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Augusta State University & The Medical College of Georgia
Program:
Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science
Seventh Annual Meeting - February 25-26, 2005
Cover photo courtesy of the University of Virginia - Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry
Friday, February 25, 2005
Registration/Breakfast
Allgood Hall N130
8:00 - 8:45a.m.
Welcoming Remarks
Allgood Hall N126
8:45 - 9:00 a.m.
Maarten Ultee, PhD, President SAHMS
William Bloodworth, PhD, President Augusta State University
Robert R. Nesbit, Jr., MD, Medical College of Georgia
Ed Cashin, PhD, Director of Center for the Study of Georgia History
Wendy J. Turner, PhD, Local Arrangements Co-Chair
Two Concurrent Sessions
9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Session 1: Yellow Fever and Medical Progress
Allgood Hall E150
Chair: Maarten Ultee, PhD, University of Alabama
Revisiting Charleston's Eighteenth-Century Yellow Fever Epidemics
Peter McCandless, PhD, College of Charleston
Judging Carlos Finlay's Imperfect Science
John Lawrence Tone, PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology
Charles McBurney, 1845-1913
Robert R. Nesbit, Jr., MD, Medical College of Georgia
Session 2: Doctor/Patient Relationship
Allgood Hall E156
Chair: Gregory M. Dorr, PhD, University of Alabama
What Went Wrong? Factors Leading to the Decline in the Doctor/Patient Relationship
Jonathon Erlen, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
Nomenclature as the Legitimation of Complaint: the Terminological History of
Fibromyalgia
Eric v.d. Luft, PhD, and Diane Davis Luft, MLS, SUNY Upstate Medical University
Osler's Aequanimatas in Twenty-first Century Medical Professionalism
Naveen Pemmaraju, BS, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Break
Beverages available
Allgood Hall N130 10:00 - 10:15 a.m.
Three Concurrent Sessions
10:15 - 11:15 a.m.
Session 3: Nursing
Allgood Hall E156
Chair: Susan Rimby, PhD, Shippensburg University
"Nurses at the Front": American Red Cross Nurses in World War One
Jennifer M. Casavant, MSN, ACNP-BC, University of Virginia School of Nursing
Practicing Medicine Without a License?: Nurse Anesthetists 1900-1945
Arlene W. Keeling, RN, PhD, University of Virginia, Center for Nursing Historical
Inquiry
American Elder Long-Term Care: How We Got to Where We Are
Beth A. D. Nolan, PhD, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Session 4: Pre-Modern Britain and Ireland
Allgood Hall E158
Chair: Michael A. Flannery, MA, MSLS, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Health of Ancient Celts: Evidence from the Bog Mummies
Brandice Schofe, BA, Augusta State University
Early Medieval Treatment of Doctors and their Mentally Ill Patients in Ireland
Wendy J. Turner, PhD, Augusta State University
The Untimely Death of Barton Booth: Mercury, Medicine and Enlightenment
Michael Egan, PhD, Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry
Session 5: Public Health
Allgood Hall E260
Chair: Margaret Barnett, PhD, University of Southern Mississippi
The Newspaper and the Mosquito in Florida: Public Health Education, 1898-1905
James D. Alsop, PhD, McMaster University
Georgia's Magic Mountains
Colleen S. Kraft, MD, and Michael K. Leonard, MD, Emory University
The Smallest Victims of the "White Plague": Non-pulmonary Tuberculosis
in Children at the Turn of the Twentieth-Century
Mary E. Gibson, MSN, University of Pennsylvania
Break 11:15 - 11:30 a.m.
Bus Leaves for the Medical College of Georgia
11:30 a.m.
(Box lunches)
Keynote Address
Noon to 1:00 p.m.
Medical College of Georgia Auditoria Center
Large Auditorium - BC 141
"From Osler to Insulin: The Coming of the Age of Medical Miracles"
Professor Michael Bliss, C.M., PhD., F.R.S.C.
University Professor, University of Toronto
Tour
1:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Augusta Canal Interpretive Center
Augusta Museum of History
Museum Session
4:15 to 5:00 p.m.
"Creating Atomic Spaces in Dixie: The Impact of the
Savannah River Nuclear Site in the 1950's"
Kari Frederickson, PhD.
Associate Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies
University of Alabama
Bus to Partridge Inn
5:00 p.m.
Dinner
7 to 9 p.m.
The Home of Bob and Mary Gail Nesbit
2235 Walton Way
Saturday, February 26, 2005
Registration/Breakfast
Allgood Hall N130
8:30 - 9:30 a.m.
