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Lectures and Discussions

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Apr 02 2018

Viral Markets: Economics, the Environment & Emerging Disease | R. Palmer Howard 2018 History of Medicine Dinner | Friday, April 27, 2018

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Dr. Richard C. Keller

The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society 2018 R. Palmer Howard Dinner is Friday, April, 27, 2018. Radisson Hotel, Kinnick Center, 1220 1st Avenue, Coralville.  Reception at 6:30 with cash bar.  Dinner at 7:00pm, presentation at 8pm.

Richard C. Keller, Professor, Department of Medical History and Biotethics, University of Wisconsin  give a talk on Viral Markets: Economics, the Environment, and Emerging Disease in the 20th Century.  Environmental threats to human health have changed dramatically in the course of the past century.  The cases of bubonic plague, HIV/AIDS, and Lyme disease in particular help to illustrate the ways in which changes in human patterns of interaction with the environment–and specifically, the ways in which consumer markets have disrupted unstable ecologies–have opened new epidemiological pathways and presented new challenges to health and medicine in the United States and the wider world.

Reservation deadline is April 20, 2018.  Payment in advance is required.
$40 per guest, $10 per student guest

Reserve online and pay with credit card.
HOM 2018 Banquet Registration Form (print & mail with check)

Mar 30 2018

Open Doors Graduate Career Conference | Sat. April 14 @Main Library

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picture of car with map on dashboardOpen Doors is a free career education conference for Iowa graduate students and postdocs providing first-person career advice from professionals in diverse fields, ample networking opportunities, career development workshops, and a free lunch.

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Panelists:

Dr. Krystal Parker is an Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa in the Department of Psychiatry and the Iowa Neuroscience Institute. She received her undergraduate training in Psychology and Biology from Iowa State University before coming to the University of Iowa as a postdoctoral researcher in 2009. Krystal’s lab is highly translational and is dedicated to developing novel treatments for cognitive dysfunction in neuropsychiatric diseases.

Matt McNeill, Ph.D.  works as a staff scientist in the bioinformatics group at Integrated DNA Technologies, located in Coralville, Iowa. He has a general interest in biology, new technology development, and the scientific process. Over his career, he has studied the development of neuromuscular junctions in fruit flies, the importance of an ion channel in the development of skin and brain, the biological underpinnings of social behavior, and the molecular mechanisms important for DNA hybridization. He has developed an interest in microscopy, genetics, genomics, animal behavior, and most recently, bioinformatics methods. He has implemented and developed novel methods and technologies, such as an approach to quantify changes in gene expression within 3‐dimensional brain images; these technologies have furthered biological research. He has shared his interests through volunteer activities, such as Brain Awareness Day, volunteering at elementary schools, Iowa City Darwin Day, where he served on the board, and most recently, advising University of Iowa graduate students on career options in industry. Matt received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Iowa in 2009, and he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois.

Cate Denial is the Bright Professor of American History, Chair of the History department, and Director of the Bright Institute at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. A member of the Educational Advisory Committee of the Digital Public Library of America (link is external), Cate is also a 2018-2021 Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians. Cate’s current research examines the early nineteenth-century experience of pregnancy, childbirth and child-rearing in Upper Midwestern Ojibwe and missionary cultures, research that grew from Cate’s previous book, Making Marriage: Husbands, Wives, and the American State in Dakota and Ojibwe Country (link is external) (2013). As Director of the Bright Institute at Knox College, Cate oversees a program which supports fourteen faculty from liberal arts schools across the United States in their teaching and research for three years, while providing them with research funds and summer seminar opportunities.

Matt Gilchrist, MFA,  Associate Professor of Instruction, University of Iowa Department of Rhetoric and Director of Iowa Digital Engagement and Learning, teaches courses in persuasive speaking and writing, including three at the graduate level: Public Speaking for Academics, Science Communication in the Digital Age, and Writing in the Disciplines. He directs Iowa Digital Engagement and Learning, a program that supports faculty and students who use digital classroom projects to engage the world beyond the classroom. He earned his MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

 

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Jan 22 2018

Ancient Surgery in Early Modern Italy | History of Medicine Lecture | January 25, 5:30pm

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The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society invites you to a lecture by  Marquis Berrey, Associate Professor in Classics, University of Iowa

Ancient Surgery in Early Modern Italy: Celsus, Benivieni, Morgagni
Thursday, January 25, 2018, 5:30-6:30
MERF Room 2117 (Medical Education and Research Facility)

European medical professionals from the 15th through the early 19th centuries treated the De Medicina “On Medicine” by the ancient Roman encyclopediast Aulus Cornelius Celsus (fl. 30 CE) as a standard medical reference equivalent to the works of Hippocrates and Galen. Celsus’ stylish Latin text with its detailed clinical and surgical instructions found wide readership over the early modern period among notable practitioners, from the Florentine surgeon Antonio Benivieni (1443-1502) to Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682-1771), professor of anatomy at Padua. This lecture considers how Benivieni and Morgagni put Celsus’ De Medicina to work in medical ethics, in identifications of syphilis, and in specific surgical interventions.

