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Augusta State University & The Medical College of Georgia
Program:
Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science
6th Annual Conference
Friday, February 27, 2004
The Cover Illustration is with special permission of the Department of Medical Illustration at The Medical College of Georgia. "Minicolumnar Pathology in Autism" by Brandon Pletsch. Class of 2003, Digital. Certificate of Merit, Editorial Illustration: Association of Medical Illustrators, 2002 & Certificate of Merit: 2002 UGA/MCG Student Scientific & Medical Illustration Exhibit.
Registration/Breakfast
Allgood Hall North Entrance & N130
8:00 - 9:00
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Welcoming Remarks
Allgood Hall N126
9:00 - 9:15
Maarten Ultee, PhD, SAHMS Vice-President
Robert Nesbit, Jr. MD, Local Arrangements Co-Chair
Ed Cashin, PhD, Director of Center for the Study of Georgia History
Wendy J. Turner, PhD, Local Arrangements Co-Chair
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Plenary Session I
Technology: Past, Present and Future
Allgood Hall N126
9:30 - 11:00
Chair: Maarten Ultee, PhD, University of Alabama
Debating the "Artificial" versus "Natural" in Replacing
the Diseased Heart: Technology, Transplantation and Organ Replacement in Medicine,
1964-1984
Shelley McKellar, PhD, University of Western Ontario
Medical Technology in the Home: Controlling Diabetes and Blood Glucose Monitoring
Kirsten Gardner, PhD, University of Texas at San Antonio
NanoFiction and Reinventing the Human: Fictional Representations of Nanotechnology
in Human Evolution
Susan A. Hagedorn, PhD, Virginia Tech
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Three Concurrent Sessions
11:00 - 12:00
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Session 1: Shifting Perceptions and Ideologies
Allgood Hall E157
Chair: Jonathon Erlen, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
Translator Bias and William Harvey's De Motu Cordis
E. Thomas McMullen, PhD, Georgia Southern University
Hegel's Philosophy of Medicine
Eric v.d. Luft, PhD, MLS, SUNY Upstate Medical University
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Session 2: Cultural Discourse of the Sick Body
Allgood Hall E151
Chair: Sylvia Rinker, PhD, RN, Lynchburg College
From the Gilded Age to the End of World War One: The Concept of "Cripple"
in the Early Twentieth Century
Mary E. Gibson, MSN, RN, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
Power and Pain: Southern Port Hospitals in Charleston and New Orleans, 1830-1880
Hyejung Grace Kong, MA, Indiana University
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Session 3: Eastern and Western Medicine
Allgood Hall N251
Chair: Robert Nesbit, Jr., MD, Medical College of Georgia
Perceived Differences: The Impact of Media and Medicines from China on Cartesian
Bodies in the Seventeenth Century
Robert K. Batchelor, PhD, Georgia Southern University
Learned Medical Scholars East and West: The Careers of Wang Kentang (1549-1613)
and Girolamo Cordano (1501-1576)
Yuan-ling Chao, PhD, Middle Tennessee State University
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Lunch
Allgood Hall Atrium
12:00 - 1:15
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Three Concurrent Sessions
1:30 - 2:30
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Session 4: Oral Histories of Patient Care in Mississippi
Allgood Hall E150
Chair: Wendy J. Turner, PhD, Augusta State University
Voices from the Past: Oral Histories of Mississippi Nurses
Jeanette Waits, MN, University of Mississippi School of Nursing
Minta Uzodinma, MN, CNM, Mississippi State Department of Health
Rebecca Boggan Fairchild, MSN, Hinds Community College
The Early Advancement of the Profession of Physical Therapy in Mississippi:
The Oral History Project
Ruth M. Burgess, PhD, PT, University of Mississippi Medical Center
Cynthia Kunkel Scott, PhD, PT, University of Mississippi Medical Center
W. T. Johnson, J. H. Pierce, S. L. Scruggs, A. L. Stegall, and L. D. Welch
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Session 5: Febrile Illness: Facts and Fiction
Allgood Hall E151
Chair: L. Margaret Barnett, PhD, University of Southern Mississippi
Man versus Microbe: The Accelerating Problem of Antibiotic Resistance
Gregory M. Anstead, PhD, MD, University of Texas Health Science Center at San
Antonio
That "Burnt Indian Drug": Imperial Motives in the Medicinal Use of
Tobacco in Robinson Crusoe
M. Casey Diana, PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Session 6: Science Old and New
Allgood Hall E251
Chair: Philip K. Wilson, PhD, Penn State College of Medicine
Slate or Sage? The Child in Ninetenth Century British Juvenile Science Literature
Cornelia Lambert, MA, University of South Carolina at Aiken
Surgery Before Hippocrates: Trepanation in the Old and New World
Gautam Deshpande, MA, Penn State College of Medicine
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Break
2:30 - 2:45
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Bus Leaves for the Morris Museum
2:45
The bus leaves for the museum and will meet us in the
parking area to the North-West of Allgood Hall
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Museum Session
3:00 - 5:00
The History of Medical Illustration
Steven J. Harrison, MS, CMI, Chairman, Medical College of Georgia Medical Illustration
Graduate Program
Exhibit: Medical Illustrations
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Bus to Partridge Inn
5:00
Dinner
The Home of Robert and Mary Gail Nesbit
2235 Walton Way
7:00 - 9:00
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2004
Registration/Breakfast
Allgood Hall North Entrance & N130
8:00 - 9:00
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Executive Council Meeting
Allgood Hall E220
