C-SPAN’s BookTV is scheduled to be on Central Campus from 5:30-7 p.m. Oct. 12 in the U-M Library Gallery, to film a presentation by Howard Markel, U-M professor, noted medical historian and author.
Markel, professor and director of the Center for the History of Medicine, will talk with Daniel Herwitz, director of the Institute for the Humanities. Markel’s latest book is “An Anatomy of Addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted and the Miracle Drug Cocaine.” The book is an account of the years of cocaine use by Freud, then a young ambitious neurologist, and William Halsted, the equally young pathfinding surgeon. Despite, or because of the toll the drug took on the men, one became the father of psychoanalysis and the other of modern surgery.
The event is part of the Author’s Forum series, which features authors in conversation with scholars and professionals in related fields. The series is a collaboration among the U-M Library, the Institute for the Humanities, the Great Lakes Literary Arts Center and the Ann Arbor Book Festival. Author’s Forum events are presented in the Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery.
Karen Jordan, U-M Library’s director of programming and community engagement, says, “Author’s Forum is one of the highlights of our programming. The conversations are wide-ranging and very lively, and this a great opportunity to share what we’re doing with a wider audience.”
Markel holds multiple university appointments, ranging from the School of Medicine to the Department of History.
