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

The seventy-third Annual Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine was held in Bethesda, Maryland, 18-21 May 2000 at the Hyatt Regency-Bethesda 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, 18 May

AAHM Council Meeting
Opening Reception
Medical Cartoon Program

Friday, 19 May

Session 1: Welcome and Presidential Address, Todd L. Savitt, presiding

Elizabeth Fee, Chair, Local Arrangements Committee
Donald A. B. Lindberg, Director, National Library of Medicine
John Parascandola, President, Washington Society for the History of Medicine
Harry M. Marks, Chair, Program Committee

Presidential Address, "The Wounded Healer," Stanley W. Jackson
(read by Sherwin P. Nuland)

Concurrent Sessions

Session 2: Does the Study of History Affect Clinical Practice? Intersex as a Case Study, Allan M. Brandt, presiding

Does the Study of History Affect Clinical Practice? The Historian's View
Alice D. Dreger

Does the Study of History Affect Clinical Practice? The Physician's View
Jorge J. Daaboul

Does the Study of History Affect Clinical Practice? The Patient-Advocate's View
Cheryl Chase

Session 3: Segregation: Contexts and Consequences, Vanessa N. Gamble, presiding

"Building the Fence": Medical Segregation and Racial Segregation in Early Twentieth-Century Baltimore
JoAnne Brown

Racial Integration and an Oasis of Black Hospitals: Lincoln Hospital, 1901-1976
P. Preston Reynolds

Migration and Mental Illness among African Americans, 1910-1940
Kirby Randolph

Session 4: Medicine and Entitlement, Alan M. Kraut, presiding

Medicine, Bureaucracy, and Social Welfare: The Politics of Disability Compensation for American Veterans of World War I
K. Walter Hickel

Defining Disability, Limiting Liability: The Care of Thalidomide Victims in Canada
Barbara Clow

The Right to Health Care in the United States: Toward a Legal History
Beatrix Hoffman

Session 5: How We Die: Religion, Medicine, and the Law, James C. Mohr, presiding

Transcending Corruption and "Spiritualizing" the Body: The Cremation Movement in Late-Nineteenth-Century America
Karen P. Flood

Albright's Coma: Mind, Body, and Ethics in American Medicine, 1955-1970
Gary S. Belkin

Session 6: Medical Practice in the Old and New Worlds, Thomas N. Bonner, presiding

A Colonial Maryland Medical Practice: Dr. Hamilton Adapts His Edinburgh Training to the New World
Elaine G. Breslaw

Medical Ethics in Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century New England
Norman Gevitz

"A Peculiar and Domestic Scourge to our English Infants": English Medicine and the Representation of Rickets
Kevin Grau

Luncheon Sessions

Biography from Below: Connecting the Dots in the Lives of Not So Well Known Physicians with the Help of Historical, Biographical, and Genealogical Research
Anne K. Toohey, Marilyn K. Parr, and Elizabeth Tunis

Policy History and the History of Medicine
Suzanne White Junod, Paul Lombardo, John Swann, and Philip Teigen

From the Thesis to the Theatre: Putting Psychiatric Patients' History on Stage
Geoffrey Reaume, Ruth (Ruth) Stackhouse, Ken Innes, and The Puzzle Factory Friendly Spike Theatre Band Acting Troupe

Concurrent Sessions

Session 7: Lead and Public Health, John C. Burnham, presiding

The Rise and Fall of Universal Screening for Childhood Lead Poisoning in the United States
Christian Warren

"Cater to the Children": Marketing Lead Paint to Kids in the Years Between the Wars
David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz

Placing Lead Poisoning in Mid-Century America
Christopher C. Sellers

The Apparent Fall and Rise of Lead Poisoning as a Feminist Issue
Allison L. Hepler

Session 8: Clinical Gazes, Jacalyn Duffin, presiding

The Dean Undone: Masculine Gaze and Feminine Flux in an Early Nineteenth-Century Parisian Hospital
William R. Albury

Medicine at the Baltimore Almshouse, 1833-1838: The Casebook of Dr. James Henry Miller
Alexa H. Green

The Worldwide Emergence of Kawasaki Disease in the Twentieth Century
Howard I. Kushner, Christena Turner, Jane C. Burns, and John Bastian...