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Past Speakers in The Calgary History of Medicine Society
• Dr Sabrina Datoo
"The Value of Pathos: Medical Journalism and the Scientific Self in South Asia c1860-1930" (22.9.2025)
• Dr David Wright
"Chinese Medicine" (20.10.2025)
• Dr Jared Secord
"Magic and Medicine in Early Christianity and the Roman Empire" (17.11.2025)
• Dr John Jarrell
"Dr Earle P. Scarlett (1896-1982) Biography and Humanistic Writing" (26.1.2025)
• Emmanuel Delille (PhD)
"A Historical Case Study from Psychiatric Epidemiology" (23.2.2026)
• Student Speakers (13.4.2025)
• Dr Frank Stahnisch
"The Forced Migration of German-Speaking Neuroscientists in North America, 1933 to 1989" (20.1.2025)
• Dr Ian Davidson
"Psychological Testing’s Tolerated Critic? Exploring Anne Anastasi’s (1908-2001) Life and Views" (24.2.2025)
• Andreas-Holger Maehle (HMD keynote)
• Student Speakers (7.4.2025)
Marsden Ashe
"Open Your Mind: Psychedelics, Psychosurgery, and the Emergence of the Modern Conspiritual Wellness Movement"
Humna Maryam
"Magic and Medicine: How Cunning Folk Avoided Persecution During the Witch Trials of England and Scotland (16th-18th Century)"
Aurora Wengzynowski & Kesar Lacroix
"Wonders of the 21st Century: The Paradigm Shift from Discovery to Creation"
• Dr Yvonne Petry
"Diagnosing Demonic Possession: Medicine in the Era of the European Witch Hunts" (29.1.2024)
• Dr Stephen Pow
"Medical Empiricism in the Age of the Mongol Empire: Medieval Notions of Hygiene, Infection, and Contagion’s Invisible Actors" (26.2.2024)
• Gabriel Finkelstein (HMD keynote)
"Emil du Bois-Reymond as Educator: How a Neurophysiologist Sparked Innovations in Research, Teaching, History, and Philosophy" (15.3.2024)
• Dr Francine Michaud
"Medieval Medicine and Miracles" (23.9.2024)
• Dr Werner Becker
"Migraine through the ages: From mystery to science" (21.10.2024)
• Dr John Jarrell
"The History of Gynecological Treatment of Women’s Pelvic Pain and the Recent Emergence of Pain Sensitization" (25.11.2024)
• Dr. David Monteyne
"Canadian Quarantine Stations and Immigrant Detention Hospitals, 1830s-1930s" (16.1.2023)
• Dr. Dr. Fedir Razumenko
"How Social Tensions Emerge at the Intersection of Infectious and Chronic Disease: Canadian Cancer Patients’ Experience of COVID-19 pandemic" (13.2.2023)
• Dr. Christopher Green (HMD keynote)
"Using Digital Networks to Explore 19th-Century Psychiatry Journals” (17.3.2023)
• Cory Owen & Harold Miletich
"AMF/Hannah Student Lectures in the History of Medicine and Health Care” (17.4.2023)
• Dr. Travis Hay
"Colonial Contours of Indigenous Healthcare in Canada" (18.9.2023)
• Tim Stapleton
"The Medical History of Britain’s Colonial Army in West Africa (c.1860-1960)" (16.10.2023)
• Dr. Fedir Razumenko
• Dr. Alan Martino
"Is The Past Behind Us?: Examples of Newgenics Practices Experienced by Disabled People" (9.02.2022)
• Dr. Samuel K. Cohn (University of Glasgow, UK):
“‘Epidemics’ Socio-Psychological Side Effects from Plagues of the Fifth-Century BCE to Covid-19” (25.03.2022)
• Anzo Nguyen, Jessica Revington, Pauline McDonaugh-Hull
"AMF/Hannah Trainee Lectures in the History of Medicine" (25.04.2022)
• Dr. Erika Dyck (University of Saskatchewan)
"Psychedelic Psychiatry: Medical Experimentation, Psychoactivity and Drugs in Canada" (3.10.2022)
• Dr. Stephen Pow
• Mr. Pedro Falk, PhD Candidate
• Dr. Erna Kurbegovic, Dr. Frank W. Stahnisch & AUP Contributors
"Psychiatry and the Legacies of Eugenics -- Historical Studies of Alberta and Beyond" (18.01.2021)
• Dr. Courtney Thompson
"An Organ of Murder: Crime, Violence, and Phrenology in Nineteenth-Century America" (22.02.2021)
• Dr. Geoffrey L. Hudson
"Defining & Treating the Suffering Elderly: War & the Origins of Geriatric Medicine in late 18th & 19th-century Britain" (18.03.2021 HMDs Conference)
• Dr. Larry Zeidman
