Category: Lectures

Positive Exposure Lecture

Today, October 21, 2013, at noon in room 550, 376 West 10th Ave, Rick Guidotti, photographer and director of Positive Exposure, will be given a lecture about the exhibit.

The exhibit will be hanging on the 5th floor through November 27. For more information, visit go.osu.edu/positiveexposure

11th Annual John C. Burnham Lecture in the History of Medicine

11th Annual John C. Burnham Lecture in the History of Medicine
featuring
Virginia Berridge
Centre for History in Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London

History and Horizon Scanning: What Does the Future Hold for Drugs, Alcohol and Tobacco?

There has been much discussion in the UK recently about a more ‘rational’ attitude to alcohol, illicit drugs and tobacco. It has been argued that the substances should be classified and regulated on the basis of their actual harms.

This lecture will subject those arguments to historical scrutiny. It will outline a process whereby the substances moved from cultural acceptability in the nineteenth century to different positions on the spectrum of regulation. This parting of ways was driven by forces external to the harms of the substances themselves and reached its peak during and just after World War One.

The lecture will then examine a different process since World War Two, one which has gathered pace in the last two decades. The substances seem in some respects to be moving closer together again. Tobacco smokers are ‘addicts’ while drug addicts are categorised as ‘users’. Neuroscience provides a common scientific model across the substances. Medicines become drugs and drugs, medicines. The implications of these developments are complex. What the future holds could be greater hedonism in society or, by contrast, more stringent controls.

Thursday, October 17, 2013
Reception at 4:00 pm; Lecture at 4:30 pm
OSU Health Sciences Library Medical Heritage Center (5th Floor)
Prior Hall, 376 West 10th Avenue, Columbus, OH
The Wexner Medical Center at The Ohio State University
FREE and open to the public

Parking: We suggest parking in the SAFEAUTO Hospitals Garage. Please visit http://medicalcenter.osu.edu/maps for maps and parking information.

2013 Annual James V. Warren Memorial Lecture

2013 Annual James V. Warren Memorial Lecture

featuring

Jeffery P. Baker, MD, PhD
Professor or Pediatrics and Director of the History of Medicine Program

Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities, and History of Medicine
Duke University and School of Medicine

“The Perfect Storm: The Roots of the Vaccine-Autism Controversy”

How did vaccines and autism become linked in the public’s mind? In this lecture, Dr. Baker will examine how this belief originated in the autism community’s response to the rising prevalence of the disorder in the late 1990s. The result was not one, but two vaccine/autism controversies. One in Britain centered upon the MMR vaccine, the other in the United States focused on mercury and preservatives. These histories will be discussed and reflections provided on the relevance of historical analysis to vaccine policy. This event is co-sponsored by Nationwide Children’s Hospital.

Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Reception at 4:00 pm; Lecture at 4:30 pm

OSU Health Sciences Library Medical Heritage Center
Prior Hall, Room 550
376 W. 10th Ave., Columbus, OH

FREE and open to the public.

Parking: We suggest parking in the SAFEAUTO Hospitals Garage. Click here for maps and parking information.

10th Annual John C. Burnham Lecture in the History of Medicine

The Ohio State University Department of History
and The Medical Heritage Center
Present
10th Annual John C. Burnham Lecture in the History of Medicine
Featuring
Dr. George Weisz
Cotton-Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine, McGill University

“The Reinvention of Chronic Disease in the 20th Century”

The term “chronic” has existed for many centuries to describe illnesses that unfold slowly, in contrast to acute diseases that either kill or disappear quickly. But in the early 20th century, “chronic disease” took on an entirely new meaning; it was reframed as a social problem that demanded significant reform of health care institutions. It has been argued that this development was a natural response to what has been called the “demographic transition”—that the decline in infectious diseases, allowed diseases like cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular disease to assume new significance. While this view has some validity, it ignores the fact that the process occurred almost exclusively in the United States until around the 1950s, when chronic disease appeared on a limited scale in Britain as part of an effort to deal with the institutionalized elderly. The term did not assume policy significance in France until the 21st century. In the first part of this talk I shall try to explain why the term emerged as a useful category of thought and action in the American health arena between 1920 and 1960 and how “objective” data was produced that confirmed the existence of a “chronic disease plague”. The second section of the talk will focus on France, where institutional conditions made the notion of chronic disease virtually invisible for much of the 20th century.

