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University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Program:
Room locations: Please note that the rooms listed on the schedule are on the ground and first floors of the Communicore building of the Health Science Center. The Communicore Building is the site of the Health Center Library (first floor) and is located on the north side of the complex, across from the Public Health & Health Profession, Nursing and Pharmacy Building. There will be directional signs posted from the main entrances of the Health Science Center.
Friday, February 29, 2008
8:00-9:00 Continental breakfast and registration Room CG-056
8:00-8:45 Executive Board Meeting #1 Room CG-041/42
9:00-10:30 Two Concurrent Sessions
1. Tireless Devotion & Bravery among Medical Personnel
Room CG-056
Chair: Richard Nolan, University of Tennessee
1a. "Splendid cooperation and almost perfect coordination": Physicians,
Nurses, the USPHS, and the American Red Cross during the Influenza Epidemic,
1918-1919
Arlene W. Keeling, University of Virginia
1b. A Flawed Investigation of an Unknown Disease: Human Experimentation and
the St. Louis Encephalitis Epidemic of 1933
Eric Jarvis, King's University College
1c. The Korean War and the Doctor's Draft
Eugene Ginchereau, University of Pittsburgh
2. Modern, Medieval, and Ancient understandings & treatments for Mental
Afflictions
Room CG-041/42
Chair: Michael A. Flannery, University of Alabama at Birmingham
2a. Medical Attempts at Mental Health in the Fourteenth-Century Medical Tract:
Royal ms. 12B xxv
Wendy J. Turner, Augusta State University
2b. Neuro-Psychiatry in the Hippocratic Cases
Bruce H. Kraut, University of Florida
10:30-10:45 Break Room CG-057
10:45-12:00 General Meeting and Elections (all members should be in attendance)
Room C1-4
12:00-1:15 lunch
Talk by C. Craig Tisher, MD, Dean Emeritus, speaking on the History of
Dialysis, University of Florida, College of Medicine, Sponsored by the College
of Medicine's Deans Office
Room C1-4
1:30-3:00 Two Concurrent Sessions
3. New Research & Contemporary Issues in the History of Medicine
Room CG-056
Chair: Gail Schneider Mitchell, University of Florida
3a. New Primary Resources for History of Medicine and Science-The EU Archives
at the University of Pittsburgh
Jonathon Erlen, University of Pittsburgh
3b. New Challenges in Dental Education
Richard W. Rubin, University of Pittsburgh
3c. A Scientific Approach to the Ethics of Animal Research: Insights from Neurological
Complexity
Jeffrey Philip Spike, Florida State University College of Medicine
4. Victorian Ideas of Health & Science
Room CG-022
Chair: Charlotte M. Porter, University of Florida
4a. William Gull on Diabetes Mellitus: A Victorian Diet for Health
Elizabeth Lane Furdell, University of North Florida
4b. "That which is above is like to that which is below": The Persistence
of the Hermetic Tradition in Medicine and Science
Michael A. Flannery, University of Alabama at Birmingham
4c. Dissecting the Created Life in Anna Seward's 1804 Biography of Dr. Erasmus
Darwin
Philip K. Wilson, Penn State College of Medicine
3:00-3:30 Break Room CG-057
3:30-5:00 Two Concurrent Sessions
5. Race & Privilege in Healthcare
Room CG-056
Chair: Steven Weiss, Augusta State University
5a. The Protestant Race: Geography and the 19th Century Ideal of Progress
Michal Meyer, University of Florida
5b. The "Deontological Orientation" of the New Negro Physician: The
Origins of the National Medical Association and the Black Medical Professionalism
Adam Biggs, University of Pennsylvania
5c. The Privilege of Insulin: Nursing care of children with diabetes, 1920-1930
Deborah Gleason-Morgan, University of Virginia
6. Governmental & Public responses to Health Crises
Room CG-022
Chair: Arlene W. Keeling, University of Virginia
6a. Hookworm, Sewage, and Public Health in Florida, 1900-1945
Bridget M. Bihm-Manuel, University of Florida
6b. Two Surges of Care for Crippled Children: The Framing of Disease Conditions
and Influences on Development of Care 1900-1935
Mary E. Gibson, University of Virginia
6c. Yellow Fever in Virginia: the Ben Franklin and the "Death Storm"
Richard Eimas, University of Iowa
6:00-9:00 Dinner: Mark Barrow, MD, PhD (member of first graduating
class, UF College of Medicine on early medical practices in Alachua County),
Matheson Historical Center and Museum, 413 E. University Avenue, Gainesville
Saturday, March 1, 2008
Room C1-4
8:00-8:45 Breakfast Sponsored by the University of Florida, College of Nursing
Executive Board meeting #2 and Committee meetingsCG-057
9:00-12:00 Tours of Paynes Prairie and Micanopy or Alachua County Medical
Society/Robb House. Tours will leave from the Health Science Center after Breakfast.
12:00-1:00 lunch
Keynote speaker- Betty Smocovitis, PhD- Quinine Fever: American Botanists
and the Cinchona Missions in Latin America, 1943-1945
Room: C1-4
1:30-3:00 Two Concurrent Sessions
7. The Stomach, Rhetoric, and the Idea of "Progress"
Room CG-056
Chair: Jay Malone, History of Science Society
7a. Images of Wellbeing in the Early Republic
Charlotte M. Porter, University of Florida
7b. Digest This: The Stomach as Philosopher in Nietzsche's Thought
Steven Weiss, Augusta State University
7c. The National Stomach c. 1790-1850: Abdominal Illness in the Early Nineteenth
Century
Ian Miller, University of Sheffield
8. Do No Harm
Room CG-041/42
Chair: Robert R. Nesbit, Medical College of Georgia
8a. To do no harm? Surgical Principles and Practice: The Guillotine Amputation
and Germ Theory
Mikaela I. Poling, West Virginia Wesleyan College
8b. The Hippocratic Oath Revisited by Enlightened Physicians
Antoinette Emch-Deriaz, University of Florida
3:00-3:30 Break Room CG-057
3:30-5:00 Two Concurrent Sessions
9. History of the Media's Favorite Medical Topics: Cancer, Tobacco, and STDs
Room CG-056
Chair: Charles Bender, Magee Women's Hospital, Pittsburgh
9a. Constructing Cervical Cancer
Lynne Wells Graziano, Georgia Institute of Technology
9b. Keeley Tobacco Cure or Chamomile Flowers: Tobacco Cessation in the 18th
and 19th Century
Aukje Kluge, Emory University
9c. VD Is for Everybody, or Is It?
Adina Joy Stone, University of Florida
10. Ancient Medical Concepts that still may have Application Today
Room CG-041/42
Chair: Wendy J. Turner, Augusta State University
10a. Drama & Healing, Ancient & Modern
Karelisa Hartingan, University of Florida
10b. Drunk Revelers and Comatose Patients: The origins and meaning of "Coma"
in Hippocratic Medicine
Konstantinos Kapparis, University of Florida
10c. Thessalus of Tralles and the De Virtutibus Herbarum: A New Look at an Unsolved
Problem
Chrysostomos Kostopoulos, University of Florida
5:15- 6:15 Reception - Founders Gallery, Academic Research Building, First floor