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