Bridget Gurtler of Princeton University introduced her "Desiring Reproduction: Donor Insemination and the Eugenic Politics of Pleasure in Interwar America"
The History of Medicine and Health Working Group meets monthly to discuss a colleague’s work in progress or to discuss readings that are of particular interest to participants.
Meetings are usually held from 3:30 to 5:00 on first Fridays.
Scholars can participate online, or at the Consortium offices in Philadelphia, 431 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, or at the New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue (@ 103rd Street), New York, NY 10029.
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Past Meetings
Johanna Schoen of Rutgers University introduced her paper "Constructing the Truth About Abortion: The Debate Surrounding intact D&E"
Meggie Crnic of the University of Pennsylvania introduced her "Nature's Cure,": The Seashore as Therapeutic Site, 1870-1930.
David Barnes of the University of Pennsylvania introduced his draft paper Cargo, "Infection," and the Logic of Quarantine in the Nineteenth Century
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).
Johanna Schoen introduced her draft chapter, Medicine at the Edges of Life: Abortion and Fetal Research
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.
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."
The Museum Factory: Charles H. Ward's Anatomical Supply House by Erin Mcleary
Safe for Citizenship in the Motor City: Experiments in Seizure Containment at the White Special School, 1935-1956 by Rachel Elder, UPenn
Just a paradigm: evidence-based medicine in epistemological context by Miriam Solomon, Temple
Children at the Sea: The Seashore as Remedy for Urban Environments by Meggie Crnic, UPenn
A Startling New Chemotherapeutic Agent: Pediatrics, Infectious Disease and Baltimore's Sydenham Hospital 1936-1949 by Cynthia Connolly (UPenn) and Janet Golden (Rutgers)
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