The History of Medicine Society (HOMS) at Tulane

The Following Talks Have Been Given at the annual B. Bernard Weinstein Lectures:

1950's

1953 - Dr. Abraham Levinson, Chicago - "Some Pediatricians I Have Known"

1954 - Dr. Ben Moffet, Birmingham - "History of Anatomic Illustrations"

1955 - Dr. Alton Ochsner, New Orleans - "Chicago Medicine"

1956 - Dr. Robert S. Munger, Lexington - "The Holy Wood"

1957 - Dr. M. Leopold Brodny, Chicago - "The History of Urology"

1958 - Prof. Harold Cummins, New Orleans - "The Quiet Life of an Anatomist"

1959 - Mr. Henry Schumann, New York - "Book Collectors I Have Known"

1960's

1960 - Dr. Carlos P. LaMar, Miami - "History of Diabetes"

1961 - Mr. W.D. Postell, New Orleans - "Magnolia Vale"

1962 - Dr. M. Edward Davis, Chicago - "Joseph B. DeLee"

1963 - Prof. H.S. Mayerson, New Orleans - "Carlson and Cannon - A Study in Contrasts"

1964 - Prof. M.L. Marshall, New Orleans - "A Medical Student of 100 Years Ago"

1965 - Dr. Richard H. Shryock, Philadelphia - "The Development of American Medical Education"

1966 - Dr. Robert Heath, New Orleans - "Chemotherapy in Psychiatry"

1967 - Dr. Vincent Derbes, New Orleans - "Eunuchs"

1968 - Dr. Lester S. King, Chicago - "Definition of Disease - A Problem in Medicine"

1969 - Dr. Chauncey Leake, San Francisco - "The Ancient Medical School of Salerno and Its Revival"

1970's

1970 - Dr. Harvey Young, Atlanta - "Medical Quackery - Then and Now"

1971 - Dr. William B. Ober, New York - "Medical Analysis of Literary Problems"

1972 - Dr. Owsei Temkin, Baltimore - "Diseases of the Famous"

1973 - Mr. Charles B. Snyder, Boston - "The Doctor and His Doxy"

1974 - Edward B. Ferguson, New Orleans - "Franz Volhard (1872-1950), Father of 20th Century Nephrology"

1975 - Dr. Jeffrey P. Ellison, New Orleans - "Medical Training: The State of The Art"

1976 - Dr. Chester R. Burns, Galveston - "Richard Larke Cabot (1868-1939) and American Medical Ethics"

1977 - Dr. Willard L. Marmelzat, Los Angeles - "Roots, Ghosts, And Genes - A Native Son Returns"

1978 - Dr. Michael DeBakey, Houston - "Some Significant Historical Developments in Cardiovascular Surgery"

1979 - Dr. H. Tristam Englehardt, Washington D.C. - "Foucault and the Subordination of the Clinic"

1980's

1980 - Dr. Gerald E. Geison, Princeton - "Disease Patterns, Medical Efficacy, and the Physician's Role in Western Society"

1981 - Dr. Arthur J. Viseltear, New Haven - "Charles-Edward Amory Winslow and the Heroic Age of Public Health"

1982 - Dr. Stanley J. Reiser, Boston - "The Machine in the Doctor's Life"

1983 - Edmund Pellegrino, Washington, D.C. - "The Stoic Origins of Medical Humanism"

1984 - Dr. Robert P. Hudson, Kansas City - "The Psychology of Quackery"

1985 - Dr. Robert T. Joy, Washington, D.C. - "Modern Medicine Goes To War"

1986 - Prof. Todd L. Switt, Greenville, N.C. - "Educating Black Physicians in New Orleans and the South: 1865-1920"

1987 - Dr. J. Worth Estes, Boston - "Public Pharmacology: Sites and Modes of Action of 19th Century Patient Medicines"

1988 - Dr. Ronald L. Numbers, Madison - "The Making of a Medical Monopoly: Myth or Reality?"

1989 - Dr. Sherwin Nuland, New Haven - "Discovering the History of Medicine"

1990's

1990 - Dr. Arthur Guyton, Jackson - "William Harvey's Understanding of Circulatory Physiology: How Far Have We Come in the Last 400 Years"

1991 - Dr. Samuel Shem, Boston - "The House Of God - A Historical Perspective"

1992 - Dr. Ellen More - "Women Physicians and American Medicine (1850-1992)"

1993 - Dr. Norman E. Thagard - "Space Medicine"

1994 - Dr. John Salvaggio, New Orleans - "The History of Charity Hospital"

1995 - Dr. Donald R. Hopkins, Atlanta - "The History of Smallpox"

1996 - Dr. Richard Fox - "The Leveling Winds of Surgery"

1997 - Dr. Claude H. Organ, Jr. - "Dr. Richard Drew: Beyond the Myths"

1998 - Dr. Robert W. Schrier, Colorado - "Illnesses of the U.S. Presidents in the 20th Century: Potential Impact on History"

1999 - Dr. James B. Young - "The History of Solid Organ Transplantation: From Magical Perceptions to Parts Replacement"

2000's

2000 - Dr. Edward D. Frahlich - "Hypertension and Monitoring"

2001 - Dr. Laurie Garrett - "The Rise and Fall of Public Health: 1900-2000"

2002 - Dr. Richard Selzer- "The Doctor as Writer"

2003 - Dr. Robert L. Martensen - "Disease and History"

2004 - Dr. Robert Grossman - "How Do We Know What Happened in History? A Neurosurgeon's Eyewitness Account of the Death of President Kennedy at Parkland Hospital"

2005 - Dr Gustavo Colon, New Orleans - "The History of Rudolph Matas"

2006 - Dr. Stephen B. Greenberg - "Abraham Flexner and William Osler on the Education of Medical Students"

2007 - Dr. Hector Ventura, New Orleans- " The History and Future of Cardiology"