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The 2007 meeting will take place March 2 - 3, 2007, in Charlottesville, Virginia,
hosted by
the University of Virginia School of Nursing's Center for Nursing Historical
Inquiry and Claude Moore Health Sciences Library Historical Collections.
Program:
FRIDAY, March 2:
11:00 am - 1:00 pm Registration -- McLeod Hall School of Nursing Lobby
1:00-1:20 Welcome Remarks -- McLeod Hall Auditorium
1:20 - 2:00 Robert S. Gibson MD: "Jefferson's Prescient Vision
for Academic Medicine" -- McLeod Hall Auditorium
2:15- 3:30 Sessions 1 (3 panels):
Session 1A: Three Nurses Commemorated on Postage Stamps - McLeod Hall
Room 2007
Presider: L. Margaret Barnett
L. Margaret Barnett, PhD (University of Southern Mississippi), "Mary
Seacole"
Deanne Nuwer, PhD (University of Southern Mississippi) "Clara Maass"
Barbara Maling, RN, doctoral student (University of Virginia), "Soaring
Beyond Conventional Modesty: Chronicles of Phoebe Yates Pember During the American
Civil War, 1861-1865"
Session 1B: Late Medieval and Early Modern Medical Theories - McLeod
Hall Room 5044
Presider: Charles Bender, MD (University of Pittsburg)
Kristy McDonald, MD (Medical College of Georgia), "The Wound Man:
A Pictorial Demonstration of the Advancement of Medicine, Art, and the Printed
Word in the Medieval Era"
Wendy J. Turner, PhD (Augusta State University), "Medieval and Early
Modern Licensing of Alchemists and Medical Practitioners"
Yvonne Petry, PhD (University of Regina), "Unicorn Horns and Mandrake:
The Medicinal Preparations of a Seventeenth-Century French Apothecary"
Session 1C: Vaccines and Care for Tuberculosis Patients- McLeod Hall
Rm 2014
Presider: Susan A. Hagedorn, PhD (Virginia Tech)
Niels Brimnes, PhD (University of Aarhus-Denmark), "The Troubled
Life of the BCG-Vaccine, 1945-82"
Christian W. McMillen, PhD (University of Virginia), "Global TB
conrol, 1930-1960; The BCG Vaccine in Native America and South India"
Cynthia Connolly, PhD, RN (Yale University), "'Undeveloped and Undernourished':
Children at the Charlottesville, Virginia Blue Ridge Sanatorium, 1920-1945"
3:30 - 3:45 Break (soft drinks) compliments of Beta kappa Chapter, Sigma Theta
Tau International Honor Society for Nurses -- McLeod Hall Lobby
3:45-4:45 - Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating UVA's Women Physicians - McLeod Hall Auditorium
Moderator: Robert M. Carey, MD
Vivian Pinn, MD; Karen Rheuban, MD; Diane Snustad, MD
5:00- 5:45 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Jordan Hall Auditorium
Vivian Pinn MD, Director, Office of Research on Women's Health, National
Institutes of Health.
5:45 - Reception and Exhibit Opening - Health Sciences Library
Exhibit: "Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America's Women Physicians."
Sponsor: The National Library of Medicine and the American Library Association.
6:45- 7:00- Walk to dinner in the Rotunda
7:00- 9:45- Dinner - The Rotunda.
SATURDAY, March 3:
8:00- 9:00- Continental Breakfast. McLeod Hall Room 5044
Sponsored by the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, Humanities in Medicine and UVA Women's Center
SAHMS Board members -- Breakfast meeting in the Center for Nursing Historical
Inquiry, McLeod Hall room 3008.
9:00 - 10:00 - Session 2 (3 panels):
IIA: Early 20th-century concerns with Pregnancy, McLeod Hall 1003
Presider: Susan A. Hagedorn, PhD (Virginia Tech)
Kirsten E. Gardner, PhD (UTSA), "Desires to Deliver"
Nena Patterson, RN, doctoral student (James Madison University), "'Caring
for the Suitcase Wives': Public Health Nurses and the Emergency Maternal &
Infant Care Program, 1943-1947"
IIB. Faith-Based Health Care Facilities in the 19th and 20th centuries,
McLeod Hall 1004
Presider: Joy Buck (University of Pennsylvania)
Lisa M. Zerull, MS, RN, doctoral student (University of Virginia), "Nursing
Out of the Parish: The Lutheran Deaconess History in America 1849-1900"
Anne Z. Cockerham, CNM, MSN, doctoral student (University of Virginia),
"The Nurse-Midwife-Sisters' Medical Mission at the Catholic Maternity Institute"
IIC: Pellagra and Poverty in the American South, McLeod Hall 1006
Presider: L. Margaret Barnett (University of Southern Mississippi)
Mary E. Gibson, MSN, doctoral student (University of Pennsylvania), "Child
Health in the Early-20th-Century South 1900-1925: Barefoot & Hungry"
Michael A. Flannery, MA (University of Alabama at Birmingham), "Pellagra,
Politics, Poverty, and Medicine in the South: An Alabama Postscript"
10:00 - 10:30 Break (water/juice) Compliments of the Center for Nursing Historical
Inquiry -- McLeod Hall Lobby
10:30 - 12:00 Session 3 (3 panels):
3 A. The Expanding Role of Nurses in the 20th Century. McLeod Hall 1003
Presider: Richard Nollan (Universtity of Tennessee, Health Sciences Library)
