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History of Sponsored Lectures
Morris H. Saffron Lectures (Spring Series) - Biography of Morris H. Saffron, M.D.
1980 Genevieve Miller, PhD The control of smallpox in England and colonial America
1981 Lloyd Stevenson, MD The typhoid patient
1982 Harry Dowling, MD The history of city hospitals in the United States
1983 Whitfield Bell, Jr., PhD Some early medical societies
1984 Lester King, MD When did medicine become scientific?
1985 Gert Brieger Family practice, ancient and modern
1986 Ynez Viole O’Neill An unfinished scientific revolution: medieval anatomical studies
1987 Kenneth Ludmerer, MD American medical education: past, present, and future
1988 Regina Morantz-Sanchez, MD To humanize, not feminize: the future of the woman doctor in the US
1989 Gerald Geison, PhD Pasteur, Toux, and rabies: scientific and clinical perspective
1990 Barbara Bates, MD What shaped the tuberculosis sanitorium?
1991 David Cowen, MA, LittD Pharmacists and physicians: a hate-love relationship
1992 W. Bruce Fye, MD Medical book collecting and scholarship: past, present, and future
1993 Nancy Tomes, PhD Spreading the germ theory
1994 William Helfand, ScD Nineteenth century addiction cures
1995 Sherwin Nuland, MD As others see us: the artist looks at the doctor
1996 Gerald Grob, MD American psychiatry: past, present, and future
1997 J. Worth Estes, MD Life and death at sea in the age of sail
1998 John Parascondola, PhD Anchor and caduceus: the creation of the USPHS
1999 Michael Bliss, PhD What’s a doctor? How William Osler practiced medicine
2000 William Sharpe, MD Middleton Goldsmith and antisepsis, 1863
2001 Elizabeth Norman, PhD We band of angels: the untold stories of American nurses on Bataan
2002 Charles Rosenberg, PhD Contested boundaries: disease, deviance, and diagnosis
2003 Keith Wailoo, PhD The strange career of race and cancer in America
2004 Bert Hansen, PhD Medical history for the masses: heroes of medicine in children’s comic books
2005 Allen Weisse, MD Medical History Society of NJ: still alive at twenty-five
2006 Lloyd Moote, PhD and Dorothy Moote The healing arts and caregivers during the great plague of London
2007 Lisa Gensel, MA The medical world of Benjamin Franklin
2008 Ann Wood Humphries, MS An enduring clarity: the life and work of Frank Netter, MD
2009 Charles S. Bryant, MD Gloria in absentia: Walter Reed and discovery of yellow fever transmission
2010 Sandra Longo and Debra Higgins Snake Hill: buried but not forgotten
2011 Norman Medow, MD The eyes: what do we know, when did we know it, and who knew it first?
2012 Stephen Pemberton, PhD The bleeding disease: hemophilia and the unintended consequences of medical progress
2013 Lawrence Altman, MD Adventures of a medical journalist
2014 James Oleske, MD A historical perspective on perinatal HIV infection
2015 Barron Lerner, MD, PhD Father, doctor, role model: The Good Doctor: A Son’s Look at an Earlier Generation
2016 Norman Cantor, JD Death and dying jurisprudence: forty years after the Karen Ann Quinlan decision
2017 Naomi Rogers, PhD Many memories of Sister Kenny: Polio and America’s Golden Age
2018 David Oshinsky, PhD Bellevue: Three centuries of medicine and mayhem at America’s most storied hospital
2019 Steven M. Marcus, MD Murder in the ICU: How the NJ Poison Information and Education System helped catch Charles Cullen, RN, serial killer
2020 David K. Randall Black Death at the Golden Gate
2021 Jonathan Engel, PhD The Genesis of Private Health Insurance in the United States
Donald F. Kent Lectures (Fall Series, 2013-) - Biography of Donald F. Kent, M.D., PhD
2013 Ira Rezak, MD The anatomy and physiology of medical medals
2014 Bert Hansen, PhD Louis Pasteur and the fine arts in France
2015 James Tait Goodrich, MD Mad ramblings on book collecting and bibliomania
2016 Samuel H. Greenblatt, MD Clinical neurology, evolution, and Victorian brain science: an introduction to John Hughlings Jackson
2017 Kathleen M. Boozang, JD, LLM, Jack M. Sabatino, JAD, and John Jacobi, JD Comparison and differences in the education and training of law students and medical students
2018 Randi Hutter Epstein, MD, MPH Growing up and growing pains: the history of human growth hormone
2019 Richard Veit, MD Fever! The history and archaeology of the Philadelphia Lazaretto: A precursor to Ellis Island
2020 (Cancelled, due to Covid-19 pandemic)
2021 William H. Frishman, MD The Health and Medical Care of the Presidents 1789-2020
2023 Paul Stepansky, PhD The Historical and Ahistorical Nature of Medical Caring
MHSNJ Invited Lectures (1993-2012)
Society, Corporate, and Foundation Lectures (Fall Series 1993-2010)
1993 David Kohn, PhD Aesthetics and the making of Darwin’s theory
1994 Donald Blaufox, MD Latter day encounters with radium: changing concepts of radioactivity
1995 Ira Rutkow, MD American surgery and the Civil War: a time of revolution
1996 Susan Lederer, PhD Moving pictures: animal experimentation and the silver screen
1997 Renee Fox, PhD Experiment perilous: forty-five years as a participant observer
1998 Steven Peitzman, MD Student life in the golden age of the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania
1999 Margaret Marsh, PhD Thinkin’ of maybe havin’ a baby…when I’m 64
2000 Vincent Cirillo, PhD Photographing the unseen: the Spanish-American War and military radiology
2001 Alan Kraut, PhD Deadly deficiencies: Dr. Joseph Goldberger’s war on disease and deprivation
2002 Edward Mormon, PhD Race and racism in America: the view from a medical history library
2003 Karen Reeds, PhD Keeping well in New Sweden: diet, disease, and medical plants
2004 Elizabeth Fee, PhD So, what’s new in the past: some treasures from the NLM
2005 Mark Silverman, MD De Motu Cordis: the Lumelian Lecture of 1616 by William Harvey
2006 Jock Murray, MD The case of the Halifax explosion of 1917
2007 Janet Golden, PhD Message in a bottle: fetal alcohol syndrome
2008 Margaret Humphreys, MD, PhD Of pox and paradox: typhus and smallpox in the American Civil War
2009 David Rosner, PhD Toxic torts and retorts: trials and tribulations of a historian in the courtroom
2010 Cynthia Connolly, RN, PhD The tuberculosis preventorium in American life: 1909-1970
Friends of the Society Lectures (Fall Series, 2011-2012)
2011 Lisa Rosner, PhD The horrid and true story of the Burke and Hare anatomy murderers
2012 (Cancelled, due to Hurricane Sandy)