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DITTRICK MEDICAL HISTORY CENTER

 
 

News Archives

 

March 26th, 2009; Handerson Medical History Lecture
Simon Chaplin (Royal College of Surgeons of England) Presents The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hunter

September 25, 2008, Zverina Lecture, Wendy Kline Ph.D., University of
Cincinnati, "Reproducing Our Bodies, Ourselves: birth control and the women’s health movement".

April 17, 2008, Handerson Lecture, Dr. Sam Alberti “Bodies on display:morbid specimens in nineteenth-century Britain”

October 18th, 2007, Zverina Lecture,  Jonathan Sadowsky Ph.D.
"The History of a Side Effect: Electroconvulsive Therapy and Memory Loss, 1940-The Present."

April 5, 2007 Handerson Lecture, Dawn Kemp
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Scotland & Medicine: Collections & Connections - the relevance of medical museums in the 21st century.”

Zverina lecture 2006, Andrea Tone, Bodies of Evidence: Uncovering the Lost History of Contraceptives in America

The Paris tour (April '06) photo album is now online      

Handerson Lecture 2006; Dr. Christian Fiala is a specialist in obstetrics and gynecology practicing in Vienna, Austria, recently established the Museum of Contraception and Abortion.

Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America's Women Physicians (Nov.-Dec. 2005)

Photo Album from Scotlands Medical Heritage Tour (Oct. 2005)

Presentation of the Contraception Collection: Reception honors Percy Skuy and Janssen-Ortho Inc. gift to the Dittrick (March 2005)

Contraceptive collection comes to the Dittrick at Case (August 2004)

Photo Album from the London Medical History Tour (Oct. 2004)

Handerson lecture 2005; Thomas Söderqvist, Ph.D. Professor of history of medicine and Director of the Medical Museion University of Copenhagen

Zverina lecture 2004; John Harley Warner, Ph.D. Yale University