Lectures take place at the Hektoen Institute, 2100 W. Harrison Street.
Free Parking. Enter on Hoyne Street.
A reception for each presentation will take place at 5:30 p.m.
All presentations will begin at 6:15 p.m.
Cost: $15
February 5, 2008
The Evolution of the Brain: A Primatological Perspective By Professor Robert D. Martin, A Watson Armour III Curator of Biological Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, The Field Museum, Chicago.
March 11, 2008
Tuberculosis: A Journey Through Time by Mindy Schwartz, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago.
April 8, 2008
Historical Perspective on Depression and Psychosis by Elizabeth Steinhauer, MD, Staff Psychiatrist, Student Counseling & Resource Service, University of Chicago
Therapeutic Photomontage: Wishful Reality for Countering Loss - Exhibition and Art Talk in Hektoen lobby during reception by digital artist Nancy Gershman. Visit her studio, Art For Your Sake, at http://www.artforyoursake.com
May 6, 2008
Morris Fishbein Lecture, The Mid-Century American Anti-Vaccination Movement, as Uncovered in the Secret Archives of the American Medical Association by Robert D. Johnston, Ph.D., Associate Professor, History Department, University of Illinois at Chicago.
June 3, 2008
Rudolf Virchow: Pathologist, Anthropologist and Social Thinker by Elliot Weisenberg, MD, Department of Pathology, Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center
September 9, 2008
The Abnormal In Medicine by Alice Dreger, PhD., Associate Professor of Clinical Medical Humanities and Bioethics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University.
October 7, 2008
Creative Thinking in Biomedical Sciences by Lydia Usha, M.D. Assistant Professor, Section of Medical Oncology, Director, Rush Inherited Susceptibility to Cancer (RISC) Center, Dept. of Internal Medicine, Rush University Medical Center
November 12, 2008
Presentation on Art & Medicine by Ms. Therese Southgate, M.D., Senior Contributing Editor, JAMA. Co-presented by Hektoen’s Nurses & the Humanities.
December 2, 2008
Visualizing AIDS: AIDS in Cinema and Television by Clara Orban, PH.D. Professor, French and Italian, DePaul University
February 3, 2009
Cannibalism: Just What the Doctor Ordered by Carole A. Travis-Henikoff, Independent Scholar
March 3, 2009
Stories Out of School: Memoirs of Medical Education by Suzanne Poirier, PhD., Associate Professor Emerita, Medical Humanities, University of Illinois in Chicago
April 7, 2009
To view the list of past lectures and events please click here.Rats, Lice, Zinsser and Rockefeller by Philip Liebson, M.D., Rush University Medical Center.
