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

The seventy-fourth annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine was held in Charleston, South Carolina, 19-22 April 2001, at the Westin Francis Marion 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, 19 April

AAHM Council Meeting
Opening Reception

Friday, 20 April

Session 1: Welcome and Plenary Session, Judith W. Leavitt, president, presiding

Judge Alex Sanders, President, College of Charleston
Raymond S. Greenberg, President, Medical University of South Carolina
W. Curtis Worthington and Peter McCandless, Co-Chairs, Local Arrangements Committee
Janet Golden and Rima Apple, Co-Chairs, Program Committee
The Racial Politics of Care, Keith Wailoo, presiding

Gender, Race and the Politics of Indigent Medical Care in Birmingham, Alabama, 1950-1964: Academic Medical Centers and the Meta-language of Race
         Charlotte G. Borst

White Plague in Black L.A.: Tuberculosis among African Americans in Los Angeles, 1930-1950
        Laura K. Moorhead

Fighting Scourges Among the Waifs: Public Health Nurses in Southern California, 1928-1948
        Clifford E. Trafzer

Concurrent Sessions

Session 2: Nursing in International Perspective, Julie Fairman, presiding

Black Women in Health Care Delivery in Atlanta in the Early Twentieth Century: The Neighborhood Union, Spelman College's McVicar Hospital and the Nurses from Morris Brown College
        Dalila De Sousa Sheppard

Contributions of Nurses to the Development of the State of Israel, 1936-1948
        Peri Rosenfeld

Perfect Discipline and Earnest Zeal: The Medical Profession and the Development of Nursing in Nineteenth-Century Dublin
        Ann Wickham

Session 3: Medical Technologies in the Twentieth Century, Kim Pelis, presiding

Medicine, Machine and Survival: The Iron Lung and the Polio Epidemics, 1928-1955
        Lynn M. Dunphy

Weapons of Life in a Time of Death: Pharmaceuticals for the Military in World War II
        Dennis B. Worthen

Session 4: Early Medicine, F. Eliza Glaze, presiding

Commercializing Medicine or Benefiting the People--The First Pharmacy in China
        Asaf Goldschmidt

Legislating Health, The Case of Minuti and Infirmi in the Mediaeval Monastery
        M.K.K. Yearl

Astrology, Almanacs and Medical Practice in Late Medieval England
        Cornelius O'Boyle

Luncheon Sessions

Medical History on CD-Rom: A Work in Progress
        Charles Hayter

Readers Theater as a Tool in Teaching History of Medicine and
Bias in Medicine
        Todd L. Savitt

Session 5: Distributing Treatment (Cosponsored by the History of Science Society), Gregory J. Higby, presiding

Drug Provision and Distribution for the Union and Confederate Armies, 1861-1865: A Study in Contrasts
        Michael A. Flannery

Seeds of Discord: The Use and Distribution of Radon Therapy in Ontario, 1933-1940
        Charles Hayter

Guilt, Infectious Disease, and Penicillin
        Robert Bud

Session 6: Medical Institutions in International Perspective, Gerald N. Grob, presiding

Institutional Psychiatry in Germany in the Late Eighteenth and
Early Nineteenth Centuries: The Royal Bavarian Insane Asylum of Giesing/Munich
        David Lederer

Building the Burgholzli: Psychiatry, Politics and Architecture in Zurich, 1850-1870
        Nicole Butz

Redefining Isolation: Hospital Diseases, Hospital Architecture, and the New York Hospital
        Jeanne Kisacky

Session 7: Women, Medicine and the Body, Suzanne White Junod, presiding

The Rhythms of Fertility and Sterility in Women: Leo Latz, the Rhythm Method, and the American Catholic Church
        Patricia M. Lennon

Obesity and the New Realism: What Does It Mean for Doctors and Patients?
        Ann F. La Berge

Session 8: Race and Medical Care, Monica Green, presiding

Policy and Practice: Tuberculosis at the Sherman Institute, 1902-1922
        Jean Keller

From "Identified Lives" to Epidemic: Renal Failure, Race, and Chronic Dialysis
        Steven J. Peitzman

Annual Lecture

South Carolina Monuments and the "C's" of Medicine
        Charles S. Bryan

Saturday, 21 April

Concurrent Sessions

Session 9: Colonial Medicine in East Asia, James Bono, presiding

Disease, Doctors and Development: Japanese Colonial Medicine in Manchuria
        Robert Perrins...