Executive Council Meeting
Allgood Hall E222, History Conference Room
8:30 - 9:20 a.m.
Two Concurrent Sessions 9:30 - 10:30 a.m.
Session 6: Literature and Medicine
Allgood Hall E150
Chair: Charles Bender, MD, University of Pittsburgh
Medicine, Androgyny and Race
Patrick Warren, BA, University of Nevada-Reno
Popular Science: Literary Medical Knowledge and the 1850s Athenaeum
Meegan Kennedy, PhD, Florida State University
The Homeopathic Interview in William Faulkner's The Sound and The Fury
Geri Harmon, MA, Atlanta Metropolitan College
Session 7: Diet, Disease and Drugs
Allgood Hall E151
Chair: L. Margaret Drake, PhD, University of Mississippi Medical Center
"Mad Dogs and Englishmen": Representations of Mad Cow Disease in
U.S. and British Newspapers
Peter Washer, PhD, University College London
The Science and Politics of Drug Abuse Liability Assessment:
An Historical Perspective
Joseph Spillane, PhD, University of Florida
Break
Beverages available
Allgood Hall N130 10:30 - 10:45 a.m.
Two Concurrent Sessions
10:45 - Noon
Session 8: Irregular Medicine
Allgood Hall E251
Chair: Richard Siderits, MD, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
"Popular Medicine" and Urinary Incontinence: The Longue Duree
Barbara B. Phillips, DNSC, Florida Atlantic University
"Let Him Who Doubts It, Try It!": Homeopathic Treatment of Scarlet
Fever in the 19th Century
Moshe Mark E. Usadi, MD, ABD, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
A Quantitative Profile of the Patent Medicine Industry in San Francisco, 1885-1930
Michael Torbenson, MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Jonathon Erlen, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
Session 9: Ancient
Allgood Hall E252
Chair: Florence Eliza Glaze, PhD, Coastal Carolina University
Ctesias of Cnidos: Historian and Scientist
Andrew G. Nichols, MA, University of Florida
Doctors as Expert Witnesses in Ancient Courts
Konstantinos Kapparis, PhD, University of Florida
The Surgeon and Society in Ancient India
Ranes Chakravorty, MD, University of Virginia
Lunch
Allgood Hall Atrium Noon - 1:30 p.m.
Two Concurrent Sessions
1:30 - 2:30 p.m.
Session 10: Renaissance
Allgood Hall E150
Chair: Wendy J. Turner, PhD, Augusta State University
Bewitchment in the History of Early Modern Medicine
Yvonne Petry, PhD, University of Regina
The Puritan Paradigm in American Medical Ethics: From Cotton Mather to Worthington
Hooker to Richard Cabot
Chester R. Burns, MS, PhD, University of Texas Medical Branch
Ethical Concerns in the 16th-century Doctor/Patient Relationship
Thomas G. Benedek, MD, University of Pittsburgh
Section 11: Emergence of Modern Treatments
Allgood Hall E151
Chair: Timothy L. Pennycuff, MLS, University of Alabama at Birmingham
"Slash, Poison, and Burn" 1890 - 2000: Is Breast Cancer Curable?
Adam Townes, University of Alabama
Maarten Ultee, PhD, University of Alabama
From Societal Scourge to Phil the Sore: Transformation of the Depiction of
Syphilis
Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig, PhD, University of Florida
"The Futile Hunt for the Nobel Prize" Raymond P. Ahlquist and his
Receptor Theory
Cay-Ruediger Pruell, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg
Break 2:30 - 2:45 p.m.
Plenary Session Allgood Hall N126
2:45 - 4:00 p.m.
Chair: Jay Malone, PhD, History of Science Society
The President, the Doctor and the Building of the Panama Canal
Hector O. Ventura, MD, Ochsner Clinic Foundation
Southern Insane Asylum Superintendents: A Look at their Medical Training and
Thought
Meredith Wynne Johnston, MA, University of Mississippi
Anti-Science and Anti-Scientism in Fin-de-Siecle French Medical Discourse
Martha L. Hildreth, PhD, University of Nevada
SAHMS Business Meeting
Allgood Hall N126
4 p.m.
Conference Adjourns
Reception Following
Maxwell Alumni House
4:30-5:30 p.m.
This meeting was supported by the following:
The School of Medicine, The Medical College of Georgia
Augusta State University
The Office of Public Relations, ASU
The Center for the Study of Georgia History
The Department of History, Anthropology, and Philosophy at ASU
The ASU Foundation
Mary Gail Nesbit
