Applied Medical History

Panel on Recent Books on the History of Global Health
A discussion with four authors on their recent books on the history of global health/ global health studies. 
 
Panelists:
Yi-Tang Lin - Statistics and the Language of Global Health: Institutions and Experts in China, Taiwan, and the World, 1917-1960 (Cambridge University Press, 2022) 
Carolina Matos - Gender, Communications, and Reproductive Health in International Health and Development (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023)
Heidi Morefield - Developing to Scale: Technology and the Making of Global Health (Chicago University Press, 2023)
 
Moderator:
Kirsten Moore-Sheeley - Nothing But Nets: A Biography of Global Health Science and Its Objects (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023)

Vaccines and Society Unit - University of Oxford
This session will look at the work of the Vaccines and Society Unit, hosted at the Oxford Vaccine Group. The unit is a multidisciplinary research center that aims to improve understanding of the roles played by individuals and groups in their interaction with healthcare practice and medical research, particularly with regard to vaccination. The group draws on a variety of disciplines and engages with health scientists to produce research that bridges public health issues through policy advice, interventions, and public engagement.
 
Panelists: Samantha Vanderslott (Unit Lead, Vaccines and Society Unit)
 
Recommended viewing: "Typhoidland", https://typhoidland.org/ - Public Engagement with the History of Typhoid 

Eugenics and Its Afterlives: The Anti-Eugenics Collective at Yale University
 
We are absolutely delighted to host students in the Anti-Eugenics Collective at Yale (AECY) with Professor Daniel Martinez HoSang. As more colleges and universities have begun to formally confront and acknowledge the ways that eugenic science and other racial and colonial projects have shaped their formation, new models of collaborative teaching, learning and research have emerged that center the insights and questions of students. This talk will draw on student-centered examples of research and pedagogy in the AECY. In these projects, students have drawn on institutional archives to produce public facing projects that trace the university’s role in deepening social inequalities within surrounding communities. Audiences for these efforts have included students in public high schools in New Haven, medical students, and psychiatry and pediatrics residents at Yale. 
 
Confirmed Presenters:
Daniel Martinez HoSang, Yale University
 

How to Make a Humanities Lab
 
What is a humanities laboratory? Why are they useful? And what goes into starting and running one? For this session, Professor Natalie Lira is returning to our working group to discuss logistics, strategies, and practical concerns that come with running a historically oriented laboratory in a university. Specifically, she will share valuable insights from her time as Co-Director of the Sterlization and Social Justice Lab based at the University of California Los Angeles. This workshop would provide an opportunity for us to discuss how to start and run a humanities lab, from funding and lab space to the ins and outs of lab management. 
 
Confirmed Presenters
Natalie Lira (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

Lancet Commission on Medicine, Nazism, and the Holocaust: Implications for Today, Teaching for Tomorrow
 
This session will discuss a recent report and associated work by the Lancet Commission on Medicine, Nazism, and the Holocaust--a group of historians and other scholars dedicated to incorporating the history of medicine under Nazism and the Holocaust into the education of health care students and professionals today. Presenters will introduce the Commission, its work, and the findings of its report. You can take a look at the following to see some of the Commission's recent publications in The Lancet: https://www.thelancet.com/commissions/medicine-and-the-holocaust
 
Confirmed Presenters:
Sari J. Siegel
Matthew Wynia

How To Do History as a Clinician, PART 2: Identifying Barriers and Imagining Solutions
 
Are you interested in a medical career but also have a love for historical research? There are many possible training and career paths for clinicians who also do historical research and teach medical history. This session will build on our initial discussion from the Fall to identify barriers and obstacles to doing history as a clinician and imagining solutions. The first half will involve open discussion among participants about the challenges to doing history as a clinician at various levels of training, from undergraduate and medical school to residency and early career. The second half will feature panelists who will identify organizations attempting to address those challenges. The goal is to identify concrete steps to make history and clinical work more accessible.
 
Panelists: Nora O’Neill, Jonathan Kuo
 
Note: You do NOT need to have attended Part 1 to attend Part 2.

“Pharmaceutical Captivity, Epistemological Rupture, and the Business Archive of the British Slave Trade” with Prof Carolyn Roberts
 
For our first session of the new year, we will be reading and discussing Professor Carolyn Roberts’ excellent new article “Pharmaceutical Captivity, Epistemological Rupture, and the Business Archive of the British Slave Trade” published in Business History Review. Professor Roberts will be joined by two respondents: historian-activist Kenya Loudd, who studies race and disability, and Dr. Amanda Calhoun, a psychiatrist, researcher, and advocate. After their comments, we will open up for question and answer with Prof Roberts and respondents. The article is attached here. We hope to see you there!
 
Author: Carolyn Roberts
Respondents: Kenya Loudd, Amanda Calhoun

Sterilization and Social Justice Lab
 
In this session we will hear from members of the Sterilization and Social Justice Lab about their work to use history of eugenics and sertilization in the U.S. to uncover and help redress past abuses. They have circulated two articles for optional reading ahead of their presentation (see below).
 
Confirmed Panelists: Natalie Lira, PhD and Marie Kaniecki, MPH
 

How to Do History as a Clinician: A Panel Featuring Current Medical Students and Early Career Clinicians
 
Are you interested in a medical career but also have a love for historical research? There are many possible training and career paths for clinicians who also do historical research and teach medical history. The panel will consist of current students as well as early career clinicians who took different paths to becoming clinician historians. We'll discuss combined training programs, including MD/PhD and MA programs and more.
 
Panelists: Nora O'Neill, Joshua Glahn, Leigh Alon, Lisa Haushofer 
 

Group Discussion: Processing and Planning for Next Year