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UCLA Programs in Medical Classics

The UCLA Programs in Medical Classics is a series of presentations designed to enhance an appreciation of the links among famous medical writings, clinical practice, basic research and humanistic scholarship. These meetings bring together a convivial group of individuals of scholarly tastes -- both from the community and from the UCLA faculty, students and staff -- for a lecture and an opportunity to examine texts and topics that embody the history of medicine, as well as the relations of medicine to broader cultural settings.

The Notorious Saenger Case: What Does It Tell Us About Post-World War II Medical Research Practices and Clinical Conduct

Gerald Kutcher, Ph.D.
Dean's Professor of the History of Medicine, The State University of New York at Binghamton

Tuesday, April 29
5 p.m.

During the 1960s, the physician Eugene Saenger treated patients with advanced cancers while he also used them as proxy soldiers for military research. For some critics, the Saenger case is paradigmatic of unethical research. Yet, the case has remained controversial and without closure for almost forty years. In this paper, I will argue that the Saenger case has survived so long in part because his research shared so much with "normal" post-war investigations and therefore that the case can be used as a lens to reveal the research practices and clinical conduct of that period.

A reception with light refreshments will follow the lecture.

This program is co-sponsored by the UCLA Healthcare Ethics Center

Printable PDF version of April announcement

First Floor Conference Room, 1357
Gonda (Goldschmied) Neuroscience and Genetics Research Center

Genetics Screening Programs for Sickle Cell Anemia and Thalassemia

Ruth Schwartz Cowan, Ph.D.
Janice and Julian Bers Professor of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

Thursday, May 15
5 p.m.

Introduction: Edward R.B. McCabe, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Pediatrics and Human genetics, and Bioengineering; Mattel Executive Endowed Chair of Pediatrics and Physician-in-Chief, Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA

A reception with light refreshments will follow the lecture.

This program is co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Society and Genetics

First Floor Conference Room, 1357
Gonda (Goldschmied) Neuroscience and Genetics Research Center

Previous Programs

The Architecture of Healing

The International Architecture of Healing Conference at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, celebrated the opening of the new Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center

Friday, November 16 and Saturday, November 17, 2007
Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium, UCLA
635 Charles E. Young Drive South

• The Origins of the Hospital
• The Commitment to Care v. The Commitment to Knowledge
• From Hospice to Health Care: An Illustrated History of Hospital Architecture
• Convergence of Art, Science and Technology: The Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center