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Humanities Iowa speaker Richard Caplan to present Sherlock Holmes program at Kendall Young Library

Richard Caplan

A program about Sherlock Holmes, the great detective made famous in stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, will be presented at Kendall Young Library on Thursday, March 22 at 6:30 p.m. in the Library Meeting Room

Richard Caplan will present “Sherlock Holmes in Turn-of-theCentury Britain.”

Caplan is Professor Emeritus of Dermatology at the University of Iowa College of Medicine. While serving for 21 years as Associate Dean for Continuing Medical Education, he founded and developed the Program in Biomedical Ethics and Medical Humanities, where an endowed chair has been established in his honor. Medical ethics, medical history and literature-and-medicine are among his areas of interest, along with matters musical (he is an accomplished performer of piano and clarinet).

He is also a recognized expert on Sherlock Holmes and he is the founding leader of the Younger Stamfords, Iowa City’s Sherlock Holmes Society.

The stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle have inspired generations of readers devoted to Sherlock Holmes. Caplan recently published a book concerning Doyle’s famous detective. This special interest in the subject also allows exploration of life in Britain at the start of the twentieth century. Using his background in medicine and his love of literature, Caplan explores the persisting phenomenon of the great detective’s astounding longevity.

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