{"id":3260,"date":"2010-07-09T15:33:20","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T19:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/?p=3260"},"modified":"2010-07-12T09:40:05","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T13:40:05","slug":"cecil-striker-society-for-the-history-of-medicine-meets-%e2%80%93-first-time-in-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2010\/07\/cecil-striker-society-for-the-history-of-medicine-meets-%e2%80%93-first-time-in-30-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Cecil Striker Society for the History of Medicine Meets for First Time in 30 years"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Cecil<\/a>

Medical College, University of Cincinnati<\/p><\/div>\n

Before the May 26, 2010 meeting of the \u201cnew\u201d Cecil Striker Society for the History of Medicine, the Society had last met in 1980, shortly after Dr. Striker\u2019s death.\u00a0 Recently, as the latest phase of the Winkler Center\u2019s <\/a>own history began to blossom, the idea of resurrecting the Society made eminent sense.\u00a0 Cincinnati\u2019s medical history is the envy of most cities, large and small, but with the passing of a generation of physicians and historians who knew and understood their community\u2019s prominent role in medical history, appreciation of this illustrious history began to pass with them.<\/p>\n

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On May 26, that changed.\u00a0 While meetings of the original Society attracted 10 or 15 medical history enthusiasts,\u00a060 people attended the most recent meeting to hear Dan Hurley talk about Healing Cincinnati: A Winding Path Towards \u201cPursuing Perfection\u201d<\/em>, a survey of historical events that demonstrated the significant role that our local health care community has played in advancing the science and art of medicine for nearly 200 years. \u00a0Mr. Hurley is a highly regarded scholar of Cincinnati history, producer and host of Local 12 Newsmakers, and Director of Leadership Cincinnati.<\/p>\n

In his remarks, Mr. Hurley recounted the founding of Cincinnati\u2019s first college of medicine and teaching hospital in 1819, noting that over 20 other medical schools \u2013 some of more repute than others \u2013 came and went during the 19th<\/sup> century.\u00a0 While most of Cincinnati\u2019s hospitals were housed downtown near the river, by the latter part of that century, they had moved uptown to \u201cPill Hill,\u201d where the air and streets were cleaner.\u00a0 And, it wasn\u2019t until the scientific advances of the early 20th<\/sup> century that hospitals became places to heal people and cure illnesses rather than to simply ameliorate pain and provide comfort as patients as often as not slowly died.<\/p>\n

The significance of scientific advances may well be best demonstrated by one anecdote recounted by Mr. Hurley.\u00a0 Daniel Drake, founder of several medical colleges, including two in Cincinnati, believed that alcohol intemperance predisposed the body to \u201cspontaneously combust.\u201d\u00a0 By the mid 20th<\/sup> century, after the groundbreaking work of Abraham Flexner to anchor medical education in scientific principles, Cincinnati became an important center for biomedical research and advanced clinical care.\u00a0 The work of Albert Sabin, who, while at the University of Cincinnati and Children\u2019s Hospital Research Foundation from 1939 to 1969, developed the oral polio vaccine that eradicated polio from the United States and most of the world, is the most well known example of the world-class research conducted by Cincinnatians who had fully grasped the science of medicine.<\/p>\n

Mr. Hurley\u2019s final example of Cincinnati\u2019s pursuit of medical perfection is the nearly 15-year old program at Children\u2019s Hospital referred to as \u201cimprovement science.\u201d\u00a0 Children\u2019s has completely changed its culture and the attitudes of its employees to focus on evidence, patient safety, and transparent communication with the parents of its patients. \u00a0It serves as a model for hospitals worldwide.<\/p>\n

In addition to Mr. Hurley\u2019s presentation, the meeting featured a reminiscence of Cecil Striker by his son Dr. Theodore Striker; a speaker introduction and remembrance of Cecil Striker by Dr. E. Gordon Margolin, who was a friend and colleague of the elder Dr. Striker and whose lecture fund at Jewish Hospital sponsored the meeting; and a recognition ceremony for Winkler Center\u2019s 442 benefactors, with special mention of those who gave $1,000 or more in 2009 and 2010.<\/p>\n

Through October 2010 the Winkler Center\u2019s Stanley J. Lucas Board Room will feature an exhibit of artifacts and photographs illustrating Mr. Hurley\u2019s paper.\u00a0 The Center is open by appointment, Monday through Friday.\u00a0 The transcript of the paper is available on the Center\u2019s website at http:\/\/www.libraries.uc.edu\/hsl\/history\/Hurleyarticle.htm<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 For a recording of the Cecil Striker Society program on DVD contact the Winkler Center at (513) 558-5120 or chhp@uc.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Post by Steve Marine, Executive Director of the Henry R. Winkler Center for the History of the Health Professions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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