THE ARCHITECTURE OF HEALING
An International Conference at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Friday-Saturday, November 16-17, 2007
- FRIDAY MORNING PROGRAM
8:30 am Registration and Coffee/Tea – includes sign-up for tours of the new Medical Center
9:15 am Welcome
Gene D. Block, Ph.D.
Chancellor, UCLA
THE ORIGINS OF THE HOSPITAL
9:30 EARLY CHRISTIAN HOSPITALS: CARING AND CURING
Peregrine Horden, Ph.D.
Professor of Medieval History, Royal Holloway College, University of London, United Kingdom
10:20 COFFEE BREAK
10:40 BIMARISTAN, THE ISLAMIC HOSPITAL: INNOVATION AND TRADITION
Peter E. Pormann, Ph.D.
Wellcome Trust Lecturer, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Warwick,
United Kingdom
11:30 Commentary, Discussion and Audience Questions
Claudia Rapp, Ph.D.
Professor of History, UCLA
12:00 Lunch (Boxed lunch included with registration)
- FRIDAY AFTERNOON PROGRAM
THE COMMITMENT TO CARE v. THE COMMITMENT TO KNOWLEDGE
1:15 Welcome
Gerald S. Levey, M.D.
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
THE COMMITMENT TO CARE v. THE COMMITMENT TO KNOWLEDGE
Chair:
Marcia L. Meldrum, Ph.D.
Researcher, Departments of History, Pediatrics and Neurobiology, UCLA
1:30 PRINCIPLES AND METHODS OF CLINICAL RESEARCH
Ted Kaptchuk, O.M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard University
2:15 HOW TECHNOLOGY HAS SHAPED CLINICAL RESEARCH AT THE BEDSIDE
Joel Howell, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of History, Internal Medicine, and Health Services Management and Policy, Director of the Program in Society and Medicine, University of Michigan
3:00 Coffee Break in the Lobby
3:30 THE PATIENT IN CLINICAL RESEARCH:REVISITING THE BARNEY CLARK CASE
Barron Lerner, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine and Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University
4:15 Commentary, Discussion and Audience Questions
Marcia Meldrum, Ph.D.
5:00 RECEPTION in the Rare Book Room, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library
- SATURDAY MORNING PROGRAM
8:45 Registration and Coffee/Tea
9:15 Welcome
Gary E. Strong, M.L.S.
University Librarian, UCLA
FROM HOSPICE TO HEALTH CENTER
Chair:
Katharine E.S. Donahue, M.L.S.
Associate Director for Special Collections and Head, History & Special Collections, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA
9:30 AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF HOSPITAL ARCHITECTURE:
FROM HOSPICE TO HEALTH CENTER
Axel Karenberg, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Institut für Geschichte und Ethik der Medizin, Universität zu Köln
10:15 Coffee break in the lobby
10:305 CONVERGENCE OF ART, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY: THE RONALD REAGAN UCLA MEDICAL CENTER
James B. Atkinson, M.D., Chief, Pediatric Surgery, UCLA
11:15 Commentary, Discussion and Audience Questions
11:30 Lunch (box lunch included in registration)
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12:00+ pm Guided Tours
GUIDED TOURS OF THE NEW RONALD REAGAN UCLA MEDICAL CENTER
Tours will be conducted following lunch. Groups will depart from the Neuroscience
Research Building at regular (5 or 10 minute) intervals and proceed on foot less than
two blocks to the new Medical Center. Tours require approximately one hour of walking.
- Advance registration ($30; student registration is free) is required and includes all lectures,
coffee breaks, Friday and Saturday lunches, library reception, and the Medical Center tour. - Print, complete and return the Registration Form at: aohucla.wordpress.com
or call: 1-310-825-6940 or e-mail: tgj@library.ucla.edu
Acknowledgments
Program Chairs: Dora B. Weiner, Marcia L. Meldrum and Katharine E.S. Donahue.
The primary sponsor for this conference is the Department of Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, with special thanks to Professor Marie-Françoise Chesselet, Chair. Further special thanks to the Southern California Colloquium in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology and Professor Margaret Jacob.
Additional support is gratefully acknowledged from these units at UCLA: History and Special Collections, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library; David Geffen School of Medicine; School of Nursing; School of Public Health; Department of History; and Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences. Thanks also for assistance from Cherry Dunham Williams, Russell A. Johnson, and Teresa G. Johnson.
Program: Auditorium 132
Neuroscience Research Building
635 Charles Young Dr. South
UCLA
Website: http://aohucla.wordpress.com/
Contacts:
Teresa G. Johnson (tgj@library.ucla.edu)
310 825-6940
