Nancy Bristow, Ph.D., professor at the University of the Puget Sound, Tacoma, Wash., will give the 10th annual Richard B. Davis, M.D., Ph.D. History of Medicine Lecture at noon on April 10 in the Harold M. and Beverly Maurer Center for Public Health, Room 3013.
Dr. Bristow will speak on the topic, “We Have Done Just as Well as Could Be Done: Health Care Practitioners and the Influenza Pandemic of 1918.”
Dr. Bristow teaches 20th century American history, with an emphasis on race, gender and social change. Initially a student of progressivism and the First World War, she continues to pursue her interest in social cataclysm in her current research on the social and cultural history of the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919.
A box lunch will be available at 11:30 a.m for the first 75 attendees.
The event can be watched online here.
The Richard B. Davis, M.D., Ph.D., History of Medicine Lectureship brings national experts to the UNMC campus to discuss the history of medicine, in support of special collections at the McGoogan Library, including rare books and works on the history of medicine.
The lectureship is supported through an endowed fund given by the late Richard B. Davis, M.D., Ph.D. (1926-2010), professor emeritus of internal medicine at UNMC, and his wife, Jean. Davis supported this lectureship out of his long-standing interest in the history of medicine; he was a faculty member at UNMC from 1969-1994.