"Brain Science Under the Swastika: Ethical Violations, Resistance and Victimization of Neuroscientists in Nazi Europe" (19.03.2021 HMDs Conference)
• Anzo Nguyen, Jessica Revington, Pauline McDonagh Hull
"AMF/Hannah Student Lectures in the History of Medicine and Health Care" (19.04.2021)
• Dr. Elizabeth Neswald
"Urine sugar tests and self-testing in diabetes in the first half of the 20th century" (4.10.2021)
• Dr. Amy Whipple
"Patient Complaints in Britain’s National Health Service, 1948 – 1965: What Can They Tell Us About the General Practitioner Service?" (22.11.2021)
• Drs. Lampard, Hogan, Wright, & Stahnisch – Moderator: Dr. Lockyer
• Frank W. Stahnisch, PhD (University of Calgary):
"A New Field in Mind – A History of Interdisciplinarity in the Early Brain Sciences" (24.02.2020)
Proceedings of the Calgary History of Medicine Society
• Frank W. Stahnisch, Diana Mansell, Patricia Doyle-Baker, and David Monteyne:
"Bedside and Community – 50 Years of Contributions to the Health of Albertans by the University of Calgary" (25.02.2020)
• Nancy E. Hansen, PhD (University of Manitoba):
"The Eugenic Pandemic Disability 2020: Is History Repeating Itself?" (21.09.2020)
• Manal Sheikh & Max Lazar (University of Calgary):
"Ye Olde Quarantine: The Black Death to COVID19" (19.10.2020)
• Shelley McKellar, PhD (Western University):
"The Decision to Cut: Removing Hearts and Tonsils in the History of Surgery" (23.11.2020)
• Erna Kurbegovic University of Calgary
"The Great and Only Solution: Support and Opposition to Sexual Sterilization in Alberta and Manitoba" (28.01.2019)
• Dr. Stéphane Perreault Red Deer College
“Teaching the History of Health and Healing” (30.09.2019)
• Dr. Jamil Kassam University of Calgary
“The Relevance of Ibn-Sina’s Canon Medicinae on Modern Medicine” (21.10.2019)
• Krystal Marlier, M.A. University of Calgary
“Manic Depressive Insanity: a historical perspective” (18.11.2019)
• Dr. Fedir Razumenko University of Calgary
“Cancer Clinical Trials in Canada and the Ethics of Human Dignity Framework, 1971-2000” (09.12.2019)
• Dr. Robert Lampard MD, Msc(Surg), MBA, University of Calgary
"Consolidation and growth in the Cummings Faculty of Medicine, under the second Dean Dr. Lionel E. McLeod (1973-1981)" (22.01.2018)
• Dr. David Hogan University of Calgary
"The UofC Faculty of Medicine under Dean Smith" (22.02.2018)
• Dr. Thomas Söderqvist University of Kopenhagen, Denmark
"Triangulating autobiography, nostalgia and the history of contemporary medicine as a path to graceful ageing" (02.03.2018)
• Dr. Bob Brain UBC, Vancouver
"19th century relationships between neurophysiology and art" (05.03.2018)
• Dr. Mary-Ellen Kelm SFU, Burnaby, BC
"Paradigm Shift: Health researchers consider Culture Change and Health in Indigenous communities" (26.03.2018)
• Reyes Bertolin Cebrian, PhD University of Calgary
"Sport Injuries in Ancient Greece" (24.09.2018)
• Dr. Gordon Fick University of Calgary
"The Work and Life of Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher (1890 -1962) " (23.01.2017)
• Dr. Lesley Bolton University of Calgary
"The Ancient Gynaecology and Theory in Muscio’s Texts " (27.02.2017)
• Dr. Paul Weindling Oxford Brookes University , Oxford, United Kingdom
"German -speaking Émigré Physicians and Scientists in Britain during the Nazi Period" (18.03.2017)
• Eric Vlaminck Brussells, Belgium
"The psychiatric family foster care in the city of Geel, Belgium" (24.05.2017)
• Dr. Norman Schachar Department of Surgery, University of Calgary
"The Department: A Surgeons Memories, Before I Forget!" (25.09.2017)
Youtube link mentioned in presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5cANKRzWgs
• Dr. Jessica Tannenbaum University of Calgary
"An Analysis of the Dissection Protocols from the Flossenbuerg Concentration Camp, 1944-1945" (23.10.2017)
• Dr. Paula Michaels Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
