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American Association for the History of Medicine

Committee Members — 1998–99

Annual Meetings Committee: Jacalyn Duffin (chair), Paul Berman, Amalie Kass, Rima Apple, Regina Morantz-Sanchez, and Bruce Fye

Clinician-Historian Committee: Douglas Bacon (chair), Clark Sawin, and Andrew Morgan

Electronic Media Committee: Russell Maulitz (chair), Joel Howell, William Helfand, Christine Ruggere, Edward Morman, and David Pearson

Garrison Lecture Committee: Gary Ferngren (chair), James Bono, Howard Markel, Ann La Berge, and Nancy Tomes

Lifetime Achievement Award Committee: John Parascandola (chair), Ynez O’Neill, and Theodore Brown

Local Arrangements Committee: Gerald Grob (chair), Robert Pinals, William Helfand, William Campbell, Sandra Moss, Charles Heitzman, Vincent Cirillo, Allen Weisse, Philip Pauly, Karen Reeds, and Elizabeth Lunbeck

Newsletter: Dale Smith (editor)

Nominating Committee: Harold Cook (chair), Margaret Humphreys, and Ellen More

Osler Medal Committee: William Summers (chair), Sally Smith Hughes, Daniel Albert, Alison Li, and Vernon Rosario

Program Committee: Elizabeth Fee (chair), Susan Smith, Sandra Moss, Walton Schalick, Gerald Oppenheimer, Janet Golden, and Susan Abrams

Publications Committee: Naomi Rogers (chair), Dora Weiner, and Karen Reeds

Shryock Medal Committee: Thomas Gariepy (chair), Toby Appel, Darwin Stapleton, Anne-Emanuelle Birn, and Robert Martensen

Welch Medal Committee: Philip Teigen (chair), Edward Atwater, Joanne Phillips, Nancy Siraisi, and John Swann

National and International News

A New Journal. The Australian Society of the History of Medicine announces the publication of the biennial Health and History: The Bulletin of the Australian Society of the History of Medicine. For further information, contact: Australian Society of the History of Medicine, P.O. Box 1043, West Leederville, W. A. 6901, Australia.

Bakken Library and Museum. The Library and Museum, in Minneapolis, offers visiting research fellowships to facilitate use of its collection of books, journals, manuscripts, prints, and instruments. The Bakken’s collection focuses on the history of electricity and magnetism and their applications in the life sciences and medicine. Related materials including those pertaining to mesmerism and animal magnetism, nineteenth-century ephemera concerning alternative electromedical therapies, miscellaneous scientists’ letters, and trade catalogues. The instruments include electrostatic generators, magneto-electric generators, induction coils, physiological instruments, recording devices, and accessories.

The fellowship is a maximum of $1,300 and is to be used for travel, subsistence, and other direct costs of conducting research at The Bakken. The minimum period of residence is one week, and the grants are open to all researchers. Deadline for applications: 1 March 1999. For further information, please contact: David J. Rhees, Executive Director, The Bakken Library and Museum, 3537 Zenith Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55416 (tel.: 612-927-6508; fax: 612-927-7265).

Catholic University of Nijmegen. An Advanced European Bioethics Course, “Ethics and Palliative Care,” will be offered from 8–10 April 1999 in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Subjects include the evolution of palliative care. For further information contact: Dr. B. Gordijn, Catholic University of Nijmegen, 232 Dept. of Ethics, Philosophy and History of Medicine, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands (tel.: 31-24-3615320; fax: 31-24-3540254; e-mail: b.gordijn@efg.kun.nl; website: http://www.azn.nl/fmw/onderwys/ukpallia.htm).

Centre de recherche en histoire des sciences et des techniques, Paris. “Medicine as a Social Instrument: The Rockefeller Foundation, Medical Research, and Public Health in the Interwar Era” was the title of a workshop held on 29 and 30 May 1998, sponsored by the Center with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Chairs of the workshop were Ilana Löwy and Patrick Zylberman. The subject of the first day’s talks was “Styles of Intervention of the Rockefeller Foundation.” Speakers and their topics were: Anne-Marie Rafferty, “The Politics of Patronage: Public Health Nursing in Central And Eastern Europe, 1919–1939”; Marta Balinska, “The Rockefeller Foundation and the National Hygiene Institute of Poland, 1922–1945”; Susan G. Solomon, “Rockefeller Goes to Russia, 1917–1950”; Gabor Pallo, “Rescue and Cordon Sanitaire: The Rockefeller Foundation in Hungary in the Interwar Period”; Anne-Emanuelle Birn, “Diplomacy, Politics, Science, Bureaucracy, and Rockefeller Public Health in Mexico, “1920–1950”; Ilana Löwy, “Who, What, How? The Rockefeller Foundation and the Fight against Yellow Fever in Brazil, 1923–1939”; Gilberto Corbellini, “The Rockefeller Foundation’s Wars against Italian Malaria...