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Robert Frank Jr.


Professor Emeritus


Contact Information

Email    RFRANKJ@UCLA.EDU
Office  5268 Bunche Hall
Phone  310-825-3737

Selected Publications

Harvey and the Oxford Physiologists: A Study of Scientific Ideas and Social Interaction. Berkeley/Los Angeles: U.C. Press, 1981

"The Image of Harvey in Commonwealth and Restoration England," in Jerome J. Bylebyl, ed., William Harvey and His Age (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U.P, 1979), 103-143

"The Physician as Virtuoso in Seventeenth-Century England," in Barbara Shapiro and Robert G. Frank, Jr., English Scientific Virtuosi in the 16th & 17th Centuries (Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Library, 1979), 57-114 (With L.H. Marshall and H.W. Magoun)

"The Neurosciences," in Advances in American Medicine: Essays at the Bicentennial (New York: Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, 1976), I, 552-613

"Science, Medicine, and the Universities of Early Modern England: Background and Sources," History of Science, 
(1973), II: 194-216, 239-269

Research

History of the Biological Sciences and History of Medicine

Previous Courses by Term

2019 Winter Quarter

History of Modern Medicine

2018 Winter Quarter

History of Modern Medicine

2017 Winter Quarter

Themes in History of Medicine

2016 Spring Quarter

Themes in History of Medicine

2015 Spring Quarter

Themes in History of Medicine

2014 Spring Quarter

Themes in History of Medicine

2013 Fall Quarter

Capstone Seminar: History -- Science/Technology

2012 Spring Quarter

Capstone Seminar: History -- Science/Technology

2011 Fall Quarter

Themes in History of Medicine

2011 Spring Quarter

Themes in History of Medicine

2010 Fall Quarter

Capstone Seminar: History -- Europe

2010 Spring Quarter

Themes in History of Medicine

2009 Fall Quarter

Capstone Seminar: History -- Science/Technology

2008 Winter Quarter

Themes in History of Medicine

2007 Winter Quarter

Themes in History of Medicine

2006 Winter Quarter

Themes in History of Medicine

2005 Winter Quarter

Themes in History of Medicine

2004 Winter Quarter

Disease and Human Condition

2003 Spring Quarter

Disease and the Human Condition

2002 Fall Quarter

Themes in History of Medicine

2002 Spring Quarter

Themes in History of Medicine

2002 Winter Quarter

Disease and Human Condition

2001 Winter Quarter

Themes in History of Medicine

2000 Fall Quarter

Undergraduate Seminar

1999 Fall Quarter

Cultural and Intellectual History of Modern Europe: 17th Century

1999 Spring Quarter

Themes in History of Medicine

1999 Winter Quarter

Undergraduate Seminar

Previous Courses by Course

HIST 3D
History of Modern Medicine

2019 Winter Quarter

2018 Winter Quarter

HIST 3D
Themes in History of Medicine

2017 Winter Quarter

2016 Spring Quarter

2015 Spring Quarter

2014 Spring Quarter

2011 Fall Quarter

2011 Spring Quarter

2010 Spring Quarter

2008 Winter Quarter

2007 Winter Quarter

2006 Winter Quarter

2005 Winter Quarter

2002 Fall Quarter

2002 Spring Quarter

2001 Winter Quarter

1999 Spring Quarter

HIST 191I
Capstone Seminar: History -- Science/Technology

2013 Fall Quarter

2012 Spring Quarter

2009 Fall Quarter

HIST 191C
Capstone Seminar: History -- Europe

2010 Fall Quarter

HNRS 138
Disease and Human Condition

2004 Winter Quarter

2002 Winter Quarter

HNRS 138
Disease and the Human Condition

2003 Spring Quarter

HIST 197A
Undergraduate Seminar

2000 Fall Quarter

HIST 126C
Cultural and Intellectual History of Modern Europe: 17th Century

1999 Fall Quarter

HIST 197K
Undergraduate Seminar

1999 Winter Quarter