University of Iowa History of Medicine Lectures

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 cardiovascular surgery, February 11, 1986

History of medical education in America, April 7, 1989

History of orthopedic surgery, November 10, 1987

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

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

Liver cancer and hepatitis in Taiwan, April 1, 1988

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

Medical terminology: that's a funny word, what does it mean?, September 6, 1990

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

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

Medicine on the Iowa frontier: Ormanville, 1851-1890, part 2, December 3, 1992

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Relationship of fine art and medicine, December 3, 1992

Revising the curriculum: introduction to clinical medicine at the University of Iowa College of Medicine, 1960-1978, November 21, 1991