattimer Lecture
Jacalyn Duffin, M.D., Ph.D., Queens University, Ontario
Medical Miracles: Doctors, Saints and Healing in the Modern World
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
The Annual Friends of the Rare Book Room Lecture
William B. Ashworth, Jr., Ph.D., University of Missouri, Kansas City and the Linda Hall Library
Nature Revealed: The Evolution of a Scientific Emblem
Past Lectures, 2008-2009
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Bert Hansen, Ph.D., Baruch College
Historical Perspectives on Reducing Maternal Mortality, Part I: Pare Lorentz's "The Fight for Life" and the Maternal Health Movement of the Interwar Years
Thursday, October 30, 2008
The Iago Galdston Lecture
Jacqueline Wolf, Ph.D., Ohio University
Historical Perspectives on Reducing Maternal Mortality, Part II: Despite the Risk: Lay and Medical Perceptions of Obstetric Anesthesia
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Ann Starrs, President, Family Care International
Historical Perspectives on Reducing Maternal Mortality, Part III: Dying for Life: Maternal Mortality in the Developing World
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Jesse Ballenger, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Changing Perspectives on Healthy Aging, Part I: To Conquer Confusion: Aging, Culture, and Concepts of Dementia
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
TheJohn K. Lattimer Lecture
John W. Rowe, M.D., Columbia University
Changing Perspectives on Healthy Aging, Part II: The Development of the Concept of Successful Aging
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Linda Fried, Columbia University
Changing Perspectives on Healthy Aging, Part III: Preserving and Enhancing Social Utility Among the Aging
Monday, April 6, 2009
The Lilianna Sauter Lecture
Elizabeth Siegel Watkins, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco
Changing Perspectives on Health Aging, Part IV: The Estrogen Elixir: Women, Hormone Replacement, and the Predicament of Aging
Thursday, May 7, 2009
The Annual Friends of the Rare Book Room Lecture
Charles Rosenberg, Ph.D., Harvard University
Changing Perspectives on Healthy Aging, Part V: Who Owns Old Age?
Past Lectures, 2007-2008
Wednesday, October 24,2007
Edward Shorter, MD; Max Fink, MD; Lee Wachtel, MD; Ann Bauer, journalist
Alfred Freedman, MD, moderator
The History of Convulsive Therapy from Depression to Autism: Past Uses, Future Possibilities
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Jeremy Hugh Baron, DM, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Medicine in Wartime, Part I: The Anglo-American Biomedical Antecedents of Nazi Crimes
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
The John K. Lattimer Lecture
Alan Kraut, PhD, American University
'Mirrors of the Culture': Jewish Hospitals in the History of American Health Care
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
The Annual Friends of the Rare Book Room Lecture
Will Noel, PhD,The Walters Art Museum
The Strange Case of the Archimedes Codex
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Bertrand Taithe, PhD, University of Manchester
Medicine in Wartime, Part II: The Giant Hospital: Besieged Paris in the Modern War Era, 1870-1871
Thursday, March 27, 2008
The Iago Galdston Lecture
Arleen M. Tuchman, Vanderbilt University
Diabetes: A Cultural History
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Beth Linker, University of Pennsylvania
Medicine in Wartime, Part III: Limb Lab: Getting Amputee Soldiers Back to Work in World War I America
Thursday, May , 8, 2008
The Lilianna Sauter Lecture
Susan L. Smith, University of Alberta
Medicine in Wartime, Part IV: Place, Health and War: World War II Mustard Gas Experiments in Transnational Perspective
Past Lectures, 2006-2007
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Mathilde Krim, M.D.
Ronald Bayer, Ph.D., Columbia University
HIV AIDS: The First Quarter-Century
Thursday, October 12, 2006
The John K. Lattimer Lecture
David S. Barnes, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle against Filth and Germs
Wednesday, November 8, 2006
John P. Swann, PhD, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
100 Years and More of Misbranding, Adulteration, and Drug Regulation in America
Wednesday, December 6, 2006
Barron H. Lerner,MD, PhD, Columbia University
When Illness Goes Public: Celebrity Patients and How We Look at Medicine
Thursday, January 25, 2007
The Lilianna Sauter Lecture
Harriet Washington, Independent Scholar
American Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Chris Feudtner, MD, PhD, MPH, University of Pennsylvania
Depicting Decisions: The History of Diabetes and the Daily Work of Care
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
The Annual Friends of the Rare Book Room Lecture
Walton Schalick, MD, PhD, Washington University in St. Louis
School Books, School Days: The Technology of Medical Books in Medieval Paris
Thursday, April 26, 2007
The Iago Galdston Lecture
Susan Lederer, PhD, Yale University
Bombs, Blood, and Bio-Markers: Medical Preparedness in Cold War America
Tuesday, May 22, 2006
Gerald Oppenheimer, PhD, MPH, Columbia University
Shattered Dreams? The Impact of AIDS on the new South Africa
Past Lectures, 2005-2006
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
David T. Mininberg, MD, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
The Art of Medicine in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean
Thursday, October 27, 2005
James P. Allen, PhD, Metropolitan Museum of Art
The World of Ancient Egyptian Medicine
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Michael McVaugh, PhD, University of North Carolina
An Ailment Not to be Treated: The Rationality of Pre-Modern Surgery
Wednesday, December 7, 2005
Monica Green, PhD, Arizona State University
Gynecology and Surgery: Allilances of Knowledge and Practice in the Premodern Period
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
David Oshinsky, University of Texas
Polio: A Look Back at the 20th Century's Most Feared Disease
Thursday, February 23, 2006
The John K. Lattimer Lecture
James H. Jones, PhD
The Decision to Put David into "the Bubble:" Treatment or Research?
