Recent Garrison Lecturers

 

2011 Martin Pernick

 

2010 Keith Wailoo "The Politics of Pain: Liberal Medicine, Conservative Care and the Governance of Relief in America Since the 1950s"

2009 Katharine Park

2008 John Harley Warner

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.