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American Association for the History of Medicine

Call for Papers, 2005 Annual Meeting

The American Association for the History of Medicine invites submissions in any area of medical history for its 78th annual meeting, to be held in Birmingham, Alabama, 7-10 April 2005. The Association welcomes papers on topics related to the history of health and healing; of medical ideas, practices, and institutions; and of illness, disease, and public health, from all eras and regions of the world. In addition to single-paper proposals, the program committee welcomes proposals for sessions and luncheon workshops; individual papers for those sessions will be judged on their own merits.

Presentations are limited to 20 minutes. Individuals wishing to present a paper must attend the meeting. All papers must represent original work not already published or in press. Because the Bulletin of the History of Medicine is the official journal of the AAHM, the Association encourages speakers to make their manuscripts available for consideration by the Bulletin.

This year, the AAHM is using an online abstract submission system. We warmly encourage all applicants to use this system. The website is: http://histmed.org. It is easy to use.

If you are unable to submit online, you may submit by sending eight copies of a one-page abstract (350 words maximum) to the Program Committee Chair: Walton O. Schalick, III, M.D., Ph.D., Washington University, Department of Pediatrics, One Brookings Drive, Box 8116, St. Louis, MO 63110.

Abstracts should clearly state findings and conclusions as well as research questions. They should also provide the following information on the same sheet: name, preferred mailing address, work and home telephone numbers, e-mail address, present institutional affiliation, and academic degrees. Abstracts must be received by 15 September 2004. E-mail or faxed proposals will not be accepted.

In Memoriam

Thomas Neville Bonner (1923-2003)

Thomas Neville Bonner died on 2 September 2003 in Scottsdale, Arizona, after a courageous two-year battle against cancer of the biliary tract system. The history of medicine community has lost an eminent scholar, true gentleman, and warm and caring friend.

Bonner was born on 28 May 1923 in Rochester, New York, and he attended public schools in the Sedge Wood neighborhood of Rochester, where he was an excellent student, particularly in mathematics. An outstanding baseball player and excellent all-around athlete, he also worked at a variety of jobs throughout his boyhood. He graduated from Monroe High School in Rochester, and then served in the Army Signal Corps intelligence unit in Europe during World War II. After his discharge, he obtained a bachelor's degree (1947) and master's degree (1949) in history from the University of Rochester. He was the first of his family to attend college, and he had never even dreamed of doing so until a high-school teacher encouraged him. In 1952, he obtained a doctorate in history from Northwestern University, where he wrote his dissertation under the tutelage of the distinguished American historian Ray Billington.

Bonner then joined the faculty at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where he rapidly rose through the ranks to become professor of history and head of the Section of Social Sciences. This was a period of remarkable scholarly productivity for him: in addition to writing two well-received textbooks—The Contemporary World: The Social Sciences in Historical Perspective (1960, with Diane W. Hill and George W. Wilber) and Our Recent Past: American Civilization in the Twentieth Century (1963)—he produced three notable books in the history of medicine: Medicine in Chicago 1850-1950: A Chapter in the Social and Scientific Development of a City (1957), The Kansas Doctor: A Century of Pioneering (1959), and American Doctors and German Universities: A Chapter in International Intellectual Relations, 1870-1914 (1963). The first two of these are exemplary case studies—thoroughly researched, engagingly written, and well contextualized in the appropriate medical and historical framework. The last of the three is a pioneering work on the intellectual relations between German...