Medical History and Bioethics
MHB Faculty Lectures: 2008-2009
Upcoming Talks
March 13, 2009: University of Minnesota Center for Bioethics
Susan Lederer
"Beecher's Bombshell Revisited: What the Editors left Out of This Milestone in American Research Ethics"
March 19, 2009: TBA
Claire Wendland
SMPH Ob/Gyn Medicine Grand Rounds: Maternal Mortality in the Third World
March 22, 2009: 4:00 p.m.
Walton Schalick
Radio Interview on Medieval Medicine, University of the Air
To listen to the talk tune in to WPR.
March 27, 2009: 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. Beyond Human Symposium
Walton Schalick
"More or Less: Prosthetics, Disability and Medicine in History"
March 28, 2009: National MD/PhD Sociohumanists' Conference, Philadelphia, PA
Walton Schalick
Keynote Speaker: "Speculum medicinae: Experiences of a Physician-Historian"
April 6, 2009, 4:30 pm: Yale University
Warwick Anderson
“Becoming Autoimmune: Self and Non-Self in Twentieth-Century Immunology.”
April 16, 2009, 12:00 pm: 8108 Social Sciences Building
Walton Schalick
Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies: "Liber-ation: The Technology of the Book and Parisian University Medicine in the Middle Ages"
April 18, 2009, 3:00 pm: Pyle Center
Walton Schalick
Symposium: Other Peoples’ Thinking: Language and Mentality in England before the Conquest:
“Efficacious Inefficacy: The Mentalité of Anglo-Saxon Medicine”
Conference website.
April 20, 2009, 4:30 pm: Yale University
Ronald Numbers
"Simplifying Complexity: Patterns in the History of Science and Religion"
April 22, 2009, 5:30 pm: Yale University
Ronald Numbers
2009 Shulman Lectures in Science and the Humanities: "Antievolution in America: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design"
April 25, 2009, 8:30 am: AAHM, Cleveland
Shannon Withycombe
"Death without Bodies: Miscarriage in Nineteenth-Century
America"
April 25, 2009, 1:15 pm: AAHM, Cleveland
Judith Houck
"With a Flashlight and a Speculum: Envisioning a
Feminist Revolution"
April 25, 2009, 3:00 pm: AAHM, Cleveland
Walton Schalick
"The ‘Super-Crip:’ Medicine, Disability and Comic Books,
1960s-90s"
American Association of the History of Medicine Annual Meeting
May 20, 2009, CHSTM: University of Manchester
Susan Lederer, as Wellcome Trust Visiting Professor of History of Medicine
"Banking on the Body: American Commerce in Flesh and Blood in the 20th Century"
May 26, 2009, 4:00 pm: CHSTM, University of Manchester
Susan Lederer
"Doctors, Diet and Nutrition"
May 26, 2009: CHSTM, University of Manchester
Susan Lederer
"'Duck and Cover:' Medical Preparedness for Atomic Attack in Cold War America
Previously
March 6, 2009, 11:45 am: Pontifical Georgian University, Rome
Ronald Numbers
III STOQ International Congress: Biological Evolution Facts and Theories. "Antievolution in America: From Creation Science to Intelligent Design"
March 5, 2009, Noon - 1:30 pm: 8108 Social Sciences Building
Linda Hogle
Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies Brown Bag: "Excursions in Biology: The Search for the Standardized Cell"
February 27, 2009, 8:00 am: VA Auditorium
Susan Lederer
SMPH Medicine Grand Rounds: "American Blood: the Rediscovery of Blood Transfusion in the 20th Century"
February 27, 2009, 4:00 pm: 341 Bardeen
Linda Hogle
Neuroscience and Public Policy Program: "Audacious Hope or Unrealistic Expectations? Promise, Prudence and Stem Cell Research"
February 16, 2009, 4:30 pm: 374 Rockefeller Hall, Cornell University
Richard C. Keller
"Chasing Ghosts: Risk, Resilience, and Disaster in Contemporary France"
February 12, 2009, 7:00 pm: Trinity University, San Antonio
Ronald Numbers
“Anti-evolution in America: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design”
The talk is part of Trinity's Darwin Day program.
February 12, 2009, 8:00 am: Boltz Auditorium, Meriter Hospital
Judith Leavitt
SMPH Medicine Grand Rounds: History of Childbirth
February 6, 2009: Rice University Center on Race, Religion, and Urban Life
Ronald Numbers
Panel discussion "Waging Peace on the Science and Religion Battleground."
November 21, 2008: 12:00 pm, Banquet Room, University Club
Walton Schalick
What Is Human? Lunch Talk: "'What He's Never Known, He's Never Miss:" Children with Disabilities, Rehabilitation and the Meaning of 'Human'"
November 19, 2008: 5:00 pm, Pyle Center
Judith Leavitt
"Make Room for Daddy: Men and Childbirth in Mid-Twentieth Century America"as part of the Center for Humanities Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Faculty Lectures.
November 18 & 19, 2008: Overture Center
A Decade Celebrating Stem Cells
Academy Evenings at the Overture Center: Speakers include Alta Charo, Jim Doyle, Carl Gulbrandsen, James Thomson, Tommy Thompson and Michael West.
November 13, 2008: 7:30 am, HSLC
Walton Schalick
Pediatric Grand Rounds: "Through a Glass Darkly: The Policy, Ethics and History of Children with Disabilities, 1912-1960"
October 27, 2008: 12:00 pm, HSLC 1309
Walton Schalick
Seminar in Population Health Sciences: “Through a Mirror Darkly: Children with Disabilities in American Policy, 1912-1965"
October 13, 2008: 12:00 pm, Memorial Union
Walton Schalick
Medieval Studies Brown Bag: "On the One Hand; On the Other Hand: Laterality in the Middle Ages"
September 21-23, 2008
World Stem Cell Summit
MADISON, Wisconsin. September 22-23, 2008 at the Alliant Energy Center. Presented by the Genetics Policy Institute and hosted by the University of Wisconsin Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Center and the WiCell Research Institute, the World Stem Cell Summit is the flagship international stem cell event.
Not a Public Lecture, by registration. For information:
Visit the World Stem Cell Summit website.
Public Lectures: 2007-2008
November 2, 2007: 12:00-1:00, 1335 HSLC
Marcia Angell
The Truth About Drug Companies
November 16, 2007, Noon, University Club
Richard Keller
Chasing Ghosts: Notes from a Human Disaster.
Part of the "What is the Human?" series which is a UW-Madison interdisciplinary and multidimensional initiative, made possible through support from the Robert F. and Jean E. Holtz Fund of the University of Wisconsin Foundation, aimed at revitalization of intellectual and institutional relationships between the sciences and the humanities. Reservations Necessary* Please email including your UW-Madison affiliation and daytime phone # to center@humanities.wisc.edu by noon Nov. 13
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