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Lecture delivered by Ezelle Sanford III, PhD (Assistant Professor, Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University) on September 30, 2022. This event is a part of the IUPUI Center for Africana Studies and Culture's "Black Health Equity Speaker Series" and was cosponsored by the IUPUI Medical Humanities and Health Studies program and the John Shaw Billings History of Medicine Society. Includes an introduction by Leslie Etienne (Founding Executive Director of the Center for Africana Studies and Culture and Director of Africana Studies Program, IUPUI).
Mary Roach has been called “America’s funniest science writer” and has written six New York Times bestsellers including "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers" (2003), "Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex" (2008), and "Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal" (2013). In conversation with Bill Sullivan, professor at Indiana University School of Medicine and the author of "Pleased to Meet Me: Genes, Germs, and the Curious Forces That Make Us Who We Are" (2019), Mary shares some of the most bizarre and fascinating things she’s uncovered about medical history during her research and writing projects.
This event was co-sponsored by the John Shaw Billings History of Medicine Society;
IUSM Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology; IUSM Department of Anatomy,
Cell Biology & Physiology; IUSM History of Medicine Student Interest Group; and
the Ruth Lilly Medical Library.
Lecture presented by Ericka Johnson (Professor of Gender and Society, Linköping University, Sweden) on October 27, 2021. This event was sponsored by the John Shaw Billings History of Medicine Society, IU School of Medicine History of Medicine Student Interest Group, IUPUI Medical Humanities & Health Studies Program, and the Ruth Lilly Medical Library.
The prostate is the source of physical suffering and anxiety – anxiety about cancer and death, of course, but also erections and urination. It is intimately intertwined with what it means to be a man. Drawing on historical and modern sources, interviews with doctors and patients, medical texts, and cultural images of the prostate, Dr. Johnson's talk examines the history of prostate treatments, how it is treated today, what patients are met by when they seek care, and what medical technologies (including the PSA test) do to men worried about their prostate health. Her research stems from an interdisciplinary, medical humanities project conducted at Linköping University, Sweden.
Lecture delivered by Chris Flook (Public Historian; Senior Lecturer of Media, Ball State University) on September 22, 2023. In fall of 1902, Indianapolis police detectives uncovered a massive graverobbing ring. That summer, ghoulish body snatchers had plundered Marion County cemeteries for fresh corpses and sold them to medical colleges as cadavers. This presentation, based on Flook’s book, "Indianapolis Graverobbing: A Syndicate of Death," explores this history, the state’s anatomy laws at the time, and the trials of those involved.
This event was sponsored by the John Shaw Billings History of Medicine Society, IU School of Medicine History of Medicine Student Interest Group, IUPUI Medical Humanities & Health Studies Program, and the Ruth Lilly Medical Library.
Bowen Potter, Angela, Beckman, Emily, Hartsock, Jane A.
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Lecture delivered by Angela Bowen Potter, PhD (Medical Humanities Program Coordinator, Purdue University); Emily S. Beckman, DMH (Assistant Professor for Medical Humanities and Health Studies, IUPUI); and Jane A. Hartsock, JD, MA (Visiting Assistant Professor of Medical Humanities and Health Studies, IUPUI) on October 2, 2017.
Eduard Pernkopf’s Atlas of Topographical and Applied Human Anatomy is a four-volume anatomical atlas published between 1937 and 1963, and it is generally believed to be the most comprehensive, detailed, and accurate anatomy textbook ever created. However, a 1997 investigation into “Pernkopf’s Atlas,” raised troubling questions regarding the author’s connection to the Nazi regime and the still unresolved issue of whether its illustrations relied on Jewish or other political prisoners, including those executed in Nazi concentration camps. Following this investigation, the book was removed from both anatomy classrooms and library bookshelves. A debate has ensued over the book’s continued use, and justification for its use has focused on two issues: (1) there is no definitive proof the book includes illustrations of concentration camp prisoners or Jewish individuals in particular, and (2) there is no contemporary equivalent to this text. However, both points fail to address the central importance of the book, not simply as part of anatomy instruction, but also as a comprehensive historical narrative with important ethical implications.
