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University of Texas at San Antonio
Program:
Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science
8th Annual Conference
SAHMS Program
San Antonio - February 24-25, 2006
Friday, February 24
Registration/Breakfast
Room/location
8:00 - 8:45 a.m.
Opening Remarks
Room
8:45 - 9:00 a.m.
Maarten Ultee, PhD, President, SAHMS
Welcome - Jack Reynolds, PhD, History Dept. Chair, UTSA
Two Concurrent Sessions
9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Session 1
Epidemics and Pandemics
Moderator: Margaret Drake, PhD, University of Mississippi Medical Center
"Revolutionary Fever: Disease and War in the Lower South, 1776-1783"
Peter McCandless, PhD
College of Charleston
"Domestic Incorporation? The Work of Gender in the Texas-Mexican Yellow
Fever Epidemic of 1882"
John McKiernan-González, PhD
University of Texas at Austin
"A Benign Winter Cattarrh: The Parisian Press and Pandemic Influenza,
1889-1890"
Mari L. Nicholson-Preuss, PhD Candidate (ABD)
University of Houston
Session 2
Medicine in the 18th Century
Moderator: Stefanie Rookis, MA, University of Alabama at Birmingham
"The Lunar Society and the Discovery of Digitalis"
Hector O. Ventura, MD and Lindsey Buchtel
Ochsner Institute
""José de Masdevall's Médicamens: Practical Medicine
and Propaganda in Spanish Louisiana"
Todd James Bourque, MA student
University of Louisiana
"The Influence of John Locke's Medical Thought on His Philosophy: A Comparison
of Three Medical Excerpts and the Essay Concerning Human Understanding"
David A. E. Shephard, MD
Independent Scholar, Winterville, NC
Break
10:30 - 10:45 a.m.
Two Concurrent Sessions
10:45 - 12:15 p.m.
Session 3
Classical and Early European Medicine to 1600
Moderator: Wendy Turner, PhD, Augusta State University
"The Wound Man: A Pictorial Demonstration of the Advancement of Medicine,
Art and the Printed Word in the Medieval Era"
Kristy McDonald, Senior Medical Student
Medical College of Georgia
"Physicians and Demon Possession in Early Modern France: The Case of Marthe
Brossier"
Yvonne Petry, PhD
Luther College
Session 4
Health and Medicine Among Indigenous Peoples
Moderator: Margaret Barnett, PhD, University of Southern Mississippi
"A Changing Landscape in the Medical Geography of 'Hereditary' Disease:
Syphilis, Leprosy, and Tuberculosis in 19th-Century Hawaii"
Philip K. Wilson, PhD
Penn State College of Medicine
"Discovery Disease and Dawes: The Bicultural Impact of European Imperialism
on North American Harmony and Health Care"
Krisann Muskievicz, MA, PhD student
University of Texas Medical Branch - Galveston
"Nursing Among the Navajo Indians, 1924-1955: A Story of Cultural Sensitivity
and Cooperation"
Arlene Keeling, RN, PhD
The University of Virginia
Lunch
12:15 - 1:30 p.m.
Two Concurrent Sessions
1:30-3:00
Session 5
Women and Health-Related Professions
Moderator: Stefanie Rookis, MA, University of Alabama at Birmingham
"Occupational Therapy's Roots in Nursing"
Margaret Drake, PhD
University of Mississippi Medical Center
"Explaining Success: The Career of Dr. Florence Rena Sabin"
Patricia J. F. Rosof, PhD
Independent Scholar, New York
"The Portrayal of Women Physicians in Museum Exhibits: The Elizabeth Blackwell
Bookcase"
Judy M. Chelnick, MA
Smithsonian Institution
Session 6
Medical Institutions
Moderator: Michael A. Flannery, MA, MLS, University of Alabama at Birmingham
" 'Is Your Heart With the Hospital?': Newark Beth Israel and the Survival
of the Jewish Hospital in Twentieth-Century Urban America"
Alan M. Kraut, PhD, and Deborah A. Kraut, MILR, MEd
American University
"Hospitals for Southern Rural Communities: The Commonwealth Fund and Experimental
Origins of Community Organizing"
Al Lyons, PhD student
Indiana University
"Building Utopia in North Central Florida: The University of Florida Health
Science Center"
Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig, MA
University of Florida College of Medicine
Break
3:00 - 3:15 a.m.
Two Concurrent Sessions
3:15 - 4:45 p.m.
Session 7
Historical Topics on Surgeons and Surgery
Moderator: Maarten Ultee, PhD, University of Alabama
"Did J. Marion Sims Deliberately Addict His First Fistula Patients to Opium?"
L. Lewis Wall, MD, PhD
Washington University School of Medicine
"Psychosurgery: Surgical Modification of the Personality"
Richard Eimas, MA
University of Iowa (Emeritus)
"The Evolution of Techniques of Venous Interruption for the Prevention
of Pulmonary Emboli"
Robert R. Nesbit Jr., MD and J. Eduardo Corso, MD
Medical College of Georgia
Session 8
Public Health Issues in History
Moderator: Margaret Barnett, PhD, University of Southern Mississippi
"The Development of Public Health Services in Yucatan, Mexico, 1891-1943"
David Sowell, PhD
Juniata College
"Protecting Our Children from AIDS: Efforts in AIDS Prevention Among Children
and Adolescents in North Carolina, 1981 - 1997"
Stephen J. Inrig, PhD candidate
Duke University
"Closing the Social Gap: Sabin Oral Sundays in Arizona, 1962"
Angela Matysiak, PhD
Independent Scholar
Speaker and Dinner
Pre-dinner speaker, Rebecca Herzig, PhD,
"Suffering, Liberation, and Histories of Medicine"
5:00 - 6:00
Meet & Greet Reception
6:00 - 6:30
Dinner
6:30 - 8:30
Saturday, February 25
Registration/Breakfast
Room/location
8:00 - 9:00 a.m.
