March 13, 2024听 听 听2:30-4:00pm
, Harvard University听 听 听 听
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Racism, and Remembrance
William Osler considered Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) "the most successful combination which the world has ever seen, of the physician and man of letters." This talk examines the shifting depiction of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., as well as Holmes's evolving considerations of hereditary determinism and race over the course of the nineteenth century, as a test case concerning the evolving evaluation of historical figures in the history of medicine, from Holmes and Osler onward.
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Past Speakers
Nahyan Fancy, de Pauw University,听15 March 2023
Kirsten Ostherr, Rice University, 20 March 2022
Michael Stolberg, Institute for the History of Medicine, W眉rzburg, Germany, 1 April 2020
Sunil Amrith, Harvard University, 28 March 2019
Emma Spary, Cambridge University,听23 November 2016
Daniel Carpenter, Harvard University, 18听March 2015
Michael Hagner, ETH Zurich, 10 February 2012
Mike Harrington, Harvard University, 1 March 2010
Sander L. Gilman, Emory University, 30 March 2009
Allan Brandt, Harvard University, 5 March 2008
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