Heberden Society Lectures 2013-2014 - Update

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 26, 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.

September 26, 2013

Steven G. Friedman, MD, FACS

Professor of Clinical Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College

Chief, Division of Surgery, NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital

Elizabeth Blackwell: First US Woman Physician

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

Please register at http://www.nyam.org/events/2013/2013-09-26.html

December 10, 2013

Jacalyn Duffin, MD, PhD, FRCPC, FRSC

Professor and Hannah Chair of the History of Medicine, Queen's University (Kingston, ON)

Medical Miracles: Doctors Saints and Healing in the Modern World

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

February 26, 2014

Rosemary A. Stevens, PhD

DeWitt Wallace Distinguished Scholar, Weill Cornell Medical College Institute for the History of Psychiatry

Inventing the Veterans Administration: Who, How and Why? 1921-1924

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

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April 10, 2014

Paul A. Lombardo, PhD, JD

Bobby Lee Cook Professor of Law, Georgia State University College of Law

'The Craze for Legal Proceedings': Schloendorff v. New York Hospital, 1914 (cosponsored with the Division of Medical Ethics)

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

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