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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

The History of Discrimination in American Medical Education
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

Social Constraints in Psychiatric Treatment: A Lesson from Insulin Coma Therapy
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

The Human Skeleton in Medieval Art and Anatomy
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

Eating Well in China: Nineteenth-Century British Medical Attitudes towards Chinese Food
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

Hamlet's Ghost and the Spirit-Cure: William James, Psychopathology, and the Turn to Alternative Healing
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

Not Your Father's Old-Time Medical History: The New Disability History and Its Claim to Authenticity
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

Race, Public Policy and the Expansion of Southern Medical Education, 1940-1985
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

Morality and Method in Medicine: Herman Boerhaave and the Calvinist Hippocrates
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

The Anatomy and Physiology of the Head and Brain in Syriac Medical Literature
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

Songs, Satire and Sex: A Brief History of the Medical Student Show
Charles Hayter

Re-evaluating Paul...

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