History of Medicine
The Houston History of Medicine Society presents this annual blue book course, which is open to UT medical students for credit, as well as the entire Texas Medical Center community. On the first Wednesday of each month, a noon-time presentation is given on a selected topic of the history of medicine.
With the exception of March 13, all lectures are held from 12:00 — 1:00 pm in Onstead Auditorium in the Basic Sciences Research Building, located at 6767 Bertner Avenue. The March 13 presentation is part of the Annual John P. McGovern Banquet and will be held at La Colombe d'Or Restaurant beginning at 6:30 pm.
In order to receive blue book credit, students must attend at least six lectures.
| September 7 | Obstetrical Forceps: History, Mystery, and Mortality | Ronald L. Young, M.D., Director, Division of Gynecology, Baylor College of Medicine | Abstract |
| October 5 | Aztec Medicine | Liliana Rodriguez, Dr.P.H., UTHealth Program in Gene-Environment Interaction | Abstract |
| November 2 | The Road to the Development of Curative Therapy for Systemic (Metastatic) Malignancy | Emil Freireich, M.D., Director, Adult Leukemia Research Program, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Hospital | Abstract |
| December 7 | Jean-Martin Charcot: Neurologist by Avocation, Nephrologist by Yearning | Gary Eknoyan, M.D., Baylor College of Medicine | Abstract |
| January 4 | The Rise and Fall of the Doctor-Patient Relationship | Thomas R. Cole, Ph.D., Director, McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics, UTHealth | Abstract |
| February 1 | Puerperal Fever from Hippocrates to Pasteur | Hunter A. Hammill, M.D., Women's Hospital of Texas and Member of the Semmelweis Society of Houston | Abstract |
| March 7 | Up in Smoke: How the Health Community Fiddled While Parliaments Burned | Alan Blum, M.D., The University of Alabama School of Medicine | Abstract |
| March 13 | Annual John P. McGovern Lecture and Banquet—Baylor College of Medicine and the Military | William Butler, M.D., Chancellor Emeritus, Baylor College of Medicine | Abstract |
| April 4 | Microbe Hunters Revisted — Paul de Kruif and the Beginning of Popular Science Writing | Stephen Greenberg, M.D., Dean of Medical Education, Baylor College of Medicine | Abstract |
| May 2 | Charlatan: John Brinkley, the Age of Flim-Flam, and the Emergence of Rational Medicine | William E. Fann, M.D., Baylor College of Medicine | Abstract |
For more information about or to register for this class, contact Angela.Polczynski@uth.tmc.edu.