George Weisz is Cotton-Hannah Chair for the History of Medicine at McGill University. His recent books include Divide and Conquer: A Comparative History of Medical Specialization, 1830-1950 (2006) and, as co-editor, Body Counts: Medical Quantification in Historical and Sociological Perspectives // La Quantification médicale, perspectives historiques et sociologiques (2005) and Healing the World’s Children: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Child Health in the Twentieth Century (2008).  He is currently completing a book on Chronic Disease in the Twentieth Century for the Johns Hopkins University Press.

Thursday, October 25, 2012
Reception at 4:00 pm; Lecture at 4:30 pm
OSU Health Sciences Library Medical Heritage Center (5th Floor)

Prior Hall | 376 West 10th Avenue, Columbus, OH
Wexner Medical Center at The Ohio State University
FREE and open to the public
Parking: We suggest parking in the SAFEAUTO Hospitals Garage. Please visithttp://medicalcenter.osu.edu/pdfs/maps/finding_prkng_pad.pdf for maps and parking information. Visit go.osu.edu/mhc or call (614) 292-9966 for event information.

2012 Annual Heritge Lecture

2012 Annual Heritage Lecture
in memory of Charles F. Wooley, MD

Featuring
Ed Lentz
Local Historian, Educator and WOSU Commentator
Places of Haven and Hope: The Hospitals of Columbus and How They Came to Be

The story of health care in Central Ohio is a long, interesting and diverse one. Central to that story are the great hospitals. All of these large and complex institutions sprang from rather simple and sometimes rather unexpected origins. There are many stories to tell here, and in an illustrated lecture, historian Ed Lentz will share some of the better ones.

Thursday, September 27, 2012
Reception at 4:00 pm; Lecture at 4:30 pm

OSU Health Sciences Library Medical Heritage Center (5th Floor, room 550)
Prior Hall | 376 West 10th Avenue, Columbus, OH
The Wexner Medical Center at The Ohio State University
FREE and open to the public

Parking: We suggest parking in the SAFEAUTO Hospitals Garage. Please visit http://medicalcenter.osu.edu/pdfs/maps/finding_prkng_pad.pdf for maps and parking information. Visit go.osu.edu/mhc or call (614) 292-9966 for event information.

2011 Warren Lecture

2011 Annual James V. Warren Memorial Lecture

FEATURING Dr. George W. Paulson, MD

“The Pursuit of Excellence at the OSUMC: How Problems Became Progress”

Join us for a lecture and book signing by George W. Paulson, MD, in celebration of his recently-published book, In Pursuit of Excellence: The Ohio State University Medical Center– From 1834 to 2010. Dr. Paulson will briefly review the historical progress of the OSUMC from its inception in 1834 until the recent days. There will be emphasis on issues and problems which, after they were addressed, served both to enrich the academic quality and to enhance the delivery of patient care. Such problems included the location off campus, homeopathy, the practice plan battle, town gown concerns, and issues of competition. Problems for the future may include isolation from the local medical community, and optimal allocation of resources for research, teaching, and service. By any or all criteria OSUMC has done well, and the journey, the Pursuit, merits celebration and remembrance. Books will be available for sale and signing at the end of the lecture.

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Reception at 4pm; Lecture at 4:30pm

Dorothy M. Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute Auditorium (Room 170)

473 West 12th AvenueThe Ohio State University Medical Center Campus

FREE and open to the publicParking: We suggest parking in the 12th Avenue Garage.

Please visit http://medicalcenter.osu.edu/maps/Pages/index.aspx for maps and updated direction and parking information.

Visit http://mhc.med.ohio-state.edu/ or call (614) 292-9273 for event information.