Calendar

UPCOMING EVENTS

American Association for the History of Nursing Fifteenth Annual Conference September 25-27, 1998, Jackson, Mississippi. The American Association for the History of Nursing and the University of Mississippi School of Nursing are co-sponsoring this annual conference that provides a forum for sharing historical research on nursing. The conference will include paper and poster presentations as well as other opportunities for learning and sharing historical interests. For further information contact: Dr Anne Peirce 601-984-6220 Jackson Visitors Bureau. The program and registration information will be placed on the wonderful AAHN website in June: http://users.aol.com/NsgHistory/Conf.html.

Delaware Valley Archivists Group (DVAG) will hold its next meeting on April 22, 1998 at the Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center.

20th Anniversary Meeting of the International Association for Human Caring. COMMUNICATING CARING The Essence of Nursing.
April 26-28. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The conference celebrates the history of the IAHC with presentations by charter members of the organization. Also, the conference emphasizes outcomes of caring in practice, the experience of teaching caring to staff nurses and nursing students, and the meta-synthesis of research studies in caring, as well as conceptual papers, aesthetic projects or other expressions of caring. A session on Historical Perspectives of Care/Caring features a presentation by Janna Dieckmann entitled Nursing Association and Advocacy for Long Term Care in the 1950's. For information please call 610-847-5396. Website http://www.lasalle.edu/academ/grad/nursing/iahc.

Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference 1998 May 7-9, 1998, Saratoga Springs, New York. Many informative programs and workshops are planned. A full day will be concentrated on "Preserving Photographs in a Digital World" instructed by Franziska Frey, Imaging Scientist, Rochester Institute of Technology/Image Permanence. Another workshop of interest is "Researching Neighborhoods: Instruction Through Primary Historical Materials." This talk will focus on how the Urban Archives staff at Temple University uses the various historical formats to teach elementary and high school students how to do research. Because Philadelphia is known as a city of neighborhoods, the speaker will specifically discuss how to use the following to research a neighborhood: 1) historical maps to trace a neighborhood and city directories to see if students can find who had been living in their home; 3) pamphlets that can provide information about organizations, specific neighborhoods, demographics, etc.; 4) news clippings; 5) manuscripts; 6) photographs; and 7) audio tapes. Temple has worked with public school teachers and developed a working outline and packet for the teachers to use in instructing their students on how to research their neighborhood using all of the above formats. The packet includes histories and a list of local repositories to visit for additional information. A slide presentation will accompany the talk. Presenter: Margaret Jerrido. For more information, contact Program Committee Chair: Robert Morris, NARA-Northeast Region, 212-337-1303, robert.morris@newyork.nara.gov.

American Association for the History of Medicine May 7-10, 1998, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. What promises to be a splendid meeting includes sessions on various topics such as "Health and the Other America" featuring Barbara Brodie’s study on "Long Time Misery among Us": The Eradication of Trachoma in the Appalachian Counties of Kentucky, 1910-1930, "Masculinities and Medicine" where Elizabeth Toon and Janet Golden will present I Can Make You a New Man: The Health Advice of Charles Atlas and "Fashioning Medical Personas" chaired by Joan E. Lynaugh, in which Steven J. Peitzman will share his research on Medical and Collegiate: Student Life in the Golden Age of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. A highlight of the meeting is the Fielding H. Garrison Lecture: Taking a History: The Life of Dr. Virginia Alexander by Vanessa Northington Gamble followed by a reception at the Royal Ontario Museum. A combined exhibit of antiquarian books and recent publications in the history of medicine will be located in the City Hall Room for the participants if they have time to peruse it. Please contact the local arrangements committee for more information at 416-282-9250, fax 416-282-3738; lac98@sympatico.ca. Website http://www.yorku.ca/org/aahm.

New York Academy of Medicine, Section on Historical Medicine, Public Lecture Series May 20, The Galdston Lecture: Professor Charles Rosenberg, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, On the Boundary of Transgression: F.C. Hollick and His Best Selling Counsel on Marriage. The New York Academy of Medicine is located at 1216 Fifth Ave., NY, NY at 103rd St. For further information on the lecture series, please call 212-822-7314 or email history@nyam.org. Website http://www.nyam.org.

Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania Spring 1998 Workshops

• March 30, Sarah Tracy, University of Wisconsin, An Evolving Science of "Man": The Rise and Fall of Constitutional Medicine, 1920-1950.
• April 6, Thomas P. Hughes.
• April 11, Roger Smith, Joint Penn/Princeton at Penn, Integration, the Mind and the Brain: Shaping the Issues in Interwar Science. Workshops are held in room 392 Logan Hall, 249 South 36th St. Website http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/hss/

History of Medicine Seminars

• March 19, Jennifer Tuttle, University of California at San Diego, topic: literary and medical discourse in America, 1869-1911. Her talk will include a discussion of S. Weir Mitchell.
• March 26, Rebecca MacLennan, Columbia University, Prison Reform and Medical Models of Deviant Sexuality in the Progressive Era.
• April 2, David Rosner, Columbia University, The Professional Abandonment of Black Children in Post WWII New York City.
• April 9, David Harley Serlin, New York University, Reconstructing the Hiroshima Maidens: Cosmetic Surgery during the Cold War.
• April 16, Barbara Will, Dartmouth College, topic: neurasthenia as a cultural phenomenon in America from 1880-1915. Physician S. Weir Mitchell will figure prominently in Professor Will’s talk.
• April 23, Louise White, Emory University, "Bandages on Your Mouth" Experience and Narrative in the History of Colonial Medicine in Eastern Africa.
• April 30, Andrea Balis, Hunter College and City University of New York Graduate Center, The Popular Reception of Sulfa Drugs.

Seminars are held at the College of Physicians on Thursdays from 12:30 pm until 2:00 pm. Bring your lunch; beverages are provided. For more information call 215-563-3737, X 297 or 273.

EXHIBITIONS

Florence Nightingale Museum

Nightingale’s work as a pioneer of statistical methods after the Crimean War is highlighted. The Florence Nightingale Museum is located at 2 Lambeth Palace Rd., London SE1 7EW. For further information contact curator Alex Attewell phone: 0171-620-0374, email: press@florence-nightingale.co.uk.

Mütter Museum at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Coming in October 1998: Emerging Diseases. A host of new and re-emerging diseases are today threatening the health of the world. During the past two decades at least 29 new infectious diseases have appeared. At the same time, older diseases such as tuberculosis, dengue fever and diphtheria, which had gone into decline, are returning with renewed vigor. This is complicated by the growing phenomenon of antibiotic resistance. Crucial to the understanding of new and re-emerging diseases is the relationship between humans, disease and environment. Infectious diseases have plagued humans since the beginning of civilization. The new exhibit will be in the College Gallery, and draw upon the collections of the College’s Library and Mütter Museum and of other institutions. The exhibit will present the current understanding of the origin and nature of these diseases, and how they can be prevented and controlled. The exhibit will emphasize ways for individuals to minimize transmission of infections and maximize the efforts of medical and social interventions, such as immunization and changes in lifestyle or behavior.