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1998/99 HISTORY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES LECTURE SERIES
Wednesday, 30 September 1998, 5 to 6 p.m., Jordan Hall Conference Center Auditorium
MICHAEL BLISS, PhD
University of Toronto
Discovering the Insulin Documents: An Archival Adventure
Dr. Bliss wrote The Discovery of Insulin(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982) and Banting: A Biography (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1984) The film, Glory Enough for All: The Discovery of Insulin (Canada: Gemstone Productions, with Primedia Productions, 1988), is based on Dr. Bliss's books.
Wednesday, 11 November 1998, 5 to 6 p.m., Jordan Hall Conference Center Auditorium
ALFRED W. CROSBY, PhD
University of Texas at Austin
Epidemiological Imperialism: The Role of Infectious Disease in European Expansion
Dr. Crosby wrote The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 (Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Co., 1972) and Germs, Seeds & Animals: Studies in Ecological History (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1994). He also wrote Epidemic and Peace, 1918 (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1976), which was reprinted with a new preface as America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918 (Cambridge [England]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989).
Wednesday, 10 March 1999, 5 to 6 p.m., Jordan Hall Conference Center Auditorium
MICHAEL MCVAUGH, PhD
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Cataracts and Hernias: Aspects of Surgical Practice in the Fourteenth Century.
Dr. McVaugh wrote Medicine before the Plague: Practitioners and their Patients in the Crown of Aragon, 1285-1345 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993) and Medical Licensing and Learning in Fourteenth-Century Valencia (Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1989). He has also published many other books and articles on the history of medicine, medieval history, and the history of science.
Wednesday, 28 April 1999, 5 to 6 p.m., Jordan