Lecture delivered by Emily S. Beckman, DMH (Director and Assistant Professor, Medical Humanities and Health Studies, IUPUI) and Jane A. Hartsock, JD, MA (Director of Clinical Ethics, Indiana University Health) on March 19, 2021. This event was sponsored by the John Shaw Billings History of Medicine Society, IU School of Medicine History of Medicine Student Interest Group, IUPUI Medical Humanities & Health Studies Program, and the Ruth Lilly Medical Library.
Eduard Pernkopf’s Atlas of Topographical and Applied Human Anatomy is a four-volume anatomical atlas published between 1937 and 1963, and it is generally believed to be the most comprehensive, detailed, and accurate anatomy textbook ever created. However, a 1997 investigation into “Pernkopf’s Atlas” raised troubling questions regarding the author’s connection to the Nazi regime and the still unresolved issue of whether its illustrations relied on Jewish or other political prisoners, including those executed in Nazi concentration camps. Following this investigation, the book was removed from both anatomy classrooms and library bookshelves. Having encountered a first edition copy at the Ruth Lilly Medical Library, these authors were given a unique opportunity to engage with the text through the respective humanities lenses of history, ethics, and narrative. In this talk, Beckman and Hartsock recount the difficult and somewhat opaque provenance of this book, engage the ethical questions surrounding both its creation and its use, and ultimately propose a pedagogical methodology for its continued use in medical education.
Hartsock, Jane A., Nelson, Elizabeth A., Schwartz, Peter H., Wocial, Lucia, Larimer, Angeline, Robles, Emilio G., Hoffmann-Longtin, Krista, Yogo, Tah, Hoffer, Joshua, Hodges, Matt
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Presented virtually at the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) 23rd Annual Conference titled "Bioethics and Humanities at the Crossroads" on October 13, 2021. This session explores Kurt Vonnegut’s 1968 play, "Fortitude," through a dramatic reading and panel discussion, live-streamed from the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library in Indianapolis, Indiana. The play presents a futuristic scenario in which a woman is kept alive as just a head on a tripod, manipulated by machines being controlled by a physician mastermind. Following the reading, reflections by three panelists from the hosting institutions stimulate discussion of the play’s themes, including the purpose of medicine and ethical issues at the end of life and the role of the history of medicine and literature in framing these sensitive and important conversations.
Lecture delivered by Justin Rivest, PhD (Assistant Professor of History, Kenyon College) on April 5, 2024. This talk poses a fertile, if playfully anachronistic, historical question: In the final two decades of his seventy-two-year reign, did Louis XIV (r. 1643-1715) subsidize the world’s first “Big Pharma” companies into existence? From the 1680s onward the Sun King granted monopoly rights and government supply contracts, first to the court physician Jean-Baptiste Chomel, and then to the Dutch-born medical entrepreneur Adriaan Engelhard Helvetius (naturalized French as Adrien Helvétius). Both men developed proto-industrial operations that annually shipped tens of thousands of standardized medicine chests all over France and beyond. Building on relationships forged in supplying medicines to the French army, Rivest argues that they took advantage of supply problems in existing Catholic poor relief networks to provide their standardized medicines to the largest possible purchaser—the French absolutist state—and the largest possible consumer base—the peasants of rural France. Although grounded in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this talk raises questions about the connections between charity and capitalism; the role of private entrepreneurs in fulfilling the state objectives; and about how the state shapes markets as a consumer, rather than just as a regulator, that continue to have resonance in the twenty-first century.
This event was sponsored by the John Shaw Billings History of Medicine Society, IU School of Medicine Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology and Division of Clinical Pharmacology, IUPUI Medical Humanities & Health Studies Program, IU School of Medicine History of Medicine Student Interest Group, and the Ruth Lilly Medical Library.
John Shaw Billings History of Medicine Society lecture delivered by Isaac Djerassi, MD (Professor and Director of Oncology, Tel Aviv University Sackler School of Medicine) on February 23, 1993. Dr. Djerassi discusses and shows slides on his work in hematology, including his pioneering method for separating blood into platelets and its other component parts. He shows a progression of slides of the apparatus used.
The 1992 Steven C. Beering Award winner, Janet D. Rowley, MD of the University of Chicago, delivers a lecture to students and faculty at the Indiana University School of Medicine.
