Department of Medical Humanities
Emmet F. Pearson Memorial Medical History Lectures
| Date | Title of the Lecture | Author of the Lecture |
| 9/20/2012 | The Yellow Wallpaper: A Short Story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
Performed by: Aasne Vigesaa and Directed by: Kevin Purcell |
| 8/11/2011 | Mark Twain, Medicine and Science | Warren R. Brown |
| 8/19/2010 | Committed to Reform: Mrs. Packard’s Assault on the Asylum | Linda Carlisle, MSLS, PhD, SIU-E Author: Elizabeth Packard: A Nobel Fight |
| 6/10/2009 | The Madness of Mary Lincoln | Jason Emerson, Author: The Madness of Mary Lincoln (SIU Press, 2007) |
| 5/8/2008 | Evidence-Based Health Care Architecture: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives | Roger Ulrich, PhD, Texas A&M University, Beale Endowed Professor of Health Facilities Design, Professor of Architecture |
| 7/24/2007 | The Genius Factory | David Plotz, Author, The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank |
| 8/10/2006 | The Arms Were Not Lost in Vain: Union Soldiers and the Price of Freedom | Stephen A. Goldman, MD, FAPM, FAPA, President, North Jersey Civil War Round Table |
| 8/29/2005 | Lincoln's Little Blue Pills | Ian A. Greaves, BMedSci, MB, BS, Associate Professor, Div. of Environmental Health Sciences |
| 8/23/2004 | Michelangelo and the Brain: Decoding the Creation of Adam | Frank Lynn Meshberger, MD |
| 7/30/2003 | The Pride of the Prairie: The Illinois State Hospital for the Insne-A Photographic Essay | Joseph J. Mehr, PhD, Author, An Illustrated History of Illinois Public Mental Health Services |
| 8/27/2002 | P.T. Barnum was Right: Medical Devices and Public Gullibility | Robert McCoy, Founder & Curator, The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices |
| 8/21/2001 | Culture and Community in the American Small Town | John E. Hallwas, PhD, Professor of English, Western Illninois University |
| 8/30/2000 | Music and Healing: From David's Harp to Music Therapy 2000 | James Harris, MA, RMT, Director of Music, Springfield College in Illinois |
| 7/21/1999 | From Graverobbing to Medical Politics: The Eclectic Schools in American Medicinie, 1829-1942 | John S. Haller, Jr., PhD, Professor of History, SIU-Carbondale |
| 8/12/1998 | Controlling Heredity: A History of Eugencis in the United States | Philip Wilson, PhD, Biology & History of Science, Truman State University |
| 7/24/1997 | Images of Plague Through the Centuries | Linda Garcia-shelton, PhD, Professor of Clinical Psychology, Dept. of Family Medicine, UI-Chicago |
| 8/13/1996 | Drastic Cures of the Late 1880s: Colonic Irrigation and Other Doubtful Therapies | Micaela Sullivan-Fowler, MS, MA, Research Specialist in the History of Medicine, UI-Chicago, College of Medicine |