"Wars Begin in the Minds of Men: Psychiatry and the Antinuclear Movement" (14.11.2017)
• Dr. Paula Michaels Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
"Natural Childbirth's Cold War History" (17.11.2017)
• Dr. Ian M. Clarke University of Calgary
"Norman Bethune – The Making of a Hero" (11.12.2017)
• Mr. Mikkel Dack, PhD Candidate University of Calgary (History)
"The De-Nazification Questionnaires of Doctors and Scientists after WWII" (25.01.2016)
• Dr. Jim Wright University of Calgary (Pathology)
"Glory Enough for All?: The Roles of Banting, Best, Collip, Macleod, Nobel, McCormick, and Canadian Fish in the Discovery of Insulin" (22.02.2016)
• Dr. Fernando Vidal University of Barcelona, Spain (History)
"Issues with Modern Personhood, the Disorders of Consciousness and the Locked-in Syndrome" (11.03.2016)
• Dr. Amber Porter University of Calgary
"Empathy, Compassion and Medical Ethics in the Greco -Roman World " (26.09.2016)
• Dr. Diana Mansell University of Calgary
"The History of Nursing Interview and Film Collection at the U of C" (24.10.2016)
• Dr. Bob Lampard Red Deer
"Dr. Bill Cochrane and the Establish- ment of the U of C Faculty of Medicine" (21.11.2016)
• Dr. Matthew Oram University of Calgary
"The Trials of Psychedelic Therapy: LSD Psychotherapy in the United States, 1949 -1976" (12.12.2016)
• Dr. Edward Shorter Hannah Professor, History of Medicine, University of Toronto
"Down in the dumps? It’s history rather than biology that has messed up" (9.02.2015)
• Dr. Peter TwohigCRC in Atlantic History, St. Mary’s University, Halifax, NS
"The Search for the Most Suitable ‘Worker’Renegotiating Health Care Work, 1950-1970" (6.03.2015)
• Dr. Frank Stahnisch, PhD AMF/Hannah Professorship in the History of Medicine, University of Calgary
"Sebastian K. Littmann (1931–1986): A Pioneering Advocate of Family and Community Psychiatry in North America" (13.03.2015)
• Dr. Aleksandra Loewenau, PhD Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary
"Sterilization/Castration Experiments on Jewish Inmates at Auschwitz-Birkenau" (21.09.2015)
• Dr. Aleksandra Loewenau
"Out of the Ashes (2003)" Lecture/Film Screening (26.10.2015)
• Dr. Frank Stahnisch, PhD
"German-American 'Holist Neurologist' Kurt Goldstein (1878-1965) -- Pioneer of Clinical Cerebral Localization and 'Father' of Modern Aphasiology and Neurorehabilitation" (9.11.2015)
• Dr. Jaqueline Claude Romney, PhD University of British Columbia
"Doctors in the Nazi Concentration Camps" (07.12.2015)
• Dr. Manuel Hulliger, PhD (Professor, Department of Clinical Neuroscience)
"The Edwin Smith papyrus and the first reported cases of aphasia after frontotemporal brain injury" (20.1.2014)
• Dr. Man-Chiu Poon (Professor, MD, FRCPC, University of Calgary) and Dr. Robert Card (MD, FRCPC, University of Saskatchewan)
"History of Haemophilia Care in Canada: Triumph and Tragedy" (24.2.2014)
• Dr. Thomas Schlich, James McGill (Professor in the History of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec)
"Examining the History of Medical Practices: Styles and Skills in Surgery, 1800-1920s" (7.3.2014)
• student presentations from the Calgary History of Medicine and Health Care Program
"Alberta Medical Foundation / Hannah Student Presentations" (7.4.2014)
• Dr. Ignacio Salvati
"The Ophthalmoscope - A History" (15.9.2014)
• Drs. Benneweis, Hannigan, Perry, Wright, and Stahnisch
"WWI History of War Medicine Panel" at "Perspectives Conference" in Lake Louise (25-28.10.2014)
• Dr. Anne Katzenberg, University of Calgary
"On the Relationship of Palaeopathology and the History of Medicine" (24.11.2014)
• Dr. Francine Michaud
"Recent Historiography and the Black Death in Medieval Europe" (15.12.2014)
• Dr. George Wyse, Al-Karim Walli, Barbara Kermode-Scott and Dr. Robert Lampard
"History of Cardiovascular Sciences in the City of Calgary and the Foothills Medical Centre" (21.1.2013)
