Dittrick Museum

The Dittrick Museum of Medical History will host the annual Percy Skuy Lecture Thursday, April 18, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the Allen Memorial Medical Library’s Zverina Room. Katherine Dugan Katherine Dugan, associate professor of religious studies at Springfield College in Western Massachusett...

During the late 19th century, entrepreneurs began to glut the direct-to-consumer medical market with a plethora of remedies they professed could miraculously cure deafness. They claimed their remedies and machines fostered a world of unbridled optimism for providing “hope” to deaf ears. Even as medi...

The College of Arts and Sciences, in collaboration with the Dittrick Museum of Medical History, invites all members of the campus community to the 2021 Zverina Lecture, titled “Made in Cleveland: The Kay-Cross Oxygenator and the history of heart-lung machines,” Saturday, Oct. 23, from 11 a.m. to noo...

The Dittrick Medical History Center will host the 2021 Percy Skuy Annual Lecture with a talk presented by Lauren Macivor Thompson titled “Doctors, Suffragists, Socialists, Eugenicists: Identities and Politics in the Early Birth Control Movement” Thursday, April 1, from 6 to 7 p.m. Lauren Macivor T...

In honor of Women’s History Month, we are highlighting women who made an impact on Case Western Reserve University and their respective fields. Nancy E. Talbot Clark Women make up 50.5 percent–a slim majority–of medical students in the United States today. But it took time for women to reach this ...

The Dittrick Medical History Center's 2019 Percy Skuy Lecture will feature a talk by Jessica Borge, a postdoctoral researcher at Université de Strasbourg who focuses on historic British contraception. The lecture, titled “London Rubber—Trials and Tribulations,” will be held Thursday, May 2, at 6 p.m...

Case Western Reserve University is one of the many institutions in University Circle that make our area a cultural hub. As we welcome new members to our community this month, we will highlight some of the local resources that make our neighborhood thrive. For students, some of the local attractions ...

Editor's note: This announcement corrects errors to the "Did You Know?" section of The Daily earlier this week. Through the Free Access Program, Case Western Reserve University students can visit many area attractions for free. Local institutions participating in the Free Access Program are: Cl...

The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities and Dittrick Medical History Center will host a talk by James C. McKeown, professor of classics at the University of Wisconsin – Madison and author of A Cabinet of Ancient Medical Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts From the Healing Arts of Greece...

Brandy Schillace Join the Graduate Council of Arts and Sciences to hear from the Dittrick Museum of Medical History’s Brandy Schillace at the council’s first professional development series event. Schillace, senior research associate and public engagement fellow at the museum, will present “Rogue ...