Marquis Berrey bio

Please consider donating online to the University of Iowa History of Medicine Society to sponsor events.

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University of Iowa History of Medicine Society calendar 2017/2018

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in this program please call Janna Lawrence at 319-335-9871.

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Oct 30 2017

Test Tube Babies During America’s Baby Boom : Artificial Insemination in Law & Medicine | HOM November Lecture | Thurs. Nov. 16, 6-7pm

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Kara Swanson, J.D., PhD. Professor of Law, Northeastern University

The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society and The Hardin Library for the Health Sciences John Martin Rare Book Room invite you to hear Kara Swanson, J.D., PhD., Professor of Law, Northeastern University for the November, 2017 lecture.

Thursday, November 16, 2017 6:00-7:00

Medical Education and Research Facility (MERF)  Room 2117
375 Newton Road, Iowa City

In 1978, Louise Brown, the first baby born as a result of in vitro fertilization, was heralded around the world as the first “test tube” baby. But for decades, doctors had been quietly practicing artificial insemination, the first successful assisted reproductive technology (ART). As the post-WWII baby boom swelled the numbers of would-be parents seeking fertility treatment, the challenges posed by the use of donor gametes spilled into courtrooms and popular culture. Worries about this new form of family formation shaped medical practice and ultimately, the law.

picture of babies falling from test tube into filePlease consider donating online to the University of Iowa History of Medicine Society to sponsor events.

Donate online to Hardin Library for the Health Sciences.

University of Iowa History of Medicine Society calendar 2017/2018

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in this program please call Janna Lawrence at 319-335-9871.

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Oct 07 2017

World War I – Medical Issues at Home and in the Field | History of Medicine Lecture | Thurs. Oct. 26, 5:30-7pm

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The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society invites you to hear:

World War I—Medical Issues at Home and in the Field

Thursday, October 26, 2017 5:30-7:00 p.m.
2117 MERF (Medical Education and Research Facility)

Panel Discussion:

  • Memoirs from the Font
    Dr. Charles Hawtrey, Professor Emeritus, Department of Urology, University of Iowa
  • Gas Warfare
    Dr. Dan Bonthius, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Iowa
  • Shell Shock
    Janet Schlapkohl, Managing Director, Combined Efforts: Celebrating Artists, Changing Perceptions
  • Manufacture of Vitamins and Supplements
    Amanda Bloomer, Wellness Staff, New Pioneer Coop
  • Memoirs and Stories From the Audience
    Dr. Charles Hawtrey 
Nurses and Doctor attending to WWI soldier. Image from Wellcome Library.

Please consider donating online to the University of Iowa History of Medicine Society to sponsor events.

Donate online to Hardin Library for the Health Sciences.

University of Iowa History of Medicine Society calendar 2017/2018

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in this program please call Janna Lawrence at 319-335-9871.

Sep 18 2017

Physicians as Collectors | History of Medicine Lecture | Thursday, Sept. 28, 5:30pm | Hardin Library

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Hardin Library for the Health Sciences and the University of Iowa History of Medicine Society invite you to a lecture by Elizabeth Yale,  PhD, History of Science, Harvard University.

Elizabeth Yale, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor, UI Center for the Book

Bring out Your Dead (Papers)! Early Modern Medical Practitioners as Archivists and Collectors

Thursday, September 28
5:30-6:30pm
401 Hardin Library for the Health Sciences

 

Early modern physicians built their libraries as dynamic, interactive information resources. They constructed their collections over many years, buying and inheriting books old and new. Alongside their books, they generated and passed on valuable caches of written records, including correspondence and medical casebooks.

This talk considers physicians as collectors of books and papers: what can their use of these materials tell us not only about their medical practices, but also their varied pursuits as naturalists, editors and authors, scientific reformers, and museum founders.

Please consider donating online to the University of Iowa History of Medicine Society to sponsor events.

Donate online to Hardin Library for the Health Sciences.

University of Iowa History of Medicine Society calendar 2017/2018

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in this program please call Janna Lawrence at 319-335-9871.

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May 15 2017

Lecture: Attracted to Ill Humors, or What Hope for Shakespeare’s Cachexic Couples? | Thurs., May 18, 5:30pm

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The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society invites you to a lecture by Kirilka Stavrena, Professor of English at Cornell College.

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Kirilka Stavrena

 Attracted to Ill Humors, or What Hope for Shakespeare’s Cachexic Couples? 

Professor Stavrena will explore the relationships of Hamlet and Ophelia from Hamlet and Katherina and Petruchio from The Taming of the Shrew.

Thursday, May 18
5:30pm-6:30pm
2117 MERF (Medical Education and Research Facility)

Please consider donating online to the University of Iowa History of Medicine Society to sponsor events.

 Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in this program please call Janna Lawrence at 319-335-9871.