Virtual Lecture: "The Development of Anatomy and Pathology Collections in 19th Century Boston"

Dr. John Collins Warren (grandfather of Rosamond Warren Gibson), who pioneered the use of anesthesia in surgery and co-founded Mass General Hospital, founded the Warren Anatomical Museum in 1847 from his own personal collection of specimens. Indeed, Boston Brahmins played a major role both in the development of anatomical collections and the ways these collections influenced medical knowledge and practice. Join Harvard’s Dominic Hall to discuss these collections, their development, and their continued relevance.

Dominic Hall has been the Center for the History of Medicine’s Manager, Curation and Stewardship, Anatomy and Artifact Collections and the Curator of its Warren Anatomical Museum collection since 2007. Dominic has a BA in history from Colgate University and a MA in Museology from the University of Washington, Seattle. He earned an additional MA in Liberal Arts, History from the Harvard Extension School where he wrote a thesis entitled “The Catholic Brahmin and the Anatomy Act of 1898: Thomas Dwight and the Normalization of the Medical Cadaver Supply in Late Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts.” Dominic is a past president of the Medical Museum Association.

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