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    A Famine of Cadavers: Indianapolis Graverobbing in 1902
    (2023-09-22) Flook, Chris
    Presentation slides for lecture delivered by Chris Flook (Public Historian; Senior Lecturer of Media, Ball State University) on September 22, 2023. In fall of 1902, Indianapolis police detectives uncovered a massive graverobbing ring. That summer, ghoulish body snatchers had plundered Marion County cemeteries for fresh corpses and sold them to medical colleges as cadavers. This presentation, based on Flook’s book, "Indianapolis Graverobbing: A Syndicate of Death," explores this history, the state’s anatomy laws at the time, and the trials of those involved. Presentation recording available online: https://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/media/237h73x38q
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    Adaptability in Medical Education: 2nd Annual Indiana University School of Medicine Education Day Program
    (IUSM, 2021-04-22) Kochhar, Komal
    Program for the 5th annual Indiana University School of Medicine Education Day held virtually on April 22, 2021. An inherent challenge of operating a large multi-campus educational system is being able to provide professional development opportunities for all our medical educators across the state. To address this need, we implemented an annual “Education Day” at Indiana University School of Medicine to promote educational scholarship across our nine-campus system. Held each spring, Education Day showcased the educational scholarship of our faculty, staff, and learners, and provided a forum to share best educational practices and forge new collaborations in educational research.
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    An Origin Story for “Big Pharma” in the Reign of Louis XIV? An Early Modern History for the Present
    (Ruth Lilly Medical Library, 2024-04-05) Rivest, Justin
    Presentation slides for lecture delivered by Justin Rivest, PhD (Assistant Professor of History, Kenyon College) on April 5, 2024. This talk poses a fertile, if playfully anachronistic, historical question: In the final two decades of his seventy-two-year reign, did Louis XIV (r. 1643-1715) subsidize the world’s first “Big Pharma” companies into existence? From the 1680s onward the Sun King granted monopoly rights and government supply contracts, first to the court physician Jean-Baptiste Chomel, and then to the Dutch-born medical entrepreneur Adriaan Engelhard Helvetius (naturalized French as Adrien Helvétius). Both men developed proto-industrial operations that annually shipped tens of thousands of standardized medicine chests all over France and beyond. Building on relationships forged in supplying medicines to the French army, Rivest argues that they took advantage of supply problems in existing Catholic poor relief networks to provide their standardized medicines to the largest possible purchaser—the French absolutist state—and the largest possible consumer base—the peasants of rural France. Although grounded in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this talk raises questions about the connections between charity and capitalism; the role of private entrepreneurs in fulfilling the state objectives; and about how the state shapes markets as a consumer, rather than just as a regulator, that continue to have resonance in the twenty-first century. Presentation recording available online: https://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/media/q47r66rn7r
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    Beneath the Scalpel: Exploring the Dark Chapters in the History of Body Procurement
    (2023-10-03) Brokaw, James J.
    Presentation slides for lecture delivered by James J. Brokaw, PhD, MPH (Professor Emeritus of Anatomy & Cell Biology, IU School of Medicine) on October 3, 2023. Uncovering the controversial and often grim history of acquiring bodies for anatomical study, from the shadowy days of grave robbing and body snatching to the emergence of ethical standards and regulations, this presentation shines a light on the evolution of practices that have shaped the field of dissection, prompting reflection on the delicate balance between scientific progress and ethical considerations. Presentation recording available online: https://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/media/692t156n7d
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    Beshert: Destined to Happen
    (2024) Feigenbaum, Harvey
    An autobiography filled with unexpected events which led to the development of echocardiography, medicine’s leading way to visualize the heart. Based on a 2012 interview with the author, Harvey Feigenbaum, MD; revised by the author in 2024.
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    Building Bridges in Medical Education: 3rd Annual Indiana University School of Medicine Education Day Program
    (2022-04-28) Indiana University School of Medicine
    Program for the 3rd annual Indiana University School of Medicine Education Day held at Hine Hall Conference Center on the IUPUI campus on April 28, 2022. The IUSM Education Day is an event for faculty, staff, students, residents, and fellows from all departments and campuses to showcase their medical education research through oral presentations, workshops, poster sessions, and small group discussions.
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    Celebrating Dr. Amelia R. Keller: Pioneering Physician, Educator, Suffragist, and Public Health Advocate
    (2022-04-19) Pieczko, Brandon T.
    Exhibit developed by the Ruth Lilly Medical Library for the dedication of an Indiana State Historical Marker honoring Dr. Amelia R. Keller on April 19, 2022.
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    Celebrating the Legacy of the Institute of Psychiatric Research (IPR), and Moving Brain Research Forward
    (2022-06-22) Lahiri, Debomoy K.; Nurnberger, John I.
    The Institute for Psychiatric Research (IPR) at Indiana University (IU) School of Medicine was a free-standing four-story building on the main IUPUI campus (791 Union Drive) just east of Eskenazi Hospital's present location. It was built in 1955-56 by the State of Indiana to house the laboratories of neuroscience investigators operating under the leadership of the IU Department of Psychiatry. For nearly six decades IPR was the home of innovative research (primarily NIH-funded) in neurochemistry, electrophysiology, genetics, neuroanatomy, animal behavior, and molecular biology. For many years it was also the home of neuroscience education on the IUPUI campus. In 2014 the IPR building was demolished as part of the construction of Eskenazi hospital to replace the venerable Wishard hospital campus. IPR faculty relocated to the IU Neuroscience Building at 320 West 15th Street, where they now continue their work along with researchers at Stark Neurosciences Research Institute and other departments. Former IPR faculty Debomoy Lahiri and John Nurnberger have assembled a history of IPR along with illustrations of the building and the faculty and staff who worked there and contributed significantly to psychiatric research.
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    Cochlear Implants - Past, Present, & Future
    (2015-10-29) Miyamoto, Richard T.