Thursday, March 23, 2006
The Iago Galdston Lecture
Janet Golden, Rutgers University
The Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
The Annual Friends of the Rare Book Room Lecture
Roger Gaskell
Recreating the Harveian Library of the London College of Physicians
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
The Lilianna Sauter Lecture
Amy Fairchild and Ron Bayer, Columbia University
The Searching Eyes of Government: Public Health Surveillance in Twentieth-Century America
Past Lectures, 2004-2005
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
Humanities Month
Julia Boyd
Doctress: Elizabeth Blackwell, MD and her Place in the History of Medicine
Co-sponsored by the New York Council for the Humanities
Monday, October 25, 2004
Paul E.M. Fine, VMD, PhD, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
From Pumphandle to Polio Eradication
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Sarah Tracy, PhD, University of Oklahoma
2003-04 Paul Klemperer Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine
Old Wine in New Bottles?: Theories of Alcoholism and its Treatment in America, 1870 to 2004
Thursday, November 11, 2004
Bryan Waterman, New York University
2004-2005 Audrey and William H. Helfand Fellow in Medical Humanities
Narrative, Knowledge, and the National Health: Writing about Yellow Fever in Late Eighteenth-Century New York City
Thursday, November 18, 2004
John Barry, Tulane University
The Great Influenza of 1918
Wednesday, December 15, 2004
Jeremy Greene, Harvard University
The Fall and Rise of a Risk Factor: Cholesterol and the Statins, 1950-2000
Tuesday, January 18, 2005
The Annual Friends of the Rare Book Room Lecture
Michael Bliss, University of Toronto
Harvey Cushing, his Boswells, and his Harem: Immortalizing an American Surgeon
Thursday, February 10, 2005
Samuel Roberts, Columbia University
Mediating Infection and Politics: Ideas of Hereditary Predisposition and Poverty in the Early U.S. Anti-Tuberculosis Movement
Thursday, March 17, 2005
The Iago Galdston Lecture
Judy Wu, Ohio State University
Modernizing Chinatown: Race, Reproduction, and Medical Tourism
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Paul Sutter, University of Georgia
Pulling the Teeth of the Tropics: Disease, Race, and Nature during the American Construction of the Panama Canal
Thursday, April 21, 2005
The John K. Lattimer Lecture
Howard Markel, University of Michigan
When Germs Travel: Epidemics and Immigrants in the 20th Century
This event was sponsored in part by the New York Council for the Humanities.
