Medical History and Bioethics
Colloquia: 2009-2010
Check individual entries for time and place.
Tuesday September 22
Lynn K. Nyhart,University of Wisconsin - Madison
“Isolation in Biogeography and Evolution from
Moritz Wagner to Ernst Mayr”
4:00pm , Memorial Library 984
Friday October 2
Dr. Stuart J. Youngner, Case Western Reserve, Chair of Bioethics Department
“The Dead Donor Rule and the Definition of Death:
Should We Keep Playing Cat and Mouse?”
Noon - 1:00 p.m
Friday October 2
Dr. Stuart J. Youngner, Case Western Reserve, Chair of Bioethics Department
"Creating Chimeras for Stem Cell Research: What Could be Bad About It?”
4:00-5:30pm, Room 1490, MSC
Tuesday October 20
Emily Grosholz, Pennsylvania State University
“The Representation of Time: Awareness, Mathematics, and the Puzzle of Asymmetry”
4:00 pm, Memorial Library 984
Tuesday October 27
Hugh Slotten, University of Otago
“Communication Satellites, Global History, and the Cold War”
Cosponsored by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and Department of Communication Arts
4:00 pm, Memorial Library 984
Monday November 16
Dr. Lainie Friedman Ross, Professor of Pediatrics and Bioethics at the MacLean Center for Bioethics at the University of Chicago
“Ethical Issues in Elective Transplantation”
Noon – 1:00 pm, CSC Room G5/113
Monday November 16
Dr. Lainie Friedman Ross, Professor of Pediatrics and Bioethics at the MacLean Center for Bioethics at the University of Chicago
“Ethical and Policy Issues in Predictive Genetic Testing in Children"
4:00-5:30pm, MHB 1490
Tuesday November 17
John L. Heilbron, University of Oxford
“Don Quixote among the Stars: Galileo Transformed by his Telescope”
Cosponsored by the Department of Astronomy, Isthmus Society, UW Space Place, the Department of Special Collections, and the Center for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
***6:30pm, Memorial Library 984
Tuesday December 1
Cynthia Connolly, Yale University
"TB or not TB: Children and Tuberculosis Prevention in the United States, 1900-1945"
4:00pm, Memorial Library 984
Previously in spring 2009:
March 24
Conevery Bolton Valencius, Harvard University
"Earthquakes, Cherokees, and the early-19th-century Mississippi Valley."
March 31
Jane Maienschein
Arizona State University
Arizona State University
"Regenerative Medicine and Society: Translation, Transplantation, and Stem Cells in Historical Context"
Cosponsored by the Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies
Chauncey Leake Lecture
*** In 5231 Social Sciences***April 24
Lorraine Daston, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science/University of Chicago
"The Passions of the Unnatural."
The Pyle Center, 7:30 PM.
Co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities (Humanities without Boundaries series).
May 5
Elizabeth Williams, Oklahoma State University
"'Frenchness' and Madness: National Identity and Psychopathology in Enlightenment France"
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