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An image of a wounded Civil War officer. |
Susan Lawrence, Ph.D., an associate professor and historian of medicine at The Ohio State University, will present this year’s Charles S. and Linda W. Wilson Lecture in Medical Humanities.
Dr. Lawrence’s presentation this Thursday, April 17, is titled: “Civil War Suffering: Making Sense of the Civil War.” She is the co-director of the Civil War Washington project at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is the editor of “Civil War Washington: History, Place and Digital Scholarship,” due out in 2014 or 2015 from the University of Nebraska Press, and she is completing another book, “Privacy and the Past: History and Research Ethics.” Her long-term research focuses on the history of human dissection in Anglo-American medical education from the eighteenth century to the present.
- When: Noon, Thursday, April 17
- Where: Wittson Hall Amphitheater (Room 3034)
- What: The Wilson Lecture is named for Charles Wilson, M.D., a former UNMC clinical professor and a former University of Nebraska Regent. Dr. Wilson has long encouraged health care professionals to learn humanities — his own story serving as an example. Dr. Wilson dropped his pre-med major to study art, literature, music and other humanities — much to the chagrin of his undergraduate counselor who said, “Mark my words, young man, you will never get into medical school.” Dr. Wilson received his M.D. from Northwestern University in 1964.
The lecture is supported by the University of Nebraska Foundation. A box lunch will be provided for the first 50 attendees.