History of Medicine and Health

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Upcoming Meetings

There are no currently scheduled upcoming events.

Past Meetings

  • February 4, 2014

    Bridget Gurtler of Princeton University introduced her "Desiring Reproduction: Donor Insemination and the Eugenic Politics of Pleasure in Interwar America"
  • December 3, 2013

    Johanna Schoen of Rutgers University introduced her paper "Constructing the Truth About Abortion: The Debate Surrounding intact D&E"
  • November 5, 2013

    Meggie Crnic of the University of Pennsylvania introduced her "Nature's Cure,": The Seashore as Therapeutic Site, 1870-1930.
  • October 1, 2013

    David Barnes of the University of Pennsylvania introduced his draft paper Cargo, "Infection," and the Logic of Quarantine in the Nineteenth Century
  • March 14, 2013

    Cheryl Logan introduced "Productive" Eugenics and the Double Gonad which is a chapter from her forthcoming book Hormones, Heredity and Race:"Spectacular Failure in Interwar Vienna (Rutgers University Press).
  • February 14, 2013

    Johanna Schoen introduced her draft chapter, Medicine at the Edges of Life: Abortion and Fetal Research
  • December 13, 2012

    Emily Abel and Janet Golden introduced their paper "Modern Medical Science and the Divine Providence of God": Rethinking The Place of Religion in Postwar United States Medical History.
  • November 8, 2012

    Greg Eghigian of Penn State introduced a draft chapter, Civilizing Sexuality Under Socialism, from his book tentatively titled The Corrigible and the Incorrigible: Science, Medicine, and the Convict in Twentieth-Century Germany."
  • October 11, 2012

    The Museum Factory: Charles H. Ward's Anatomical Supply House by Erin Mcleary
  • April 11, 2012

    Safe for Citizenship in the Motor City: Experiments in Seizure Containment at the White Special School, 1935-1956 by Rachel Elder, UPenn