The seventy-second Annual Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine was held in New Brunswick, New Jersey, 6–9 May 1999 at the Hyatt Regency-New Brunswick 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, 6 May
AAHM Council Meeting Opening Reception
Friday, 7 May
| Session 1: | Welcome and Plenary Session,Todd L. Savitt,presiding |
| Gerald N. Grob, Chair, Local Arrangements Committee |
| Joseph Seneca, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Rutgers University |
| Harold Paz, Dean, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, UMDNJ |
| Elizabeth Fee, Chair, AAHM Program Committee |
| Plenary Session: | Creating the Self: Anatomy and Endocrinology |
| Anatomizing the ‘Humane’ Subject: Anatomy, Humanitarianism and the Universal Human in Nineteenth-Century Medical Discourse |
| Michael Sappol |
| Creating and Regulating the Hormonal Self in Postwar American Culture |
| David Harley Serlin |
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Concurrent Sessions
| Session 2: | Anatomical Constructions,Mary E. Fissell,presiding |
| Constructing the Norm: Medical Advice Literature to Adolescents in Canada, 1873–1922 |
| Jennifer Susan Marotta |
| Arguing about Ovaries in the 18th Century |
| Estelle Cohen |
| Popular Anatomical Museums in Nineteenth-Century London and the Democratization of Medical Knowledge |
| M. Rene Burmeister |
| Session 3: | Clinical Encounters, Russell C. Maulitz, presiding |
| Doctoring: Seeking Medical Care in Boston, 1900–1920 |
| Christopher Crenner |
| Becoming a Patient in the Early Twentieth Century: Personal and Historical Perspectives |
| Christine K. Bass |
| Medicine and the Passions: Emotion, Disease, and the Clinical Encounter |
| Otniel E. Dror |
| Session 4: | Medicine and Disease in Early Modern Germany, Thomas Broman, presiding |
| Physicians for Protestant Orthodoxy? Medicine at Wittenberg in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries |
| Michael Stolberg |
| Plague Hospitals in Early Modern Germany |
| Otto Ulbricht |
| The French Disease and Its Metaphors in Early Modern Germany |
| Claudia Stein |
| Session 5: | Race, Gender, and Emerging Diseases, Vanessa Northington Gamble, presiding |
| Chronicle of a Disaster Foretold: Emerging Diseases and the Political Economy of Novelty |
| Nick King |
| The Common Foe: Malaria, the Japanese, and the United States in the South Pacific, 1941–1945 |
| Alan Hawk |
| Engineering the Black Epileptic: Psychiatry and the Importance of Race and Gender in the Construction of Epilepsy as Disease, 1932–1941 |
| Dennis A. Doyle |
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| Luncheon Sessions | Presenting History to Public Health Audiences |
| Theodore M. Brown, chair |
| Theodore M. Brown, Amy Fairchild, Elizabeth Fee, Patricia Evridge Hill, Gerald Oppenheimer, and David Rosner, panelists |
| Building a Successful Local AAHM Chapter: Lessons from Philadelphia |
| Robert M. Kaiser, presenter |
| Decade of AIDS History: Whence and Whither for the AIDS History Group? |
| Victoria Harden and Caroline Hannaway, chairs |
| Victoria Harden, Caroline Hannaway, William Helfand, and Guenter B. Risse, panelists |
| Medicine in New Jersey—An Historical View |
| Allen B. Weisse, chair |
| Allen B. Weisse and Donald F. Kent, panelists |
Concurrent Sessions
| Session 6: | Medical Women, Regina Morantz-Sanchez, presiding |
| Four Middle-aged Matrons with M.D.s: The First Graduating Class of the New England Female Medical College, 1854 |
| Martha Gardner |
| Kadambini Ganguli (1861–1923): Pioneer Woman Physician and Activist |
| Ranes C. Chakravorty |
| The Formation of the Women’s Medical Service and the Structure of Allopathic Medical Provision in Colonial India |
| Maneesha Lal |
| Women and the Survival of Homeopathy as a Twentieth-Century Medical Alternative, 1921–1930 |
| Anne Taylor Kirschmann |
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| Session 7: | Malaria and the Movies, Mary J. Dobson, presiding |
| Rolling Back Malaria on Film |
| Maureen Malowany, Margaret Humphreys, Helen Power, and Ulf Schmidt, discussants |
| Session 8: | Disease and Stigma, Alan M. Kraut, presiding |
| The Foul Disease and Privacy: An Examination of Disease Stigma in Early Modern London |
| Kevin P. Siena |
| Sanatorium Treatment, Chest Surgery, and the Stigma of Tuberculosis: Patient Experience in Britain and Germany during the Early Twentieth Century |
| Flurin Condrau |
| Public Policy and the AIDS Stigma in Zimbabwe |
| Samuel H. Nelson |
| From Changelings to Extraterrestrials: Stigmatizing Metaphors and the “Otherness” of Autistic Behavior |
| William R. Albury |
| Session 9: | The Medical Profession, Law, and Ethics,Barron Lerner, presiding |
| Medicine and the Law in Late Imperial China |
| Yuan-ling Chao |
| Ethics Versus Science: The Impact of 1880s Anti-Ethics Insurrection on the American... |
American Association for the History of Medicine: Report of the Seventy-second Annual Meeting
