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American Association for the History of Medicine: Report of the Seventy-seventh Annual Meeting
- Bulletin of the History of Medicine
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 78, Number 3, Fall 2004
- pp. 670-690
- 10.1353/bhm.2004.0140
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Bulletin of the History of Medicine 78.3 (2004) 670-690
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American Association for the History of Medicine:
Report of the Seventy-seventh Annual Meeting
The seventy-seventh annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine was held in Madison, Wisconsin, 29 April-2 May 2004 at the Monona Terrace Hilton.
The following summary has been prepared by the Secretary-Treasurer, Todd L. Savitt, and is intended for the information of the members of the Association. The official minutes and reports are preserved in the office of the Secretary.
Program
Thursday, 29 April
AAHM Council Meeting
Opening Reception
Friday, 30 April
Plenary Session
Welcoming remarks, Kenneth M. Ludmerer and Jacalyn Duffin, presiding
Presidential Address
Kenneth M. Ludmerer [End Page 670]
Concurrent Sessions: Block I
Session A: Psychiatry in the Medicine Cabinet: Recent Work on the History of Psychopharmacology, Edward Shorter, presiding
Max Fink
Suicide in the Course of the Treatment of Schizophrenia
David Healy
Tranquilizers, Patients, and Profits: The Pharmaceutical Management of Anxiety
Andrea Tone
Session B: Anatomy and the Body in Europe, 1300-1900, Michael Sappol, presiding
Caroline S. Hillard
Is It a Boy or a Girl? Representations of Gender in Early Nineteenth-Century Anatomy Texts
Barbara Baumgartner
Supplying Bodies to Viennese Anatomy, 1848-1914
Tatjana Buklijas
Session C: Colonial and Post-Colonial Medicine, Warwick Anderson, presiding
Shang-Jen Li
Sanitizing the Domestic: Care, Cleanliness, and the Spatial Imagination in Bengali Nationalist Discourses in the Early Twentieth Century
Srirupa Prasad
"Asian Rickets" or "The English Disease"? Diet, Culture and Assimilation in Post-Colonial Medicine
Roberta Bivins
Session D: Alternative Approaches, Rennie Schoepflin, presiding
Krister Dylan Knapp [End Page 671]
Finding Health in the Machine: Technological Enthusiasm and the Founding of Osteopathy
Matthew Gilmartin
"Spaced-Out": LSD-Inspired Transformations at Psychiatric Hospitals, 1950-1968
Erica Dyck
Luncheon Workshops
Catherine J. Kudlick, Beth Linker, Kim E. Nielsen, Katherine Ott, Naomi Rogers, and Daniel J. Wilson
Pharmaceuticals in the History of Medicine: Methodologies and Resources (co-sponsored by the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy)
Jeremy Greene, Gregory J. Higby, Jonathan Metzl, Nicolas Rasmussen, and John Swann
History of Medicine and Health: Beyond the Classroom Walls
Stephanie Brown Clark, Alexandra M. Lord, Jeffrey S. Reznick, and Molly P. Sutphen
Concurrent Sessions: Block II
Session A: Race and Medical Education in the U.S. since WWII, Randall Packard, presiding
Karen Kruse Thomas
Breaking through the Ivory White Tower: The Racial Integration of Medical Education, 1950-1970
P. Preston Reynolds
Civil Rights and the Transformation of the UCSF School of Medicine, 1960-1972: An Analysis of Political Will
Nancy Rockafellar
Session B: Tradition and Innovation in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Medicine, Alison Winter, presiding
John C. Powers [End Page 672]
The Active and the Passive: Soul, Matter and the Transformation of the Vital Principle in Eighteenth-Century Vitalism
Kevin Chang
"The Will Present in Vision": M.F.R. Buisson's Concept of the Gaze and its Significance for Medical Practice
Patrick Singy
Session C: Ancient Medicine and Surgery (co-sponsored by the Society for Ancient Medicine), Julie Laskaris, presiding
Siam Bhayro
Color, Complexion, and Prognosis in an Early Sanskrit Medical Manual
Martha Ann Selby
Head and Neck Surgery in the Byzantine Era (324-1453)
Stephanos Geroulanos
Session D: Popularizing and Performing Medicine, Joel Howell, presiding
Charles Hayter
Re-evaluating Paul...