Invited Lectures and Participation in Symposia

"Possible Aristotelian Influences upon Salernitan Anatomy,' Macy Seminar on the History of Medicine and the Biological Sciences, Princeton, New Jersey, September 22-24, 1968. (Invited Paper)

"The Experiment is Underway," 49th Annual Conference, Junior Leagues of America, Colorado Springs, Colorado, May 3, 1971. (Invited Paper)

"Improving the Status of Women Historians," 88th Annual Meeting, American Historical Association, San Francisco, California, December 27-30, 1973. (Participation in Colloquium)

'Giovanni Michele Savonarola - An Atypical Renaissance Practitioner,' Seventh Annual Renaissance Symposium sponsored by the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, May 1-4, 1974. (Invited Paper)

"Budapest MS. 26: A Hitherto Unknown Copy of the Dragmaticon," 24th International Congress of the History of Medicine, Budapest, Hungary, August 26-31, 1974. (Participation in Colloquium on Medieval Medicine)

'Some New Thoughts on the Funfbilderserie,' 88th Annual Meeting, The American Association of Anatomists, History of Anatomy Session, Los Angeles, California, March 26, 1975. (Invited Paper)

Thema: 'Studien zur Geschichte der Anatomie,' Institut fur Geschichte der Medizin der Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg, West Germany, December 2-4, 1975. (Vortrag und Seminar)

'The Funfbilderserie -- A Bridge to the Unknown,' 51st Annual Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine, Galveston, Texas, May 13, 1976. (Invited Paper)

Westridge School, Pasadena, California, June 11, 1976. (Commencement Address)

"An Anatomical Mystery with Global Dimensions," 25th International Congress of the History of Medicine, Quebec Canada, August 21-28, 1976. (Invited Paper) "Early Illustrated Anatomical Manuals," University of California, Riverside, Department of Biology, October 14, 1977 (Invited Paper)

"The Anatomical Idea: Andreas Vesalius," University of Southern California, Department of History, Los Angeles October 27, 1977. (Invited Paper)

"The Nine-Picture Series: The Early Transmission of Anatomical Data," Bay Area Medical History Club, University of California, San Francisco, January 11, 1978. (Invited Paper)

"Anatomy -- The Western Oddity," UCLA Dental Research Institute Seminar Series, January 31, 1978. (Invited Paper)

"From Five to Nine, The Resolution of a Contradiction," 91st Annual Meeting, American Association of Anatomy, The History of Anatomy Session, Vancouver, B. C., April 3, 1978. (invited Paper)

"'Ossa Mandibule Inferioris Due' -- A Recapitulation," 26th International Congress of the History of Medicine, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, August 20-25, 1978. (Invited Paper)

"Early Anatomical Iconography," Annual Barlow Lecture, Los Angeles County Medical Association, November 15, 1978 (Invited Lecture)

"Trends in Medical Education -- An Historical Perspective," Medical Library Group of Southern California and Arizona, Valley Presbyterian Hospital, Van Nuys, December 20, 1978. (Invited Lecture)

"The Earliest Illustrated Anatomical Manual Known in the Latin West," West Coast History of Science Society, Annual Meeting, Berkeley, December 27, 1978. (Invited Lecture)

"Fracastoro and the Pomegranate, " Cum Laude Lecture, Marlborough School, March 15, 1979. (Invited Lecture)

"The Evolution of Anatomy," University of Southern California, Department of History, Los Angeles, October, 1979, (Invited Lecture)

'Speech and Its Disorders" Stanford Club of Los Angeles, October 29, 1979. (Invited Lecture)

"Jose Maria Benetis' Informe-- Alta California's First Spanish Medical Account 6, " 27th International Congress of the History of Medicine, Barcelona, Spain, August 31 - September 6, 1980. (Invited Lecture)

"Anatomy in Asian Medicine," European Centre of the History of Medicine Conference, Strasbourg, France, September 8- 10, 1980. (Participation Colloquium)

"Andreas Vesalius and the Rise of Modern Anatomy," Sigma Xi Lecture, California State University-Dominguez Hills, May 19, 1981. (Invited Lecture)

"A History of the Labyrinth," American Psychological Association, 89th Annual Convention, Los Angeles, August 26, 1981. (Invited Lecture)

