Dittrick Medical History Center Audio Archive

Below, you will find the audio recordings of Dittrick Medical History Center’s annual lectures, book events, and more.


Chris Henry (Director of Heritage for the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh)

The Lister Project at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh: Museums within a Museum
Handerson Lecture, March 19th, 2015

 

Kate Manning
Book launch and author talk on My Notorious Life
September 23rd, 2014

 

Lucy Inglis (Museum of London)
Jan Van Rymsdyk: Medical Illustrator Extraordinary
Handerson Lecture, Feb. 20th, 2014

 

Joel D. Howell, M.D. PhD. (University of Michigan)
Machines and medicine: tools, technology, and the transformation of patient care
Lecture Nov. 14th, 2013

 

Lindsey Fitzharris Ph.D.
Medicine’s Dark Secrets
Anton and Rose Zverina Lecture, Oct. 3rd, 2013

 

Brandy Schillace Ph.D. (Case Western Reserve University)
Re-conceiving Birth: Our Shared Entrance to the World Stage
Exhibit and Lecture, Oct. 3rd, 2013

 

Natasha McEnroe (Director of The Florence Nightingale Museum, London, UK)
From Personality to Profession: The Florence Nightingale Museum and the history of nursing
Handerson Lecture, 2013

 

Robert Reid M.D. (Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada)
Doctors without borders: Sexual and reproductive health in the electronic era
Percy Skuy Lecture, 2013

 

Stanley B. Burns, M.D., FACS, (New York University)
Understanding and Unlocking the Past Through Iconic Photographs:
Images from the Burns Collection – Medicine, War, Racism, Crime, and Memorial Photography
Anton and Rose Zverina Lecture, 2012

 

Heather Ault 4000 Years for Choice
TRUST. WOMEN. ART: Claiming & Creating History
Exhibit and Lecture, 2012


Dr. Ken Arnold (Wellcome Collection, London)
Medicine Show: Science, Art and Health at Wellcome Collection
Handerson Lecture, 2012

 

Heather Munro Prescott Ph.D. (Central Connecticut State University)
The Morning After: A History of Emergency Contraception in the United States
Special Winter lecture

 

Mary E. Fissell Ph.D. (John Hopkins University)
Something Borrowed, Something Blue: The Strange History Of Aristotle’s Masterpiece
Anton and Rose Zverina lecture, 2011

 

Lisa Rosner Ph.D. (Stockton College)
The True and Horrid Story of the Burke and Hare Anatomy Murders
Special Fall Lecture, 2011

 

Joanna Ebenstein (Morbid Anatomy Blog)
Anatomical Venuses, Slashed Beauties, and Three Fetuses Dancing a Jig:
An Illustrated Journey into the Curious World of Medical Museums

Medical Museums Lecture 2011

 

Nina Rattner Gelbart Ph.D. (Occidental College)
Birthing a Nation: Mme du Coudray and the practice
of midwifery in Enlightenment France

Zverina Lecture 2010

 

Helen Horowitz Ph.D. (Smith College)
How Contraceptives Became Illegal: The Origins of the Comstock Law

Zverina Lecture 2009

 

Wendy Kline, Ph.D. (University of Cincinnati)
Reproducing Our Bodies, Ourselves:
birth control and the women’s health movement.
Zverina Lecture 2008

 

Andrea Tone Ph.D. (McGill University)
Bodies of Evidence: Uncovering the Lost History of Contraceptives in America
Zverina lecture 2006.