American Association for the History of Medicine: Report of the Seventy-eighth Annual Meeting

The seventy eighth annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine was held in Birmingham, Alabama, 7–10 April 2005 at the Sheraton Birmingham Hotel.

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, 7 April

AAHM Council Meeting

Opening Reception

Friday, 8 April

Welcome and Introduction, Jacalyn Duffin, presiding

Concurrent Sessions

Session 1: Medicine in South America, Marcos Cueto, presiding

Bless the Pill: How the Catholic Church Promoted Oral Contraceptives in Peru, 1965–1985
Raul Necochea

Russia from the Outside, Uruguay from the Inside
Anne Emanuelle Birn

The Resilience of Medical Research in an Anti Intellectual Climate
Jonathan Hagood

Session 2: Historical Paths to Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Arleen Tuchman, presiding

Organic Etiology of Psychiatric Disorders in Historical Perspective
Howard I. Kushner

Profiling Risk: Cohort Research and the Emergence of Coronary Heart Disease Epidemiology
Gerald M. Oppenheimer

The Etiology of Lung Cancer: The Struggle between the New Chronic Disease Epidemiology and the Scientific Advisory Board to the Tobacco Industry Research Committee, 1954–1964
Colin L.Talley

Session 3: French Medicine at Home and Abroad, George Weisz, presiding

A Louse, Divided: Contrasting Styles of Bacteriological Demonstration in French North Africa, 1906–1922
Kim Pelis

The Experimental Logic of Philippe Ricord's "New Doctrine" of the Venereal Diseases
Alex Dracobly

The Failure of a Best Seller: Two Editions of Philippe Pinel's Treatise on Mental Alienation, 1809 v 1800
Dora B.Weiner

Concurrent Sessions

Session 4: Canceled

Session 5: The Professional Establishment, Kenneth M. Ludmerer, presiding

Resident Ironies: Graduate Medical Education and Health Care Policy, 1944–1965
Jennifer L. Gunn

"Where Does Hematology End and Oncology Begin?": Questions of Professional Boundaries and Medical Authority
Gretchen M. Krueger

"A Plain and Temperate Diet": Vegetarianism and Orthodox Medical Practitioners in the 1820s and 1830s
Margaret Puskar Pasewicz

Session 6: Sexing Medicine, Ellen Singer More, presiding

Clothing Makes the Man (Or Woman): Medicine, Intersexuality, and the Importance of Dressing the Part, 1925–1955
Sarah B. Webber

Medicine, Androgyny, and Race
Patrick Warren

The "Sexed" Treatment of Female Patients in Early Modern British Medicine, circa 1590–1740
Wendy D. Churchill

Luncheon Sessions

Medical History and Medical Professionalism
Chester R. Burns, James Mohr, P. Preston Reynolds, and Rosemary Stevens

The Medical Movies on DVD Project
David Cantor, Michael Sappol, and Paul Theerman

Concurrent Sessions

Session 7: It Pays to Believe: Medicine and Faith, Ronald L. Numbers, presiding

Christian Materialism: Religion and the Re conceptualization of Mind as a Function of the Brain in Early Nineteenth Century Britain
Elfed Huw Price

"Advance Guards of the Health Army": The Bureau of Nursing Service for New York City's Association for Improving the Conditions of the Poor, 1900–1940
Cynthia A. Connolly

Medical Fideism in the Inquisition's Prosecution of False Visionaries in Seventeenth Century Spain
Andrew W. Keitt

Session 8: Medical Polity, Keith Wailoo, presiding

Medical Ecology and the Japanese Empire: Political and Ethical Implications (read by Keith Wailoo)
Ruth Rogaski

Politics, Policy and the Measuring of Child Health
Richard A. Meckel

"The Public Health Miracle": Public Health Policy in American Occupied Germany, 1945–1949
Dagmar U. Ellerbrock

Session 9: Women and Medicine Abroad, Judith Leavitt, presiding

The Menstrual Cycle as a "Measure of Man": Colonial Midwifery, Race and Gender in Colonial India, 1840s–90s
Ishita Pande

Women at War: Dr. Clara Maude Nasmyth—One of a Group of British Trained Women Physicians Who Set up Field Hospitals in Serbia During WWI
Marianne P. Fedunkiw

"Punjab Pioneer": Edith Brown and the North India School of Medicine for Christian Women
Maneesha Lal

Concurrent Sessions

Session 10: Early Modern Medicine in Practice and Theory, Brian Nance, presiding

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