Monday, May 23, 2005
The Lilianna Sauter Lecture
Susan Wolf, University of Minnesota Law School
Governing Reproductive Medicine and Reprogenetics: A Daunting Challenge
Past Lectures, 2003-2004
Tuesday, October 14, 2003
The Iago Galdston Lecture
Bert Hansen, PhD, Baruch College
Medical History for the Masses: Heroes of Medicine in Children's Comic Books of the 1940s
Tuesday, November 11, 2003
The John K. Lattimer Lecture
John Harley Warner, PhD, Yale University
Aesthetics, Identity, and the Grounding of Modern Medicine
Wednesday, December 10, 2003
Elizabeth Norman, PhD, New York University
We Band of Angels: The Story of American Nurses Captured in the Philippine Islands During World War II
Wednesday, January 21, 2004
James C. Whorton, PhD, University of Washington School of Medicine
From Cultism to CAM: Alternative Medicine in the Twentieth Century
SPECIAL THREE-LECTURE SERIES ON PSYCHIATRY IN AMERICA
Wednesday, February 18, 2004:
The Lilianna Sauter Lecture
Jonathan Sadowsky, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University
Electroconvulsive Therapy and the Concept of Progress in Medical History
Wednesday, March 17, 2004:
Jonathan Metzl, M.D., Ph.D., University of Michigan
Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs
Wednesday, April 7, 2004:
Andrea Tone, Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology
They Used to Call it 'Just Nerves': Pills, Science, and Profit in Modern Medicine
Wednesday, May 12, 2004:
The Annual Friends of the Rare Book Room Lecture
Katherine Park, Ph.D., Harvard University
The Empire of Anatomy: Rethinking Vesalius' Titlepage
Past Lectures, 2002-2003
Wednesday, October 9, 2002
Matthew Ramsey, PhD, Vanderbilt University
Remedy Vendors and the Printed Word in 18th- and 19th-Century France
Wednesday, November 13, 2002
Ellen S. More, PhD, University of Texas
Dr. Mary Steichen Calderone and the Personal Politics of Sexuality
Tuesday, December 10, 2002
Alice D. Dreger, PhD, Michigan State University
Measuring Phalluses, Gendering Babies, and Speaking to the Dead: What History Tells Us about Handling Intersex Today
Wednesday, January 29, 2003
Amy Fairchild, PhD, Columbia University
Science at the Borders: Immigrant Medical Inspection and the Shaping of the Modern Industrial Labor Force
Wednesday, February 19, 2003
The Iago Galdston Lecture
Randall M. Packard, PhD, Johns Hopkins University
What Kind of a Problem is Malaria? The Past and Future of Malaria Control
Thursday, March 13, 2003
The John K. Lattimer Lecture
John Efron, PhD, University of California—Berkeley
Medicine, Modernity, and the German Jews
Wednesday, April 9, 2003
The Annual Friends of the Rare Book Room Lecture
James Tait Goodrich, MD, PhD, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein School of Medicine
Andreas Vesalius (1519-1564): A Medical Academic's Evolving Viewpoint on Vesalius' Contributions to Art and Anatomy
Tuesday, May 6, 2003
The Lilianna Sauter Lecture
Paul Lombardo, PhD, JD, University of Virginia
Better for all the World: Eugenics, the Supreme Court and Buck v. Bell
Past Lectures, 2001-2002
Thursday, October 11, 2001
Humanities Month Lecture
M. Susan Lindee, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
The Yanomami-Measles Controversy: A Participant-Observer's Account
Wednesday, November 14, 2001
Karen Buhler-Wilkerson, RN, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
No Place Like Home: A History of Nursing and Home Care in the United States
Tuesday, December 11, 2001
Margaret Humphreys, MD, PhD, Duke University
Whose Body? Which Disease? Studying Malaria while Treating Neurosyphilis
Wednesday, January 9, 2002
M. Donald Blaufox, MD, PhD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
An Ear to the Chest: The Evolution of the Stethoscope
Tuesday, February 12, 2002
The Iago Galdston Lecture
James Mohr, PhD, University of Oregon
The Burning of Honolulu's Chinatown: Plague, Fire, Bacteriology, and Public Health Policy at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
Wednesday, March 13, 2002
The John K. Lattimer Lecture
Steven Feierman, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Traditional Medicine in Africa: Colonial Transformations
Tuesday, April 8, 2002
The Annual Friends of the Rare Book Room Lecture
Philip K. Wilson, PhD, Pennsylvania State University Medical School, Hershey
Reading the Body: Medical and Surgical Perspectives of the Skin in the 18th Century
Wednesday, May 8, 2002
The Lilianna Sauter Lecture
Robert Proctor, PhD, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
Was there such a thing as "good Nazi science"? German struggles against cancer, 1933-45
Library Patrons
The Reading Rooms will be closed over the holiday season. Friday, December 21, 2012 will be the last day before closing. The Reading Rooms will reopen on Wednesday, January 2, 2013.
Readers can continue to make appointments by calling 212-822-7315 or sending an email to library@nyam.org. We will endeavor to respond quickly as possible, but there may be delays in responding to request over the holiday period.
NYAM Section on the History of Medicine and Public Health
present
The John K. Lattimer Lecture
Putting Asthma on the Map: Weather, Pollen, Pollution and the Geography of Risk
Date: December 12, 2012
Time: 6:00PM - 7:30PM
Light refreshments at 5:30 p.m.,
Lecture at 6:00 p.m.
Manipulation of the patient's environment has been central to prevention and treatment for asthma since antiquity. Over the course of the past two centuries, physicians and patients have sought to move from testimonials and complaints to quantitative measures of risk. In this lecture, Dr. Carla Keirns of Stony Brook University of Medicine will discuss the shift over time of efforts to predict or create safe places for those who suffer from asthma and document the disproportionate risks faced by minority communities.
