University of Iowa History of Medicine Lectures

World War I and medicine, October 27, 2017

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

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

William Beaumont: the stubborn physician encounters the stubborn boatman, October 3, 1989

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

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

Vienna heritage of Iowa orthopaedics, February 21, 2006

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

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

Tracking the first reported sickle cell anemia patient, November 16, 1989

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

To be more perfect in the art: medical students in 18th century London, September 7, 1989

Thomas Percival and the birth of Anglo-American medical ethics, April 4, 1986

Student papers, January 23, 1989

Social context of modern medical centers and centers for the humanities, April 3, 1987

Sir Geoffrey Keynes: a quite outrageously enjoyable existence, March 7, 1988

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

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

Relationship of fine art and medicine, December 3, 1992

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Making of a medical monopoly: myth or reality?, March 30, 1990

Liver cancer and hepatitis in Taiwan, April 1, 1988

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

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

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

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

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

Immortal quakery, part 2, April 12, 1985

Immortal quakery, part 1, April 12, 1985