Medical Humanities - Health Studies Program

Multimedia Archive

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John Shaw Billings Presentations

William Schneider, Ph. D. Iupui/IUSM
"The origins of medical research grants in the U.S.: From the Rockefeller Foundation to NIH, 1930-1950"
Dec. 8 4:00 location TBA

Stephen Jay, M.D., IUSM
"Inconvenient Truth: Legacy of a Creative Bacillus."
or
Bocarme's Science, Sin, and Salvation--an the first use of science to commit murder and novel science used to convict the murderer.
January 13 Location TBA

Charles Bonsett, M.D.
Unsung "Fathers" of IUSM
Date TBA, Location TBA

Nancy L. Eckerman
Ruth Lilly Medical Library
Special Collections/History of Medicine
Nursing
975 W. Walnut Street IB 100
Indianapolis, IN 46202-5121
317-274-2076
Fax 317-2782349
Website: John Shaw Billings History of Medicine Society

Files

A Sound Medicine interview of Cancer Stories Symposium plenary speaker, Martha Stoddard Holmes, Ph.D., by Ora Pescovitz, M.D., titled "Telling Cancer Stories." (.mp3 - music file for Real Player or iTunes)
November 16, 2008

A lecture given by Larry Cripe, M.D. (Associate Professor, Department of Medicine and Member, Indiana University Simon Cancer Center) titled "In the Shadow of Hope: Truth Telling in Oncology." (.ppt - PowerPoint presenation)
January 15, 2008

A lecture given by Dr. James Watson (Assistant Professor of Anthropology, IUPUI) titled "The Death of the Thrifty Genotype Hypothesis: Type-II Diabetes in Native Populations." (.ppt - PowerPoint presentation)
January 16, 2007

A lecture given by Jim Yong Kim, M.D., Ph.D. (Chair, Harvard Medical School Department of Social Medicine;
Director, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health;
Head, Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston;
Former Director, World Health Organization HIV/AIDS unit; Former Executive Director and Founding Trustee, Partners in Health) titled "Bridging the Implementation Gap in Global Health" (.rm - Real Media audio)
October 27th, 2006

A lecture on rural healthcare in Northern Cameroon by Ellen Einterz, M.D., titled "Through the Keyhole: A Glimpse at Healthcare in Northern Cameroon" (.mp3 - audio file)
September 14th, 2006

A lecture by Jim Morris (former Executive Director of the United Nation's World Food Program) titled "Hunger, Health and Children" (.wmv - Windows Media Video)
November 17th, 2005

A lecture on the history of women and eugenics by Alexandra Stern, Ph.D. (University of Michigan) titled "Fitter Families, Better Babies, and Reproductive Control" (.mp3 - audio file)
October 10th, 2005

A transcription of a lecture by Ellen Einterz, M.D. on medicine in rural northern Cameroon. (.pdf - portable document format file)
September 16th, 2004

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Medical Humanities - Health Studies Program
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
425 University Boulevard, Cavanaugh Hall Room 406
Indianapolis, IN 46202-5140
(317) 274-4740

Medical Humanities - Health Studies Program

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