• Rakefet Zalashik, PhD (The Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought, Ben-Gurion University, Israel & Mirowski Visiting Professor, College of Liberal Arts, Temple University, Philadelphia)
• Buddha Basnyat, PhD (world specialist on high altitude medicine from Nepal)
"High Altitude Medicine and the Sino-Indian Border Conflict of 1962" (25.2.2013)
• Professor Ian Steele-Russell (Texas A&M University, Bryan, TX, USA)
"The Prussian Primate Research Station in Tenerife: its complex origins and remarkable achievements" (11.3.2013)
• Scott Belyea, BScH, MSc (Queen’s University, Research Assistant in Anatomy)
"A Grave Issue: Body Snatching in Nineteenth Century Kingston, Ontario" (16.9.2013)
• Douglas Shantz, PhD (Professor, Chair of Christian Thought, Dept. of Religious Studies, University of Calgary)
• Lesley Bolton (PhD Candidate, Dept of Greek and Roman Studies, University of Calgary)
"Soranus of Ephesus and his Major Theoretical and Practical Writings" (18.11.2013)
• George Colpitts, PhD (Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Calgary)
"Alcohol, Binge Drinking and Addiction in the Hudson’s Bay Company Fur Trade in the late 18th Century" (2.12.2013)
• David Monteyne, PhD (Associate Professor of History and Theory of Architecture, Faculty of EVDS, University of Calgary)
"Architectural History and the Modern Hospital" (16.01.2012)
• Theodore M. Brown, PhD (Professor of History and Medical Humanities, Rochester University, New York, United States)
"Henry Sigerist's Advocacy of Social Medicine and Universal Health Insurance in North America, 1932-1947" (09.03.2012)
• Robert A. Wilson, PhD, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Professor of Philosophy, University of Alberta, Edmonton)
"Why Cognition Doesn't Stop at the Skull" (12.03.2012)
• Susan Lester, PhD (Associate Professor, Pathology; Harvard Medical School)
"John Collins Warren and the Warren Anatomical Museum: a 200 year history of its rise, fall, and rebirth" (17.9.2012)
• Cathy MacLean, PhD (Department of Family Medicine, University of Calgary); Anna Rebus (Research Historian, Dept of Family Medicine)
"Department of Family Medicine" (22.10.2012)
• Joaquin (Quim) Madrenas, PhD (Professor & Chairman, Dept of Microbiology & Immunology, McGill University)
"Infectious Music: how microbes have shaped our music" (29.11.2012)
• Rainer Herrn, PhD (Assistant Professor in the History of Medicine - Institute for the History of Medicine, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany)
"The Discipline of Sexology in Berlin during the Weimar Period, 1919-1933" (06.01.2011)
• Susan McMahon, PhD (Sessional Instructor in the History of Science, University of Calgary)
"'Pisse Prophets' to 'Physicians': Medical Practicioners in Mid-17th Century England" (28.02.2011)
• George Weisz, PhD (Cotton-Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine - Department of Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec)
"The Reinvention of Chronic Disease in the 20th Century" (11.03.2011)
• Margaret Lock, PhD (Marjorie Bronfman Professor in Social Studies in Medicine - Department of Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec)
"Facing Uncertainty: Who is Destined for Alzheimer's Disease?" (25.03.2011)
• Alby Richards, PhD, MD Candidate; Ankur Goel, MD Candidate (Undergraduate Medical Education, University of Calgary, Alberta)
"Students Dissect Medical History" (18.04.2011)
• Stephen Casper, PhD (Assistant Professor; History of Science, Humanities and Social Sciences Program, Clarkson University, Potsdam/New York)
"How Physicians Became Neurologists: The Case of Britain, 1800-2000" (15.06.2011)
• James Wright, Jr., MA, MD, PhD (Professor and Head, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Calgary)
"Surgical biopsy and the promotion of tumor metastases – an historical analysis of the concept, the controversy, and the animal studies which resolved the issue" (31.10.2011)
