Featured Event

Holmes Annual Lecture will take place at 4:30PM on October 25, 2010 in the Historical Medical Library, Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT. 

Modern culture tends to separate medicine and miracles, but their stories  are closely intertwined. The Roman Catholic Church recognizes saints through canonization based on evidence that they worked miracles, as sign of their proximity to God.

Physician and historian Dr. Jacalyn Duffin has examined Vatican sources on 1400 miracles from six countries and spanning four centuries. She will recount intimate stories of illness, prayer, and treatment - a woman's breast tumor melts away, a man's wounds knit - exploring how medicine and religion derive meaningful signs from particular instances of human distress.