Jennifer M. Casavant, RN, MSN, PhDc (University of Virginia), "'Nursing
Etiquette': The Working Relationship Between Physicians and Nurses During World
War I"
Gina Alexander, RN, doctoral student (University of Virginia), "Cross-Cultural
Experiences: Field Nursing among the 'Five Civilized Tribes,' 1917 to 1943"
John Kirchgessner, PhD (University of Virginia), "A Financial Reappraisal
of Nursing Services: A Case Study of the University of Virginia Hospital, 1945-1965"
3 B. Ancient Medicine: Chocolate, Breath, and Babies. McLeod Hall 1004
Presider: Wendy J. Turner (Augusta State University)
Patrick Macfarlane, doctoral student (Duquesne University), "Pneuma
and Disease in Ancient Greek Medical and Philosophical Texts"
Hui-hua Chang, PhD (Elon University), "Hippocratic Doctors-the Secular
Purifiers of Ancient Greece"
W. Jeffrey Hurst (Hershey Company Technical Center), "Medicinal
and Ethnobotanical Uses of Cacao in Ancient Mesoamerica"
3 C. Stereotypes and Misunderstandings versus Ethics, Information, and Education
-- McLeod Hall 1006
Presider: Michael A. Flannery (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Angie Lea Scott, medical & doctoral student (University of Texas)
"The Stories We Sell: An Ethical Critique of Direct-To-Consumer Drug Commercials"
Dionysios Kavalieratos, undergraduate student (University of Pittsburgh
Honors College), "Pharmacy Under
Fire: Historical Impediments to the Development of the Pharmacist-Patient Relationship"
Linda M. Hartman, MLS (University of Pittsburgh), ________
12:00 - 1:30 LUNCH - Sponsored by Dean Jeanette Lancaster, UVA School of Nursing.
McLeod Hall 5044
1:30- 3:00 - Session 4 (3 panels):
4 A. Clashes between Old World Thinking and New Era Medicine from the 19th
to the 20th century. McLeod Hall 1003
Presider: Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig (University of Florida)
Peggy Redshaw, PhD (Austin College), "Gideon Lincecum, Botanic Physician,
Columbus, MS and Long Point, TX"
Mary Duquin, PhD (University of Pittsburgh), "The Therapeutic Use
of Massage in 19th-Century America"
Todd L. Savitt, PhD (Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University),
"A Case of Abortion in 1900 Helena, Montana"
4 B. At the Bedside: The Ill and Those who Care. McLeod Hall 1004
Presider: Arlene W. Keeling (University of Virginia)
Paul Berman, MD (University of Massachusetts), "Mary Maud Brewster:
Co-Founder of the Henry Street Settlement-one of the 'two nurses who placed
emphasis upon the community value of their efforts as they sensed the future'"
Janna Dieckmann, PhD (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), "Health
Departments, Physicians, and Nurses in the coordinated Home Care Plans of Rural
North Carolina, 1955-1965"
Joy Buck, PhD (University of Pennsylvania), "'The Hospice Privateers':
Politics, Policy and the Translation of an Ideal"
4 C. Social Transformations through Regulation, Control, and Access to Medicine
and Science. McLeod Hall 1006
Presider: Richard Nollan (University of Tennessee, Health Sciences Library)
Kelly M. Leary, undergraduate student (Louisiana State University) [written
with Hector O. Ventura, MD (Louisiana State University)], "Science goes
Public: Henry Oldenburg and the Founding of Philosophical Transactions"
Todd James Bourque, MA, doctoral student (Louisiana State University),
"Birth of the Clinic/Birth of the Medic: The Medic Profession in Eighteenth-Century
North America"
Teodora Daniela Sechel, MA, doctoral student (Central European University),
"Plague and Social Disciplining in the Eighteenth Century: The Habsburg
Case"
3:00- 3:30 - Break (soft drinks) McLeod Hall Lobby
3:30- 5:00 - Session 5 (2 panels):
5 A. The Impact of the Medical Profession on the Public in the Early-Twentieth
Century. McLeod Hall 1003
Presider: Jonathon Erlen, PhD (University of Pittsburg)
Kaarin Michaelsen, PhD (University of North Carolina, Greensboro), "Torture
or Treatment?: British Physicians and the Politics of Forcible Feeding, 1909-1914"
James E. Higgins, doctoral student (Lehigh University), "Running
Its Course; Two Steel Communities During the Fall, 1918 Wave of Influenza and
the Impact of Human Responses"
Patricia J.F. Rosof, PhD, (Independent Scholar), "Florence R. Sabin
and the Changing Nature of Medical Research"
5 B. Diagnosis as Power in Pseudo-Science and at the Forefront of Medicine
from the 17th to the 19th centuries. McLeod Hall 1004
Presider: Robert Nesbit (Medical College of Georgia)
Kristen L. Toren, medical student (Emory University), "Metoposcopy
Redux"
Richard Eimas, Emeritus (University of Iowa), "Guillaume Dupuytren:
'The Napoleon of Surgery'"
Thomas G. Benedek, MD (University of Pittsburgh), "The Development
of the Culturing Bacteria from Blood"
5:00-5:30 Closing Session. McLeod Hall Auditorium
Dinner on your own.