University of Iowa History of Medicine Lectures

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

William Osler: His Life and Sense of Humor, February 28, 2019

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

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

Ring the fire bell: the incredible story of an Iowa Civil War medical center, September 27, 2018

Viral markets: economics, the environment, and emerging disease in the twentieth century, April 28, 2018

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

Tócame el Trigémino: asuerotherapy, popular culture, and the global medical establishment in the early 20th century, February 22, 2018

World War I and medicine, October 27, 2017

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pediatric nutrition at the University of Iowa, October 22, 2015

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

Medicinal plants of the Mediterranean: a unique legacy, April 24, 2015

Price of pain: examining global inquality in palliative care and a human rights response, January 22, 2015

The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society: the early influence of Bill Bean, Palmer Howard, and William Osler, September 25, 2014

Nineteenth century Davenport as a hotbed of alternative medicine, June 19, 2014

William Stewart Halsted, the father of American modern surgery, February 27, 2014

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

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

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

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

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

Performance and power: Medical attitudes toward technology in the Hellenistic period, November 29, 2012

Medicalization of menopause over the past 100 years, October 25, 2012

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

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

Vienna heritage of Iowa orthopaedics, February 21, 2006

Civil War diary of Amanda Shelton, January 24, 2006

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

The life and times of Crawford Long: the ether controversy, September 27, 2005

Neither Hot headed nor Cold Hearted: The Role of Late Medieval Perspectiva in Locating the Internal Senses, March 7, 1996

Why no health insurance in the United States?: Limits of social provision after WWII, November 30, 1995

Medical detectives from Atlanta: the curious image of epidemiology at the Centers for Disease Control, January 26, 1995

Mosaics, civilizations and other models of infectious disease: Charles Nicolle and the Pasteur Institute of Tunis, 1909-1936, October 13, 1994

The pre-history of medicine: using evolution to understand problems in contemporary medicine and psychology, part 1, January 27, 1994

The pre-history of medicine: using evolution to understand problems in contemporary medicine and psychology, part 2, January 27, 1994

Methods of study and of teaching anatomy from Hippocrates to Vesalius, September 30, 1993

The true measure of men: assessing physical fitness in America, 1885-1945, April 1, 1993

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

Medicine on the Iowa frontier: Ormanville, 1851-1890, part 1, December 3, 1992