Please join the Heberden Society on Tuesday, April 8, 2025 at 5 PM EST for "On the Front Lines of New York City's Yellow Fever Epidemics."
Please join the Heberden Society on Tuesday, February 11, 2025 at 5 PM EST for "Glasnost and Perestroika in the NICU: Clinical Care and Parent Activism in the History of Neonatal Intensive Care." Johanna Schoen, PhD investigates the history of parent activism as parents, in the early 1980s, began to lobby for more humane NICU care. Dr.
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What do Dr. George Papanicolaou and primary sources have in common? A group of sixth graders from the Hellenic Charter School in Brooklyn, New York wanted to find out! Last month the Medical Center Archives welcomed five students who have been researching Dr.
Dr. Fritz Fuchs was an internationally known obstetrician and gynecologist who, along with his colleague, Povi Riis, was the first to use amniocentesis for detecting the sex of a fetus in Demark in 1955. This led to the eventual use of amniocentesis procedure to detect genetic disorders in fetuses.
President Ronald Reagan. New York City Mayor Ed Koch. Actress Elizabeth Taylor. The Heimlich maneuver is credited with saving the lives of these and many others since its invention by Dr. Henry Heimlich in 1974. Although he is best known for the anti-choking maneuver that became synonymous with his name, Dr. Heimlich created many medical procedures and devices throughout the course of his career.
THE HEBERDEN SOCIETY LECTURE: PROMOTING INTEREST IN THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE
The New York Academy of Medicine, Center for the History of Medicine and Public Health and The Heberden Society, Weill Cornell Medicine, present
VICTORIA JOHNSON, PhD
Associate Professor of Urban Policy and Planning, Hunter College, City University of New York
Losing Hamilton, Saving New York: Dr. David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Early Republic
