Recent Garrison Lecturers

 

2005 John M. Eyler, “De Kruif’s Boast:  Vaccine Development and the Construction of a Virus”
2004 Nancy J. Tomes, "The Great American Medicine Show Revisited"
2003 Nancy Siraisi, "Medicine and the Renaissance World of Learning," BHM 77 (2004): 1-36.
2002 David J. Rothman, "Serving Clio and Client: The Historian as Expert Witness," BHM 77 (2003): 25-44.
2001 Martin Pernick -- declined
2000 Ludmilla Jordanova: "World Portraiture and Medical Identity"
1999 Henrich von Staden, "Reading and Therapy: Literacy and Medicine in the Ancient World."
1998 Vanessa Northington Gamble: "Taking a History: The Life of Dr. Virginia Alexander"
1997 Ronald L. Numbers: "Faith, Hope, and Charity: the Religious Roots of American Health Care"
1996 Michael R. McVaugh: "Bedside Manners in the Middle Ages," BHM 71 (1997):201-223.

1995

John C. Burnham: "How the Concept of the Profession Evolved in the Work of Historians of Medicine," BHM 70 (1996):1-24.
1994 Judith Walzer Leavitt, "A Worrying Profession: The Domestic Environment of Medical Practice in Mid-Nineteenth Century America," BHM 69 (1995): 1-29.
1993 Rosemary Stevens, "A Dangerous Occupation? The Historian as Reformer and Policy Maker."
1992 Roy Porter, "Disease Framed--Disease Fantisized? The Case of Gout," BHM 68 (1994):1-28.
1991 Geoffrey E.R. Lloyd, "The Transformation of Ancient Medicine," BHM 66 (1992):114-132.

For a complete list of the Garrison Lecturers, with the titles of their talks, please see the printed Membership Directory of the Association.

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