Recent Garrison Lecturers


2012 Susan M. Reverby, "Enemy of the People, Enemy of the State: Two Great(ly Infamous) Doctors in the Court of History"


2011 Martin Pernick,"Disease and the Racial Division of Labor in America"


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


2009 Katharine Park, "Birth, Death, and the Limits of Life: Caesarean Section in Medieval and Renaissance Europe"


2008 John Harley Warner,"The Aesthetic Grounding of Modern Medicine"


2007 Steven J. Peitzman, "I Am Their Physician: Dr. Owen J. Wister of Germantown and His Too Many Patients," BHM 83 (2009): 245-270.


2006 Allan M. Brandt, "Globalization, Health and History"


2005 John M. Eyler, "De Kruif’s Boast: Vaccine Development and the Construction of a Virus," BHM 80 (2006): 409-438.


2004 Nancy J. Tomes, "The Great American Medicine Show Revisited," BHM 79 (2005): 627-663.


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.