"Medicine in the Renaissance,' Departments of Biology and Medical Technology, California State University-Dominguez Hills, October 20, 1981. (Invited Lecture)

"A History of the Labyrinth," University of California, Berkeley, Department of Psychology, November 12, 1981

"The Anatomy of Survival," Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, December 9, 1981. (Invited Lecture)

"Emphasis on the New: Some Results," Friday Reading Club, Los Angeles, May 7, 1982. (Invited Lecture)

"The History of Anatomical Illustration," The Association of Medical Illustrators, Annual Meeting, October 12, 1982. (Invited Lecture)

"Tell Me Where is Fancy Bred?' Division of Science Literature, Modern Language Association of America, Los Angeles, December 27, 1982. (Invited Lecture)

"Anatomical Illustration -- The Beginnings," Department of Anatomy Seminar Series, University of California, Los Angeles, March 16, 1983. (Invited Lecture)

"Chaucer, Medicine and the New Surgery" New Chaucer Society, York, England, August 7, 1984. (Invited Lecture)

"Mansions and Manners," First Century Families, Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, November 8, 1984. (Invited Lecture)

"Bologna, Surgeons and Medieval Anatomical Science," Medieval Academy of the Pacific, Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, February 23, 1985. (Invited Lecture)

"Medieval Hagiography: Cosmas and Damian -- A Pilot Project," New Chaucer Society, Fifth International Congress, Philadelphia, March 23, 1986. (Invited Lecture)

"An Unfinished Scientific Revolution," The Seventh Annual Morris H. Saffron Lecture, Medical History Society of New Jersey, Lawrenceville, New Jersey, May 7, 1986. (invited Lecture)

" William of Saliceto: Surgical Reformer," Institute of the History of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, October 9, 1986. (Invited Lecture)

"Europe's earliest original anatomical drawings," D.C., May 11, 1987. (Invited Lecture)

" Centennial Meeting, American Association of Anatomists, Washington, D.C. May 11, 1987. (Invited Lecture)

"Hog Beans, Poppies and Mandrake Leaves -- A Test of the Efficacy of the Medieval 'Soporific Sponge'" Second International Symposium on the History of Anaesthesia, London, England, July 22, 1987. (Invited Lecture)

"Anatomical Illustrations and an Unfinished Revolution," Fifty-Sixth Annual Meeting, The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, September 11, 1987. (Invited Lecture)

'Surgery at the Cutting Edge, " Friends of the Norris Medical Library, University of Southern California, October 14, 1987. (Invited Lecture)

"The Earliest Anatornical Illustrations - West and East," China Institute for the History of Medicine and Medical Literature, Beijing, China, May 24, 1988. (Invited Lecture)

Symposium on Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China, May 25 1988. (Respondent and Recorder)

"Dissection, East and West," Guangzhou Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China, June 3, 1988 (Invited Lecture)

"Speculum mundi: Cataloging and using Medieval Images," Medieval Academy of the Pacific Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, March 31, 1989. (Panel Chair)

"Brain Function, Brain Trauma and its Surgical Treatment in the Middle Ages: Twelfth Century Insight," American Association for the History of Medicine, 62nd Annual Meeting, Birmingham, Alabama, April 29, 1989. (Invited Lecture)

"Diagrams of the Medieval Brain: A Study in Cerebral Localization, Iconography at the Crossroads," a Symposium sponsored by the Index of Christian Art, Princeton University, March 24, 1990. (Invited Lecture)

"Incidents Seeking a Narrative: Earlier Medieval Anatomical Accounts, East and West,' Medieval Academy of America, Annual Meeting, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, April 5, 1990. (Invited Lecture)

"The Use of Computer Databases to Access Medieval Pictures and Diagrams: A Survey of New and Continuing Projects," Twenty-fifth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 11, 1990. (Panel Chair)

"The Index of Medieval Medical Images in North America - Problems and Methodology," Thirtieth International Congress for the History of Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, September 3, 1990. (Panel Chair)

"Surgical Innovations in Thirteenth-Century Surgery -- The Bologna School and Its Later Developments," presented to the UCLA Department of Surgery, Grand Rounds, March 13, 1991. (Invited Lecture)