8:00 - 9:00
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Keynote Address
Allgood Hall N126
9:00 - 10:00
Competence, Compassion and Professionalism: An Oslerian Perspective
Charles S. Bryan, MD, Heyward Gibbes Distinguished Professor of Medicine, University
of South Carolina School of Medicine
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Three Concurrent Sessions
10:00 - 11:30
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Session 7: Cultural Issues and Women's Sexuality
Allgood Hall E150
Chair: Konstantinos Kapparis, PhD, University of Florida
"It's Always the Patient's Choice": Reproductive Freedom, Sterilization
Abuse, and Women's Health in 1973
Gregory M. Dorr, PhD, University of Alabama
Birth Behind the Veil: African-American Midwives, Mothers, and Medical Professionals
in the Jim Crow South, 1921-1953
Kelena Reid Maxwell, MA, Rutgers University
"They Didn't Treat Me Good": The Role of Forensic Testimony in Rape
Trials in Chicago, 1950s-1960s
Dawn R. Flood, PhD, University of Wyoming
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Session 8: Eugenics, Heredity and the Body Politic
Allgood Hall E151
Chair: Jonathon Erlen, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
Did Differing Visions of Inheritance Lead to a Gentler, Kinder Eugenics?: Popular
Visions of Eugenics and Heredity
Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig, PhD, University of Florida
Eugenics and the Body Politic: A Poetic Vision
Erin Dunbar, MD, University of Florida, College of Medicine
Fighting Contagion?: Understanding Concepts of Infection, Heredity and the
Body Politic in the Twentieth Century
Mary Cassandra Hudson, AA, University of Florida
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Session 9: Twentieth-Century Health Issues
Allgood Hall E251
Chair: Richard Eimas, MLS, University of Iowa
Occupational Therapy at the Old TB Sanitorium
L. Margaret Drake, PhD, University of Mississippi Medical Center
National Co-operative Group Clinical Trials in Childhood Cancers: An Historical
Perspective 1950-2003
Robin L. Rohrer, PhD, Seton Hill University
Probing the "Politics of Mercy" in Los Angeles and Houston: Episodes
in the History of the Urban Health Care Safety Net
Jeffrey S. Brown, PhD, University of New Brunswick
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Lunch
Allgood Hall Atrium
11:30 - 1:00
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Poster Session
Allgood Hall Atrium
11:30 - 1:00
Chemical Warfare Revisited: Lessons From Nursing in World War 1
Jennifer M. Casavant, RN, MSN, ACNP, University of Virginia School of Nursing
Hey, It's the Ritalin Man!: Using Trademarks, Labels and Characters to Sell
Health Care
Randall Clark, PhD, North Georgia College and State University
Physical Therapy and Older Adults: International Perspectives
Neva F. Greenwald, MSPH, University of Mississippi Medical Center
"The Nurses Came to Take Care of the People": The Role of the Midwife
in the Frontier
Nursing Service c. 1920-1940s
Nancy Jallo, RNC, MSN, CS FNP, University of Virginia
"There's Never Enough Help": A History of Nursing Shortages 1940-1990
Deirdre Thornlow, MN, RN, University of Virginia School of Nursing
Nursing Care of Breast Cancer Patients in the 1950s
Jennifer Trautmann, FNP-BC, RN, University of Virginia School of Nursing
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Two Concurrent Sessions
1:00 - 2:30
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Session 10: Care versus Cure
Allgood Hall E150
Chair: Robert Nesbit, Jr., MD, Medical College of Georgia
Combining Care and Cure: Nurses' Work in Dispensing, Furnishing and Prescribing
Medications in the United States in the Twentieth Century
Arlene W. Keeling, PhD, RN, University of Virginia, Center for Nursing Historical
Inquiry
The Uses of Heresy: Medical Thought and Professional Ideals in the Writings
of Mid-Nineteenth Century Homeopathic Physicians
Moshe Mark E. Usadi, MD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Alchemical, Surgical and Dietary Treatments of the Mental and Physical
Collapse of King Henry VI of England
Wendy J. Turner, PhD, Augusta State University
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Session 11: International Perspectives on Medicine
Allgood Hall E151
Chair: Lois Monteiro, PhD, Brown University
10,000 Miles and 25 Years: The Journey of the Association of Pakistani Physicians
of North America
Barbara L. Floyd, MPA, MA, University of Toledo
Birthing an Empire: Colonialist Notions of Infertility in Nineteenth-Century
Rio de Janeiro
Suzanne Michele Schadl, PhD, Roanoke College
John Evelyn's Anatomical Tables: Circulation, Collections and the Early Royal
Society
Craig A. Hanson, MA, University of Chicago
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Break
Allgood Hall Atrium
2:30 - 3:00
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Plenary Session II
Allgood Hall N126
3:00 - 4:00
Chair: Kim Pelis, PhD, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
"Like Yellow Caskets, They Lined the Halls ....": The Iron Lung and
the Polio Epidemics, 1928-1955
Lynne M. Dunphy, PhD, FNP, Florida Atlantic University
Historical Perspectives on Medical Futility
Eric A. Singer, MD, University of Rochester Medical Center
Hands Across the Waters: Conception and Birth of the Modern Hospice Movement
K. Joy Buck, MSN, RN, University of Virginia
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Conference Adjourns
Reception following
Maxwell Alumni House
4:30 - 5:30
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We would like to acknowledge the support of:
The Medical College of Georgia
The Center for the Study of Georgia History
Augusta State University
The Office of University Advancement, ASU
The Office of Public Relations, ASU
Mary Gail Nesbit