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

September 18, 2013 / rodgers.102@osu.edu / Comments Off

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.

Graduates PDF now available

June 10, 2013 / rodgers.102@osu.edu / Comments Off

Graduates, 1836-1968

The most common research question the Medical Heritage Center (MHC) receives is from family members looking for confirmation of when their ancestor graduated from medical school.

The MHC has catalogs from the following medical schools that were used to compile the data for this searchable PDF. In certain cases people do appear as a student at some point but were never listed as a graduate. These individuals were included in the database with no graduation date listed.

Willoughby University of Lake Erie (1836-1846)
Willoughby Medical College of Columbus (1847)
Starling Medical College (1847-1907)
Columbus Medical College (1876-1892)
Ohio Medical University (1892-1907)
Starling-Ohio Medical College (1907-1914)
The Ohio State University College of Medicine (1914 – 1968)

Additionally, in many cases the MHC has a photograph of the graduating class. If you locate your ancestor, please contact us to see if we have a photograph.

The PDF is located at: https://hsl.osu.edu/sites/hsl.osu.edu/files/Graduates.pdf

2013 Annual James V. Warren Memorial Lecture

May 20, 2013 / rodgers.102@osu.edu / Comments Off

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.

MHC Open House May 1

April 30, 2013 / rodgers.102@osu.edu / Comments Off

Part of the Commencement Week Things You Never Got to See Tour

Medical Heritage Center Open House

May 1, 2013

Prior Health Sciences Library (376 West 10th Ave) room 580, 1-4pm

Students will see treasures from the collections of the Medical Heritage Center including our oldest book De humani corporis fabrica libri septem (On the fabric of the human body in seven books) written by Andreas Vesalius in 1555, trephining kit, bleeding bowl and scarificator, and a 1907 scrapbook from Ohio Medical University.

2013 Annual Friends of Nursing History Lecture

April 22, 2013 / rodgers.102@osu.edu / Comments Off

2013 Annual Friends of Nursing History Lecture

Featuring

Local Nursing Legends, Class of 2013

Join us for an event honoring our second class of local nursing legends.
Pioneers in their field, these 11 nurses were nominated by members of the central Ohio nursing community and approved by the Medical Heritage Center Friends of Nursing History Steering Committee for making a significant contribution to the nursing profession and the health care of people in central Ohio.

Those recognized include: Carole A. Anderson; Deborah A. Coleman; Pamela S. Dickerson;
Debbie Cannon Freece; William F. Hartnett; Jeri A. Milstead; Barbara A. Nash;
Mary Ann Browder Rollins; Ann Schiele; Rita J. Smith; and Mary Ellen Wewers.

This event is co-provided by the MHC Friends of Nursing History Steering Committee and the Ohio Nurses Foundation. 1.0 contact hour will be awarded to Nursing participants. The Ohio Nurses Association (OBN-001-91) is an accredited provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Reception at 4pm; Lecture at 4:30pm

OSU Health Sciences Library Medical Heritage Center (5th Floor)

376 West 10th Avenue, Columbus, OH

The Ohio State University Medical Center Campus

FREE and open to the public

Parking: We suggest parking in SAFEAUTO Hospitals Garage, conveniently located next to the Ross Heart Hospital. Please visit http://medicalcenter.osu.edu/pdfs/maps/finding_prkng_pad.pdf for maps and parking information. Visit http://hsl.osu.edu/mhc or call (614) 292-9966 for event information.

Alpha Kappa Kappa Pi Chapter

April 2, 2013 / rodgers.102@osu.edu / Comments Off

AKK on Parade, c. 1906

Alpha Kappa Kappa Pi Chapter at the Ohio Medical University was chartered by the National Medical Fraternity on October 2, 1902.

In 1906 Phi Sigma Psi, a local fraternity at Starling Medical College (1848-1907), petitioned for a charter and was approved. Before the charter was granted, the AKK Council was advised that Starling Medical College and Ohio Medical University (1892-1907) were merging to form Starling-Ohio Medical College (1907-1914) which meant that the men of Phi Sigma Psi could join forces with AKK without the necessity of issuing a new charter. They had 113 members.

The first Chapter house was at 688 North High Street which housed 12 men for the year. After this, they lived at various addresses: 68 Buttles Avenue, 797 Dennison Avenue, and 216 Marshall Avenue. In 1923, the Pi Chapter Company was formed to purchase a house at 199 W. Tenth Avenue. This was later enlarged by purchasing the house to the west and joining them together with an addition. The final Chapter house was erected at 466 King Avenue in 1966. The AKK Pi Chapter ceased operations in 1974.

Columbus Medical College Class of 1877

March 18, 2013 / rodgers.102@osu.edu / Comments Off

Columbus Medical College graduates, class of 1877

Columbus Medical College, 1876-1892

In 1875 a sharp dispute arose about making Dr. James Fairchild Baldwin professor of physiology in the Starling Medical College. Dr. Baldwin seemed to some of the faculty well-suited for the job, but Dr. Starling Loving and the administration thought otherwise. Dr. Howard Jones of Circleville was chosen. As a result of this defeat, Drs. John W. Hamilton, D. N. Kinsman, H. C. Pearce and Davis Halderman resigned and organized the Columbus Medical College. During the first seven years the college was conducted in the Sessions Block of High Street. In 1882 Dr. W. B. Hawkes gave four lots on Columbus’ west side and $10,000 toward a hospital to serve the Columbus Medical College. In 1886 the Hawkes Hospital of Mt. Carmel was erected.

About 500 students graduated from this college. In 1892, carrying with it its hospital facilities, Columbus Medical College was merged into Starling Medical College, but some of the faculty could not go along with the merger and joined Dr. J. F. Baldwin and others in the organization of the Ohio Medical University.

Second Blessing Digital Exhibit

March 11, 2013 / rodgers.102@osu.edu / Comments Off

The Second Blessing: Columbus Medicine and Health The Early Years is a book written by former Medical Heritage Center scholars Charles F. Wooley and Barbara A. Van Brimmer. Copies of the book are available for purchase by contacting the MHC.

The digital exhibit of the book showcases each chapter and can be viewed by visiting our website: http://hsl.osu.edu/mhc/second-blessing-columbus-medicine-and-health-early-years

Local Nursing Legends

March 4, 2013 / rodgers.102@osu.edu / Comments Off

Based on a national model developed to recognize outstanding physicians, the Local Nursing Legends program is overseen by the Friends of Nursing History Steering Committee of the Medical Heritage Center (MHC) at The Ohio State University. The MHC was established to collect, promote, and preserve the rich health sciences history of central Ohio.

The Local Nursing Legends have made a significant contribution to the nursing profession and the health care of people in central Ohio. Pioneers in their field, these nurses were nominated by members of the central Ohio nursing community as those who provided exemplary service to this population and whose actions and lives can be seen as legendary.

The MHC is working to induct 11 new legends. These individuals will be recognized at our upcoming lecture on April 25, 2013.

For more information about past legends, please visit our digital exhibit at http://hsl.osu.edu/mhc/local-nursing-legends

Happy 210th Birthday Ohio!

February 19, 2013 / rodgers.102@osu.edu / Comments Off

Postcard of High Street, near Broad

Happy 210th Birthday Ohio! Ohio’s first constitution was approved by Congress, and then signed by President Thomas Jefferson on Feb. 19, 1803. To read more about all of the great history in Ohio particularly as it relates to Statehood Day (to be celebrate on Feb . 27), follow this link to the Ohio Historical Society’s website: http://www.ohiohistory.org/about-us/advocacy/statehood-day

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