History and Special Collections for the Sciences
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Past Programs in Medical Classics

Powder and Lipstick Were on Just So: The Ideal Woman, Perceptions of Labor Pain, and the Use of Obstetric Anesthesia

October 16, 2007
UCLA Faculty Center

Jacqueline Wolf, Ph.D.
Professor of Social Medicine, Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine

Introduction by Mary Terrall, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History, UCLA

In the 1970s the lay press celebrated natural childbirth as invigorating and transforming. Today attitudes are starkly different: newspapers and magazines ridicule natural childbirth as “an extreme sport” and urge women to opt for an epidural. How do medical and social approaches to labor change so radically in one generation? In these talks, Professor Wolf will examine the history of medical and social views of labor pain and corresponding changes in the use of obstetric anesthesia and link those changes to broad contemporary social concerns and the cultural perception of women. 

 

The Architecture of Healing

November 16-17, 2007
Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium, UCLA
635 Charles E. Young Drive South


An International Conference at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA,
celebrating the opening of the new Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center

 

  • The Origins of the Hospital
    • Early Christian Hospitals: Caring and Curing
    • Bimaristan, the Islamic Hospital: Innovation and Tradition
  • The Commitment to Care v. The Commitment to Knowledge
    • Principles and Methods of Clinical Research
    • How Technology has Shaped Clinical Research at the Bedside
    • The Patient in Clinical Research: Revisiting the Barney Clark Case
  • Reception in the Rare Book Room, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library
  • From Hospice to Health Care
    • An Illustrated History of Hospital Architecture
    • Convergence of Art, Science and Technology: The Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
  • Guided Tours of the new Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center

 

Advance registration was required  
($30; includes lunches, opening reception at the Biomedical Library on Friday, and conducted tours of the new Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center on Saturday; Student advance registration is Free)