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"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again."
– Maya Angelou

Schedule of Speakers 2012-2013

Date: First Wednesday of each month
Time: Noon - 1 p.m.
Place: Onstead Auditorium, MD Anderson Hospital

Speaker Schedule 2012-2013
Date Speaker Topic
Sept. 5, 2012 Thomas R. Cole, Ph.D. The History of the Doctor-Patient Relationship
Oct. 3, 2012 Jason Glenn, Ph.D. Dehumanization, the Symbolic Gaze, and the Production of Biomedical Knowledge
Nov. 7, 2012 Kirsten Ostherr, Ph.D. Lessons from the History of Medical Social Media and Reality TV
Dec. 5, 2012 W. Andrew Achenbaum, Ph.D. Robert N. Butler, Aging's Visionary
Jan. 9, 2013 Susan Benedict, CRNA, DSN, FAAN Nurses During National Socialism
Feb. 6, 2013 Stephen B. Greenberg, M.D. John Morris Sheppard and the Social Transformation of American Medicine
March 6, 2013 Bryant Boutwell, Dr.P.H. John Shaw Billings and the National Library of Medicine
April 2, 2013 John P. McGovern Banquet
James B. Young, M.D.
Progress and Paradigm Shifts in Medicine: The Death of Garfield and the "Wisdom of History"
April 3, 2013 David Oshinsky, Ph.D. The History of Polio
May 8, 2013 Robert Rakel, M.D. The History of Torture: Man's Inhumanity to Man