Next Session:
Dr. Jack Shull, Emeritus Professor of Human Genetics,
University of Texas
Health Science Center at Houston, will be speaking
on
"James V. Neel, Genetics, and the University of Michigan: The Early Years"
May 22 at 2 pm
Dow Auditorium, Towsley Center for Continuing
Medical Education
This event will inaugurate the annual James V. Neel Lectureship.
Please contact Tory Lacca at the PSM office 615-8620 for further information.
*Listed below are the past years events.
The History of Medicine and Health Colloquium is an interdisciplinary group of faculty and graduate/professional students with an interest in the cultural, social, technical or intellectual history of health, disease, the body, or the healing professions.
Faculty, graduate students, and professional
school students with research projects in progress related to the history
of medicine or health are strongly encouraged to propose presentations.
Please email me if you have a topic you would like to present. Suggestions
for outside speakers are also welcome. Martin S. Pernick Professor
of History Associate Director for Medical History, PSM (mpernick@umich.edu)
Seminars 1997 -1998
September 26*: Sharla Fett, Assistant
Professor of History, University of Arizona, and a recent visitor at UM.
"'Recaptured' African Women and US Southern
Physicians: A Mid-19th Century Medical Encounter in the Black Atlantic
World." Co-sponsored by Center for African American and African
Studies, and Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
September 29 (MONDAY, 4-6 PM): George S. Rousseau, Regius Professor of English and Director, Thomas Reid Institute, University of Aberdeen, Scotland. "Medical-Musical Interfaces: What Ever Happened to this Tradition?" Co-sponsored by Department of English and PSM Literature and Medicine Group.
October 31: Yi-Li Wu, Department of History,
Yale University, and visitor at UM.
"The Doctors of Jiangnan and Women's
Medicine in Late Imperial China"
November 21 1997: Peretz Hirshbein, John Hopkins University History of Medicine Department Visiting Lecturer in Inteflex medical Program. "Public Health Activist or company Man?: Louis I. Dublin, Tuberculosis Reform, and the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company"
January 23: Laura Davidow Hirshbein, UM
Medical School and Johns Hopkins Medical History Department.
"'Normal' Aging, 'Senile Degeneration,'
and the American Geriatrics Society in the 1940s."
February February 13*: Andrew Goble, Associate Professor of History, University of Oregon, and Visiting Associate Professor of History."A Late 16th Century Japanese Physician and His Patients" NOTE: Will be in 1603 HAVEN HALL (one floor above ground)
February 20: Peter Vinten-Johansen and colleagues, Department of History and Medical Humanities Program, Michigan State University."John Snow, Cholera Transmission, and the Shift from Dirt to Microbes in Mid-19th Century Public Health"
March 13, 1998: Jonathan Sadowsky, Assistant Professor of History, Program in the History of Technology, Science, and Medicine Case Western Reserve University. "’Symptoms’ of Colonialism: Patients and Problems in Southwest Nigeria’s Asylums in the Late Colonial Period"
March 20: Nancy Tomes, Professor of History,
SUNY Stony Brook
"The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and
the Microbe in American Life"
March 27*: Patrick Carroll, Science Studies,
University of California at San Diego.
"Medical Police and the Public Health"
NOTE: Will be in 1603 HAVEN HALL (one floor above ground)
April 24*: Alexandra Stern, Department
of History of Science, University of Chicago, and a recent fellow at UM
International Institute:
"Eugenics and Nationalism in Mexico,
The Post-Revolutionary Years."
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University of Michigan
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