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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Liver cancer and hepatitis in Taiwan, April 1, 1988

Medicalization of childbirth in the 20th century, November 15, 1988

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

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

Medicine, physiology, and anatomy in early 16th century critiques of the arts and sciences, February 23, 1988

A modern version of Osler's Bedside Library, part 1, March 12, 1985

A modern version of Osler's Bedside Library, part 2, March 12, 1985

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

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

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

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

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

Rats, fleas, and the Arc of the Covenant, February 16, 1989