"The New Surgery," Bay Area Medical History Society, San Francisco, California, April 9, 1991. (Invited Lecture)

"Consequences of the Encounter, Part 2: Ecology and Demography," The Columbus Paradox, Los Angeles, January 25, 1992. (Panel Chair)

"Thirteenth-Century Surgery -- Almost a Scientific Revolution," presented to the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Neurosurgeons, Section on the History of Neurosurgery, San Francisco, April 14, 1992. (Invited Lec- ture)

"Vesalius at Bologna," Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology. The Ohio State University, May 11, 1993.(Invited Lecture nd Video Presentation)

"Making the 'The Young Vesalius," Wellcome Institute, London, July 1, 1993. (Invited Lecture and Video Presentation)

"Where are we Now?" Stanford University, October 1, 1993. (Invited Lecture)

"Mondino's Book and the Human Body," Medieval Association of the Pacific, Seattle Washington, March 3, 1994. (Invited Lecture)

'The Film in Medical History -- Challenges, Opportunities, and Pitfalls,' American Association for the History of Medicine, Annual Meeting, New York City, May 2, 1994. (Invited Lecture)

"Cataloguing Pre-modern Medical Images: A Progress Report," International Medieval Congress, Leeds, July 5, 1994. (Invited Lecture)

"Vesalius on Video," University of Southern California, February 8, 1995. (Invited Lecture)

"Texts, Techniques and Diseases: The Exchange with Outremer, " International Medieval Congress, Leeds, July 13, 1995. (Invited Lecture)

"Childbirth Practices in Early Modern Europe: An Illustrated Overview," Symposium sponsored by the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, February 9, 1996. (Invited Lecture)

"A Lexical Puzzle in an early Medieval Anatomical Manual," International Medieval Congress, Leeds, England, July 11, 1996. (Invited Lecture)

"Anatomies and the History of Medicine" UCLA Library Series, Los Angeles, February 4, 1997. (Invited Lecture)

"Healing the Wounded Warrier," Medical Center Hour, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, April 15, 1998. (Invited Lecture)

"Vesalius as Media Revolutionary," The Second Annual Kenneth Chrispell Memorial History Lecture, The Claude M.oore Health Science Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, April 16, 1998. (Invited Lecture).

"Pre-modern Ventricular Localization: A New View," International Society for the History of the Neurosciences, Third Annual Meeting, Annapolis, Maryland, June 7, 1998. (Invited Lecture)

"Presidential Address" Thirty-Sixth International Congress of the History of Medicine, Tunis-Carthage, September 6, 1998.(Invited Lecture)

"Videos Computers, and Medical History" Thirty-Sixth International Congress of the History of Medicine, Tunis-Carthage, September 10, 1998.(Invited Lecture)

"On the Future of our Society" Presidential Address presented to the Council of the International Society for the History of Medicine, Paris, June 26, 1999.(Invited Lecture)

" The Death of King Henri II of France "Haldane Philip Tait Lecture, Scottish Society of the History of Medicine.... May 24, 2000. (Invited Lecture)

" Kings, Knights and their Surgeons," The Spriggs Annual Lecture, The Pybus Society, Newcastle-on-Tyne, May 25, 2000(Invited Lecture)

"Presidential Address" 37th International Congress of the History of Medicine, Galveston, Texas, September 14, 2000.(Invited Lecture)

“A Historical Clinical Case, “ International Society for the History of the Neurosciences, Fifth Annual Meeting, Cologne, Germany, June 16, 2001 (Invited Lecture)

“American Surgery, The Era of Great Expectations,“ 39th World Congress of Surgery, Centennial Congress, Brussels Belgium, August 26, 2001 (Invited Lecture)

“Vesalian Inspiration,” Regents of the National Library of Medicine Meeting, Bethesda, Maryland, May 14, 2002 (Invited Lecture)

“The Vesalian Revolution” Anatomical Visions: Past, Present, and Future. Opening Day Lecture for “Dream Anatomy” Exhibition at the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, October 9, 2002 (Invited Lecture)

“The Melancholy of Anatomy” Thomas Syndenham Annual Lecture, Society of Apothecaries, London, England, October 22, 2002.