History of Medicine and Health

Patricio Simonetto, University College London, “The Body Where I Was Born In: Embodiment Repertoires During the Sex Change Transition.” Comment by Beans Velocci, University of Pennsylvania.

Kirsten Moore-Sheeley, Cedars-Sinai, “Marketing Malaria Control: Nets, Neoliberalism, and a New Approach to Fighting Malaria.” Comment by Ted Brown, University of Rochester.

Richard Tait, “Doctors in Society: 15th Century Italy" Thesis Chapter. Ann Carmichael of Indiana University will provide comment.

*Please note special date and time.*
 
Ashoka Vardhan, “Mining the Landscapes: Coal in Hyderabad State, c. 1871-1890.”
 
Lorena Campuzano Duque, “Sick Mining Landscapes and the Quest of Healthy Miners, 1930-1958.”
 
This is a joint meeting with the Energy History Working Group.

*Please note special date and time.*
 
Georges Farhat, "Louis Savot’s (ca. 1579-1640) Galenic Perspective on the Art of Building"
 
This is a joint meeting with the History of Early Modern Science Working Group.

Felix Rietmann, University of Fribourg, presents "Narrating Infant Experiences: Audiovisual Stories in the Clinic and around the Globe (1980s–1990s)" -- a chapter from his book manuscript. Comment by Debbie Weinstein, Brown University.

 
*The passcode for the meeting is 269565*
 
 
Errors, Ethics, and Professional Status from the Middle Ages to Modern
Medicine
AAHM Ann Arbor 2.0, 2020 Conference Panel 5

Walton Schalick, III, University of Wisconsin, Madison
“Errare humanum est:” Medical Errors in the Middle Ages

Fedir Razumenko, University of Calgary
Bridging Clinical Investigation with Ethical Regulation: Four Pioneering Gynecologic Cancer Trials in Canada, 1974-1984

Andrew Hogan, Creighton University
Defining a Home for Disability in Late-20th Century Pediatrics: Specialties and Status

Kelly O’Donnell, NEH Postdoctoral Fellow, CHSTM, “‘Public Relations in Action’: Doctors’ Wives and the Fight Against Socialized Medicine, 1924–1965.” Commentary by Naomi Rogers, Yale University.
 

Haejoo Kim, Syracuse University, "Medical Liberty in Nineteenth-Century Anti-Vaccination Rhetoric." Comment by Pamela K. Gilbert, University of Florida.

Mary Fissell, Johns Hopkins University, will share drafts of the introduction and Chapter 2 of a book in progress about Aristotle’s Masterpiece, now tentatively titled Before Sex Ed.
Lauren Kassell,  Professor of the History of Science and Medicine, University of Cambridge, will provide the comment.

Paul Kelton, Stony Brook University.  "Buried: the Hidden Terror of Cholera in Jackson's America, 1832-1836." 
Comment by Charles E. Rosenberg

Ian Burney, Manchester University.  "Staging Innocence: The Origins of the Court of Last Resort and the Imaginative Landscapes of Frontier Justice."
Comment by Christopher Hamlin, University of Notre Dame. 

Emily Webster, University of Chicago, on "A Plague on the Land, on the Sea, and in the Sewers: Ecologies of Yersinia pestis in Bombay City, 1890-1914." Response by Lucas Mueller, University of Geneva.

*Please note this meeting has been canceled. We hope to reschedule at a later date.*
Elise Mitchell, New York University, speaking on "Smallpox Inoculation, Slavery, and Kinship in the Atlantic World." 

Sarah Naramore, Sewanee: The University of the South, presents a chapter from her dissertation on Benjamin Rush, on the way that the distinctive American climate and geography called forth a uniquely American medicine.

Wangui Muigai, Brandeis University, “'Something Wasn’t Clean': Black Midwifery, Birth, and Postwar Medical Education in All My Babies."
Comment: Leslie Reagan, University of Illinois at Champaign Urbana

Janet Golden, Professor of History, Rutgers University-Camden.
"'Normal Enough': Paula Patton, Intellectually Disabled Immigrant Children, and the 1924 Immigration Act."
 Comment by Jaipreet Virdi, Assistant Professor of History, University of Delaware. 

Julie Powell, Ohio State University, on "The Labor Army of Tomorrow: Masculinity and the Internationalization of Veterans’ Rehabilitation, 1914-1924." Comment by the work group.

Catherine Cox and Hilary Marland, 'The Making of the Modern Prison System: Reformation, Separation and the Mind, 1840-1860'.
Comment by James Moran, University of Prince Edward Island.

Shobana Shankar, Stony Brook University, speaking on "The Mississippi Appendectomy: Prison Medicine as a Process of African-American Alienation."
Comment by Susan Reverby, Professor Emerita, Wellesley College.