Greenville, NC
W: 252-744-2797
savittT@ecu.edu
Travel Regions: Statewide
A graduate of Colgate University (A.B., History) and the University of Virginia (M.A., Ph.D., American History), Dr. Savitt also received post-doctoral training at Duke University in the History of Medicine and the History of Science. Currently he is a Professor of Medical Humanities at East Carolina University School of Medicine, where he teaches social and ethical issues in medicine and coordinates the ECU Medical School ReadersŐ Theater. Dr. Savitt has been active in the American Association for the History of Medicine since 1981 and presently holds the office of Secretary-Treasurer. A member of the North Carolina Humanities Council from 1986-1991, he now serves as a grants panelist and reviewer for the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Institutes of Health.
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Medical Ethics Through Readers' Theater: Performance and Discussion*
Readers' Theater is an innovative way to bring stories alive to audiences and to engage them in the issues that the stories raise. Readers do not memorize lines or move around the stage; they read their parts aloud using voice and face to convey the story. Dr. Savitt will provide scripts adapted from provocative or moving short stories about medicine, and, in one rehearsal, prepare local readers for a story performance later that evening. Following the performance, he will lead a discussion about the story with the audience and cast. The entire program last about an hour or so. Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, Katherine Ann Porter, Pearl Buck, William Carlos Williams, and Richard Selzer deal with such issues as the physician/patient relationship, chronic illness, and organ transplants.
*Because of the rehearsal time, this lecture will count as two presentations.
Educating African-American Physicians in Raleigh, NC:
Leonard Medical School of Shaw University, 1882-1918
Leonard Medical School in Raleigh was one of fourteen medical schools founded in the United States between 1868 and 1900 dedicated to the education of African-Americans. Over its 36 year history Leonard graduated almost 400 physicians. Founded with great promise in 1882, Leonard, like its sister black medical schools, struggled to survive financially as it tried to keep up with changes in medical education and medical science during the late nineteenth century. Race issues added an extra burden. Only two African-American medical schools, Meharry and Howard, survived after 1923. This slide talk will discuss Leonard's founding, the life of its students, the school's successes and stresses, and its unhappy closing in 1918.
Entering a White Profession: Black Physicians in the Turn-of-the- Century South
Following the Civil War, opportunities for former slaves to enter law, medicine, teaching, and other professions increased greatly. Several medical schools graduated a number of African-American physicians in the late nineteenth century. These newly minted physicians then faced the problem of opening viable medical practices among people, white and black, who had never before seen black physicians. This illustrated talk describes the reactions of black patients, white patients, and white physicians to the emergence of black physicians in their communities.
Requirements for Program: "Educating African-American Physicians" and "Entering a White Profession"--slide projector and screen
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