By on November 30, 2020 - 5:00pm
Join us for the 2020-2021 Heberden Society history of medicine lecture series! All lectures are free and open to the public, though Zoom registration is required in advance. The 2020-2021 season is generously sponsored by David J. Wolf, MD.
DECEMBER 3, 2020 | 5 PM EST
Should Clinical Medicine be Regulated like Research?
Tom L. Beauchamp, PhD
Professor of Philosophy, Philosophy Department (Emeritus) and Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics (Retired), Georgetown University
Co-sponsored with the Weill Cornell Medicine Division of Medical Ethics. Registration for this Zoom lecture is no longer available.
FEBRUARY 3, 2021 | 5 PM EST
The Doctors Blackwell
Janice P. Nimura
Independent Author and Public Scholar Award Recipient from the National Endowment for the Humanities
Co-sponsored with the New York Academy of Medicine’s Center for the History of Medicine and Public Health. Registration for this Zoom lecture is no longer available. The recording is available at https://youtu.be/QZmK-1At_IM.
MARCH 10, 2021 | 5 PM EST
In Search of the Cause of Death of Dr. Semmelweis: From Budapest to Vienna and Back Again
Andrew Schafer, MD
Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine
Registration for this Zoom lecture is no longer available. The recording is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZT74BTeJG0.
APRIL 28, 2021 | 5 PM EST
Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
Deirdre Cooper Owens, PhD
Director of the Humanities in Medicine Program and the Charles Wilson Professor in the History of Medicine, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Registration for this Zoom lecture is no longer available. The recording is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKm0UopGk3k.
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