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John Harley Warner, Ph.D.
Thursday, October 28
John Harley Warner, Ph.D. Yale University
will present:
The aesthetic grounding of American medicine: Dissection-room photographic portraiture, medical student identity, and professional formation in the United States.
from 6:00 to 7:00 pm, in the Herrick Room, at the Allen Memorial Medical Library
Please RSVP via phone by October 22. Phone: 216-368-3648 or email: jks4@case.edu
Photo from the Dittrick's collection of
dissection photography. Medical Students
studying.
John Harley Warner is Professor of the History of Medicine, of American Studies, and of History at Yale University and is considered the leading authority on the formation of American physicians' professional identity. Important works on this subject by Professor Warner include The therapeutic perspective: medical practice, knowledge, and identity in America, 1820-1885 (1986), Against the spirit of system: the French impulse in nineteenth-century American medicine (1998), and with Janet A. Tighe, Major problems in the history of American medicine and public health : documents and essays (2001). For the 2004 Zverina lecture, Professor Warner will draw heavily upon the Dittrick's collection of photographs depicting medical students with their cadavers in anatomy classes, c. 1870-1920.
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