University of Iowa History of Medicine Lectures

2000 year history of scabies: from humoral beliefs to contagion to modern understanding, October 24, 2013

Abraham Flexner and medical humanism, April 4, 1986

Abraham Flexner's contributions to the University of Iowa's College of Medicine, September 26, 2013

American medical women: the First World War and the meaning of war service, part 1, October 8, 1992

American medical women: the First World War and the meaning of war service, part 2, October 8, 1992

Artificial Hearts: A Controversial Medical Technology and its Sensational Patient Cases, April 5, 2019

Attracted to ill humors, or what hope for Shakespeare's cachexic couples, May 18, 2017

Bring out your dead (papers)!: Early modern medical practitioners and archivists and collectors, September 28, 2017

Civil War diary of Amanda Shelton, January 24, 2006

Civility on trial: nurses, surgeons, and medical extremity in Civil War hospitals, October 27, 2016

Computer in nursing in the United States: technology induced changes and the response of the nursing profession, December 5, 1991

Convergence of ideas in surgery around 1900, April 7, 1989

Cookery for the sick from the Szathmary Collection of Culinary Arts, February 18, 1993

Curating Frankenstein, History of Medicine Society, March 22, 2018

De motu cordis, November 6, 1991

Decline of neuresthenia, January 23, 1992

Deconstructing the body: medical art, medical imaging and the art of medicine, September 24, 2015

Defectives in the land: disability and American immigration policy, 1882-1924, February 23, 2010

The demise of Stonewall Jackson: a Civil War case study, January 24, 2013

Demons, witches and the legacy of Johann Weyer, October 8, 1992

Department of Internal Medicine 1910-1928: the first golden age, October 11, 1990

A dog's life: the controversy over pound animals in medical research, 1920-1966, November 12, 1992

Dr. Helkiah Crooke (1576-1648): the historical and literary legacy of an early modern physician, September 22, 2016

Dr. Nurse: knowledge, politics, and the making of the academic nurse, October 25, 2018

Evolution of the staff nurse role in hospitals, March 5, 1990

Expedited diffusion of innovation: a reflection on the Ponseti method in the current era of medicine, January 23, 2014

Flexner investigation of the University of Iowa Medical School, December 5, 1985

Foundation of radiology with an emphasis on the University of Iowa, November 21, 2013

From magic bullets to antibiotics: Chemotherapeutic agents and the nature of life in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, May 12, 1986

Gender, Memory, and Authority in the Early Modern Medical Print Marketplace, February 25, 2016

Healthcare for American Indians: triumphs and tragedies, November 19, 2015

His and hers: male and female anatomy in anatomy texts for medical students 1890-1990, part 1, February 13, 1992

His and hers: male and female anatomy in anatomy texts for medical students 1890-1990, part 2, February 13, 1992

Historical reflections on the concept of alcoholism: abuse and dependency, November 29, 1990

History and development of surgery on the fetus, December 8, 1987

History of anesthesia in the Veteran's Health Administration, January 26, 2012

History of cardiovascular surgery, February 11, 1986

History of medical education in America, April 7, 1989

History of orthopedic surgery, November 10, 1987

The history of torture including the experience of Janusz Bardach, November 17, 2016

Homeopathic medicine at University of Iowa, 1876-1919, February 15, 1990

How fingerprints came into use for personal identification, September 13, 1988

Immortal quakery, part 1, April 12, 1985

Immortal quakery, part 2, April 12, 1985

Injections, itches, and institutions: the experience of rural medicine in Iowa, 1920-1950, January 28, 2016

Iowa physicians and poverty: caring for the needy, 1900-1940, October 25, 2005

Iowa trailblazer: contributions to medicine by Elmer DeGowin, January 24, 2019

Iowa's Richard Edwin Shope, MD: his contributions to influenza research and One Medicine-One Health, January 26, 2017