• Chris Archer, PhD (Em. Professor & Immediate Past Director of the Latin American Research Centre, University of Calgary)
"Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1858) and Vomito Negro in the Great Yellow Fever Centres in Mexico" (14.11.2011)
• Douglas Brown, PhD (Assoc. Prof. of Sport History & Associate Dean, Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Calgary)
"Excess in Moderation? Ancient Greek Medicine and its Ambivalence Towards High-Performance Sport" (12.12.2011)
• David Hogan, MD PhD (Full Professor of Geriatric Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine & Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary):
"Geriatrics in Canada - Long Gestation, Difficult Birth and Indifferent Health" (25.01.2010)
• Robert Lampard, MD (Former Director of the Foothills Medical Center; now Red Deer, Alberta):
"Alberta's Medical History: Young and Lusty and Full of Life" (22.02.2010)
• Geertje Boschma, MA, MSN, PhD (Associate Professor, UBC School of Nursing, University of British Columbia in Vancouver):
"From a family and community point of view: Rethinking institutional mental health care in Alberta, 1905-1975" (12.03.2010)
• Melanie Stapleton, MD, FRCP (Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Calgary)
"The Paradox of Plenty: conflict between agriculture and nutrition in modern medical history" (12.04.2010)
• Robert Gordon, MD (Retired Clinical Associate Professor, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas)
"The History of Neurology Viewed through the Eyes of a Book Collector" (21.09.2010)
• Lisa Petermann, PhD (Program Research Leader with the Health Promotion, Disease and Injury Prevention Portfolio of Alberta Health Services & Research Associate, History of Medicine and Helath Care, University of Calgary)
"From a Cough to a Coffin: The Child's Medical Experience in Britain and France, 1772-1884" (18.10.2010)
• Ian Mitchell, MD (Full Professor of Paediatrics, University of Calgary)
"Care for Abandoned Children in 18th Century Britain - Forerunners of Children's Hospitals?" (22.11.2010)
• Roberta Jackson, PhD (Instructor in the Department of English, University of Calgary)
"The Life and Times of W.H.R. Rivers, FRCP, FRS" (13.12.2010)
• Erika Dyck, PhD (Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in the History of Medicine; History Department, University of Saskatchewan):
"Henry Sigerist, Socialized Medicine and Disgruntled Western Canadians: Historical Reflections on Canada's Healthcare System" (2.2.2009)
• Garland E. Allan, PhD (Professor of the History of Biology; Department of Biology, Washington University in Saint Louis):
"Evolution, Genetics and Eugenics: The Misuse of Biological Theory, 1900-1945. Lessons from the Past" (6.3.2009)
• Michael Bliss, PhD (Professor Emeritus; Department of History, University of Toronto):
"From Osler to Insulin: (Canada and) the Coming of Modern Medicine" (27.4.2009)
• Stanley Finger, PhD (Professor Emeritus; Department of Psychology, Washington University in St. Louis):
"Electric Fish Therapeutics: A 'Shocking' History of 'Animal Electricity' in Modern Neuroscience" (18.9.2009)
• J.C. Herbert Emery, PhD (Svare Professor of Health Economics; Department of Economics and Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary):
"Un-American or Unnecessary? America's Rejection of Public Health Insurance in the Progressive Era" (26.10.2009)
• Jim Wright, MD PhD (Professor of Pathology; Head of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Calgary):
"Sir William Osler, Howard Kelly and the Roles in the Development of Techniques to Permit Covert Autopsies" (23.11.2009)
• Mark Humphries, PhD (Assistant Professor of History, Department of Humanities, Mount Royal College, Calgary):
"Negotiating Shell Shock: The Relation between Military Medicine and First World War Neuropsychiatric Injuries" (14.12.2009)