Heberden Society Lectures 2012-13

Are you interested in the history of medicine? Then you'll want to attend the Heberden Society lectures!

The Heberden Society was established at the medical center in 1975 by a group of medical interns and residents who were interested in promoting the history of medicine. The society is named after Sir William Heberden the younger (1767-1845), who served as physician to King George III of England, the sovereign who granted a royal charter for The New York Hospital in 1771. (The original charter, signed by George III, resides in the Medical Center Archives.)

Funded by the WCMC Office of the Dean, the Heberden Society sponsors a series of lectures throughout the academic year. Most of the lectures are held in the Uris Faculty Room (A-126), 1300 York Avenue. However, this year's first lecture, on September 27, will take place at the New York Academy of Medicine and will be cosponsored by NYAM's Section on the History of Medicine and Public Health.

Heberden Society lectures for this year cover a variety of fascinating topics. We hope one of them will pique your interest.

September 27, 2012

Curtis W. Hart, M.Div., Lecturer in Psychiatry, Medicine, Public Health, Weill Cornell Medical College

Editor-in-chief, Journal of Religion and Health

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: A Famous Patient (cosponsored with NYAM's Section on the History of Medicine and Public Health)

6 p.m., New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue

Please register at http://www.nyam.org/events/2012/2012-09-27.html

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November 1, 2012 - CANCELLED due to weather

Alfred I. Tauber, M.D., Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Zoltan Kohn Professor Emeritus of Medicine, Boston University

Requiem for the Ego: Freud Pushing against the Postmodern Tide (cosponsored with the WCMC Division of Medical Ethics)

5 p.m., Uris Faculty Room (A-126), WCMC.

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January 23, 2013

David B. Levine, M.D., Emeritus Clinical Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College

Director of Alumni Association & Archives, Hospital for Special Surgery

The Civil War and its Casualties

4:30 p.m., Uris Faculty Room (A-126), WCMC.

Followed by a reception at the WCMC Medical Library in conjunction with the exhibit Life and Limb: The Toll of the American Civil War

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May 14, 2013

Ellen Cohn, Editor-in-chief of the Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Yale University

Benjamin Franklin's Contributions to Medicine

4:30 p.m., Uris Faculty Room (A-126), WCMC.

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We hope to see you at the Heberden Society lectures this year.