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The Beaumont Medical Club of Connecticut
GEORGE ROSEN MEMORIAL LECTURE
Deborah Dwork
Flight from the Reich: Life as a Refuge
FRIDAY, March 25, 2011, 5:00—6:00 PM
Safe and, at the same time, beset by challenges, Jewish refugees from Nazi Europe sought valiantly to gain a foothold in their new homes. In this lecture, Holocaust historian and founding director of the renowned Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Clark University) Debórah Dwork will drill down on the precarious situation of refugee Jews, offering a fresh perspective on a history with which many, including the Rosen family, have a personal connection.
Debórah Dwork is the Rose Professor of Holocaust History and the Director of the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. Her now classic Children With A Star gave voice to the silenced children of the Holocaust; it was the first history of the daily lives of young people caught in the net of Nazism. Children With A Star received international critical acclaim and was translated into German, Italian, Dutch and Japanese. It was the subject of a documentary, also called “Children With A Star,” by the Canadian Broadcasting Company.
Auschwitz, co-authored with Robert Jan van Pelt, established the context in which historians now view that annihilation camp. Dwork and van Pelt argued that Germany sought to reconstruct Central Europe in its own image, and the Germans’ program at Auschwitz was key to that ambition. They drew the critically important connection between industrial killing and the daily functions of a society that believed it was involved in constructive activity. The BBC and PBS recognized Auschwitz as a remarkable project, and produced the Horizon/Nova television documentary “Blueprints of Genocide” (BBC) / “Nazi Designers of Death” (PBS) based upon it. Auschwitz also provided the core of a seven-part series “Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State,” which was aired in January 2005 in conjunction with the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the camp. Auschwitz received the National Jewish Book Award and the Spiro Kostof Award, given every other year to the best book on the physical environment. It has been translated into German, Dutch, and Czech, to much critical acclaim.
For more information see http://www.clarku.edu/departments/history/facultybio.cfm?id=394&progid=17
Anne-Marie Logan
How Rubens Taught Himself Anatomy-
A Look at his Anatomical DrawingsFRIDAY, March 26, 2010, 5:00—6:00 PM
Anne-Marie Logan received her PhD. from the University of Zurich and moved to Connecticut shortly thereafter. She was first introduced to the study of drawings during her work on the Catalogue of European Drawings and Watercolors 1500-1900 in the Yale University Art Gallery (Yale University Press, 1970) in collaboration with Professor E. Haverkamp-Begemann. A 5-year grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities to begin a catalogue raisonné of all the drawings by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) followed. Her work at Yale continued in the British Art Center, where she was the head of the Art Reference Library, Photo Archive, and Computerized Index of British Art. Following her retirement George Goldner, Drue Heinz Chairman, Department of Drawings and Prints, invited her in 2000-01 to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York as the J. Clawson Mills Fellow. Soon after her arrival he suggested she organize an exhibition of about one hundred of the best Rubens drawings from collections worldwide to be shown at the Albertina in Vienna (2004, in German) and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Peter Paul Rubens: The Drawings (2005, in collaboration with Michiel Plomp; published by Yale University Press). Her manuscript of the Rubens drawings is scheduled to be published by Brepols in Belgium in 2012 as part of the Pictura Nova series.
In 1987 ten, previously unknown anatomical drawings by Rubens came up for sale at Christie’s in London (July 6, lots 57-67). The present lecture will discuss how these and other Rubens drawings allow us to see how he learned and absorbed human anatomy.
Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), drawings in pen and ink or red chalk. Figures 1-2, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; 3-4 Private Collection. Figure 5, Paul Pontius after Rubens, etching, plate 12 in Rubens's Drawing Book
Susan Wheeler
Thomas Rowlandson and the Anatomists:
A Further Look at the Dissecting Room Drawings
FRIDAY, March 27, 2009, 5:00—6:00 PM
Susan Wheeler is Curator of Prints and Drawings, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at Yale University. She has spent her professional career at Yale, much of it associated with the Medical Historical Collections where she has researched and documented the collection of prints and drawings, overseen an early conservation program, and is currently expanding the collection through an active acquisition initiative. She is the author of Five Hundred Years of Medicine in Art, an illustrated catalogue of the Clements C. Fry Collection of prints and drawings at the library published in 2001. In conjunction with the Yale School of Medicine's Program for the Humanities in Medicine, she introduces medical and nursing students to art in the history of medicine through discussions of illustrated books, prints, and objects in the Library's collections.
The 2009 George Rosen Lecture "Thomas Rowlandson and the Anatomists: A Further Look at the Dissecting Room Drawings" commemorates Dr. Rosen's interest in art as a medium to be mined for historical information and his pursuit of art as a personal avocation. The lecture will highlight works from the Yale Medical Historical Collections which will be on view.
John M. Eyler
The Fog of Research: Vaccine Trials During the Great Influenza
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2008, 5:00—6:00 PM
John M. Eyler
Professor Program Director and Director of Graduate Studies History of Medicine Program
Education & Training
John Eyler received his B.A. in history from the University of Maryland (1966) and his Ph.D. in history of science from the University of Wisconsin (1971). After a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in the history of medicine sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, he taught for a year in the History Department of Northwestern University. The following year, 1974, he joined the History of Medicine Program at University of Minnesota.
His broad interest is the intersection of scientific expertise and modern society, particularly aggregate problems of health and health care: the history of disease, the development of health policy, the evolution of social welfare, the changing nature of hospitals, the history of public health and preventive medicine, and the history of epidemiology. Modern Britain and America are particular interests. He has published two books: Victorian Social Medicine: The Ideas and Methods of William Farr (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Pr., 1979); and Sir Arthur Newsholme and State Medicine, 1885-1935 (New York: Cambridge Univ. Pr., 1997). His articles and book chapters deal with the history of epidemiology and public health, with poverty and disease, with nineteenth-century theories of disease, and with history of vital statistics. He is currently studying influenza research in the twentieth century.
The Beaumont lectures are free and open to the public. The Beaumont Club lectures are held at Yale University in the Historical Library at the Sterling Hall of Medicine within the Yale School of Medicine campus. The address is 333 Cedar Street, New Haven. Lectures begin at 5:00 p.m. and end at 6:00 p.m. with tea served prior to each lecture at 4:30 p.m. Sherry is served immediately following the lecture. Dinner is served for Beaumont Medical Club members in the Beaumont Room and members are encouraged to make reservations as early as possible.
Founded in 1986, The George Rosen Memorial Lecture, honors a renowned figure in the history of medicine, whose writings, activism, and teaching were formative in shaping the course of current medical studies and public health policies.
George Rosen Memorial Lecturers
Michael Shepherd, 1986
Peter Gay, 1987
Julius Richmond, 1988
Saul Benison, 1989
David Rosner, 1990
John MacGregor, 1991
Alan Derickson, 1992
Dorothy Porter, 1993
Barbara Bates, 1995
Alan Brandt, 1996
Sherwin Nuland, 1997
Howard Markel, 1998
Jacalyn Duffin, 1999
Margaret Humphreys, 2000
Rosemary Stevens, 2002Franklin Robinson, 2003
Alan Kraut, 2004
Michael Merson, 2005
Charles Rosenberg, 2006
John M. Eyler, 2008
Susan Wheeler, 2009
Anne-Marie Logan, 2010
Deborah Dwork, 2011
Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale School of Medicine
