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1999/2000 HISTORY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES LECTURE SERIES
Wednesday, 27 October 1999, 5 to 6 p.m., Jordan Hall Conference Center
Auditorium
SUSAN E. LEDERER, PhD
Yale University School of Medicine
Making Monsters: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Medical Science
Dr. Lederer was the Visiting Curator for the exhibit, Frankenstein: Penetrating
the Secrets of Nature, at the National Library of Medicine of the National
Instates of Health in 1997. Dr. Lederer wrote Subjected to Science: Human
Experimentation in America before the Second World War (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995).
Wednesday, 1 December 1999, 5 to 6 p.m., Jordan Hall Conference Center
Auditorium
GREGORY MICHAEL DORR, PhD Candidate
University of Virginia Corcoran Department of History
Raising Human Thoroughbreds: Eugenics, Public Health, and Medical Education at
UVa
Mr. Dorr is a Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellow and an Honorary Graduate
School of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Fellow. His dissertation extensively
utilizes primary resources from University of Virginia Library Special
Collections and The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library Historical Collections
and Services.
Wednesday, 9 February 2000, 5 to 7 p.m., Jordan Hall Conference Center
Auditorium
MARTIN S. PERNICK, PhD
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor Department of History
The Black Stork: Eugenic Euthanasia in Early 20th Century
As part of his presentation Dr. Pernick will show excerpts from the only known
print of the historic film, The Black Stork, (1927). The movie explicitly
advocates death for the unfit. Dr. Pernick wrote The Black Stork: Eugenics
and the Death of Defective Babies in American Medicine and Motion Pictures
since 1915 (Oxford University Press, 1996, paperback 1999).
Wednesday, 29 March 1999, 5 to 6 p.m., Jordan Hall Conference Center Auditorium
KEITH WAILOO, PhD
University of North Carolina Department of Socia