Executive Council Meeting
8:30 - 9:00 a.m.
Two Concurrent Sessions
9:00 - 10:30
Session 9
Children and Health Care
Moderator: Lynn Dunphy, Florida Atlantic University
" 'Crippled Utopia': The Heritage Craft Schools and Hospitals for Crippled
Children at Chailey, Sussex, 1903-1948"
Lisa J. Pruitt, PhD
Middle Tennessee State University
"Caring for Baby: Infant Health in New York City, 1945-1965"
Hilary C. Aquino, PhD
Franklin and Marshall College
" 'Crippled Ones Have New Hope': The Advent of Public Care for Poor Children
with Disabilities in New York State"
Mary E. Gibson, RN, PhD student
University of Pennsylvania
Session 10
Disease, Care, and the Health Care Profession: The African-American Experience
Moderator: Michael A. Flannery, MA, MLS, University of Alabama at Birmingham
"Death on the Rio Grande"
Margaret Humphreys, PhD
Duke University
"Health Care Reconsidered: Forging Community Wellness among African Americans
in the South"
Jennifer A. Nelson, PhD
University of Redlands
"A Solitary Act in the Biochemistry Department: Striking a Blow for Racial
Desegregation at the Duke University School of Medicine"
Edward C. Halperin, MD
Duke University
Break
10:30 - 10:45
Two Concurrent Sessions
10:45 - 12:15
Session 11
Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Issues in Medicine and Health Care
Moderator: Julie K. Brown, PhD, Research Associate, Smithsonian Institution
"Patient-Surgeon Relationships and Treatment Decisions: Who Chooses? Who
Decides?"
Maarten Ultee, PhD
University of Alabama
"Magic Bullets and Superbugs: MRSA and the End of the Golden Age of Medicine"
Peter Washer, PhD
Royal Free & University College London Medical School
"International Medical Graduates and US Health Care: A Win/Win or Uneasy
Détente"
Kayhan Parsi, JD, PhD
Loyola University Chicago
Session 12
Nutrition in Medicine and Health Care
Moderator: Michael A. Flannery, MA, MLS, University of Alabama at Birmingham
"Solar Ultraviolet Radiation and Vitamin D: A Historical Perspective"
Kumaravel Rajakumar, MD
University of Pittsburgh
" 'Famine and Plague': Mississippi's Efforts to Eradicate Pellagra"
Deanne Nuwer, PhD
University of Southern Mississippi
"Playing for Good: Analogies of Sport and Work in Nutritional Studies
from the Antebellum U.S. to Nazi Germany"
Jennifer K. Alexander, PhD
University of Minnesota
Luncheon Panel
12:15 - 1:45
Horticulture and Diet: Paths to Health and Knowledge
Moderator: Julie K. Brown, PhD, Research Associate Smithsonian Institution
"Eating and Health: Nutrition and Diabetes from a Historical Perspective"
Kirsten Gardner, PhD
University of Texas at San Antonio
"Commonly Used Plants in the Treatment of Diabetes: Traditional Healers
at Work in San Antonio, Texas"
Elizabeth De La Portilla, PhD
University of Texas at San Antonio
"A Historical View of Mexican Horticulture: Stereotypes, Disconnections,
and Reconnections"
José Macias, PhD
University of Texas at San Antonio
Two Concurrent Sessions
1:45 - 2:45
Session 13
Patients or People: Medical Ethics in Social and Sociological Contexts
Moderator: Wendy Turner, PhD, Augusta State University
"Humanizing the Biomedical Model and the Quality-of-Care Crisis"
James A. Marcum, PhD and Michael Attas, MD
Baylor University
"Driving Miss Daisy: Negotiating Difference"
Suzanne England, PhD and Carol Tosone, PhD
New York University
Session 14
Historical Aspects of Alternative Medicine
Moderator: Michael A. Flannery, MA, MLS, University of Alabama at Birmingham
"Ayurveda - A Synopsis"
Ranes Chakravorty, MD
University of Virginia (retired)
"An Oasis of Health Swimming in Symbolism: The Rhetoric of Hydropathy"
Julie Kutac, PhD student
University of Texas Medical Branch - Galveston
Break
2:45 - 3:00
Closing Session
3:00 - 4:30
Session 15
Public Health Issues in the 20th Century
Moderator: Robert R. Nesbit Jr., MD, Medical College of Georgia
"Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Influence on the Health of Americans (1933-1945)"
Amanda Walters Scarbrough, PhD student
The University of Houston
"Brucellosis: From Obscure Border Disease to 'the most important health
problem" and the Back Again"
Gregory Anstead, MD, PhD
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
"Outbreaks in Unexpected Places: St. Louis Encephalitis Epidemics in the
High Plains and the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas During the 1950s"
Eric Jarvis, PhD
The University of Western Ontario
General Business Meeting
4:30 - 5:00
Meeting and 2006 Conference Adjourned
Farewell Reception
5:00 - 6:00
Room TBA