Issue No.86 February 2008 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
This is my last President’s Message, so I thought I would take the opportunity to make it a “State of the Association” message. I think it is safe to begin by saying that the state of the Association is on the whole quite good, though there is certainly room for improvement.
Fiscally, we are doing reasonably well. AAHM has substantial assets in its own accounts and those of the History of Medicine Foundation. Thanks to the efforts of Ken Ludmerer and the generosity of many members, we raised some $318,000 (exceeding our goal) in the recent campaign to endow our awards. The interest on this sum will allow us to pay the cost of awarding the Association’s prizes, an important component of our activities.
I believe that the annual meeting program for Rochester demonstrates that the Association’s scholarly program is thriving. The scope and diversity of the papers to be presented is truly remarkable. Especially encouraging is the number of papers on the program by younger members at this and at other recent meetings. We seem secure in having a new generation of scholars to continue to advance the field.
On the other hand, our membership has been relatively static for many years, hovering around 1200. In the mid- 1980s, membership was over 1500, and it would be wonderful to once again reach that figure. The Association should devote some attention to considering ways to increase membership.
In spite of our sound fiscal position, we will need additional resources to ensure the future of the Association. As you know, recently our Secretary-Treasurer of more than nine years, Todd Savitt, resigned his post. We were fortunate to be able to recruit Chris Crenner to succeed Todd. As the Association and the discipline grows more complex, I fear that it will become more difficult to locate competent and dedicated individuals willing to take on this demanding job on a volunteer basis. We need to start thinking about the possibility of hiring a part-time or full- time executive secretary for the organization, or at the very least providing the Secretary-Treasurer with considerably more resources. In an effort to achieve this aim, the Council is planning a renewed fund raising campaign, about which you will hear more shortly. 2 AAHM NEWSLETTER
I want to close by thanking the members for giving of the Eastman School of Music all-female wind me this opportunity to serve as your President, and quintet, “Arabesque Winds”; a rousing finale on my fellow officers, Council members, and committee Sunday morning with five concurrent sessions members for their support, encouragement and including one on “Religion and Conscience” and assistance during my term. I will leave the office another on “Sex and Surgery in China.” confident that AAHM will be in good hands with Bruce Fye filling the position. Ciao! The AAHM NewsLetter is edited by Jodi Koste and Joan John Parascandola, Echtenkamp Klein and published three times a year by the AAHM President American Association for the History of Medicine, Inc. It is distributed free of charge to the membership. TABLE OF CONTENTS AAHM Officers John Parascandola, Ph.D., President W. Bruce Fye, M.D., M.A.., Vice President President’s Message 1 Christopher Crenner, M.D., Ph.D., Secretary-Treasurer AAHM News 2 Jacalyn Duffin, M.D., Ph.D., Immediate Past President
News of Members 5 The Association’s Web site is
Other News 18 News items of 250 words or less are invited and may be submitted by e-mail, fax, or regular mail. Deadlines: 1 July, 1 October, and 15 February. AAHM NEWS Obviously, the aesthetic satisfaction and intellectual AAHM 2008 Rochester, NY stimulation of the meeting will be of high order, but what will the city of Rochester have to offer? First, if By the time you read this, you should already be the law of averages continues in force, the daily high familiar with the program for the Association’s 81 st will be 53 degrees and the daily low will be 34. Rain is annual meeting. It’s been available on the meeting harder to predict, so bring an umbrella just in case. Web site since late January, and if the postal services The principal meeting venue, the Hyatt Regency have done their work the printed version should have Hotel, is located on Main Street in the heart of arrived at your home by mid-February. As we’re sure downtown, just ten minutes or so by cab or van from you’ll agree, this year’s program contains unusual the Rochester International Airport. For train buffs, riches and variety plus some special features: the the Amtrak station is even closer. The hotel is in easy Sanford Meyerowitz Memorial Lecture by Anne walking distance to the Genesee River and its High Harrington of Harvard; the Garrison Lecture on “The Falls, the High Falls Historic Preservation District, the Aesthetic Grounding of Modern Medicine” by Yale’s historic Corn Hill neighborhood, the world-famous John Harley Warner, delivered in the beautiful setting Eastman Theater (home to the Rochester of the George Eastman House and International Philharmonic Orchestra), the Strong National Museum of Photography; the Awards Banquet Museum of Play, the Excellus Blue Cross Arena, and Saturday night enhanced by the musical performance dozens of excellent and interesting restaurants. Within February 2008 3 a few blocks of the Hyatt, you can find Tapas 177 a Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Medicine at featuring wild game and seafood dishes, Nathaniel’s Johns Hopkins. He is the author of The Mechanical Pub, Dinosaur Bar-B-Que (“a genuine honky tonk rib Philosophy and the “Animal Oeconomy”: A Study in the joint”), and the elegant Max’s Restaurant across from Development of English Physiology During the Seventeenth and Eastman Theater. Just a little farther away but still in Eighteenth Centuries (1981), and in 1997 he and easy striking range are dozens and dozens more, with Elizabeth Fee published Making Medical History: The every variety of atmosphere and cuisine, including Life and Times of Henry E. Sigerist, which they co-edited charming old Erie canal houses, English pubs, live and substantially co-authored. He has published music venues, and American, continental, numerous articles on the history of psychosomatic Mediterranean, and Asian favorites. medicine, American health policy, and American and international public health. He has been a member of Additional cultural and recreational options range AAHM for close to forty years and is this year’s co- from tours and tea at the Susan B. Anthony House, chair of the Local Arrangements Committee for the guided tours of the Memorial Art Gallery, a Triple A annual meeting. In the past, he served as chair of the baseball game between the Rochester Red Wings (a Shryock Medal Committee and of the Welch Medal Minnesota Twins affiliate) and the Syracuse Chiefs (a Committee. Toronto Blue Jays affiliate), lots of hockey, a free contemporary percussion concert at Kilbourn Hall of John M. Eyler holds a B.A. in History from the the Eastman School of Music, performances by the University of Maryland and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Pegasus Early Music Group in the wood-paneled History of Science from the University of Wisconsin, living room of the Rochester Academy of Medicine, a Madison. His formal training in the history of showing of “Pulse: A STOMP Odyssey” at the medicine came as a postdoctoral fellow for two years Strasenburgh Planetarium, a range of foreign and on Macy Foundation and NIH fellowships also at independent films at the Little Theater, and a Madison. Following a visiting appointment in the complimentary tasting of Finger Lakes’ wines. Department of History at Northwestern University, he joined the faculty in the Program in the History of There will clearly be plenty to enjoy in Rochester in Medicine at the University of Minnesota in 1974. In addition to the superb program of lectures, papers, 1999 he became Director of the Program. His and workshops. We look forward to hosting you and research and publications have been in the history of to sharing our city. epidemiology, public health, and state medicine. His publications include Victorian Social Medicine: The Ideas Ted Brown and Stephanie Brown Clark of Methods of William Farr (1979) and Sir Arthur 2008 Local Arrangements Committee Co-Chairs Newsholme and State Medicine 1885-1935 (1997). He is . currently studying virus research and epidemiology in Nominating Committee America between the World Wars. He joined the AAHM in 1973 and has been an active member since, The report of the AAHM Nominating Committee serving as member and chair of several committees, appears on the enclosed memorandum from AAHM twice as a Council member, and giving the Garrison Secretary-Treasurer Christopher Crenner. Biographies Lecture in 2005. for the nominated candidates appear below. W. Bruce Fye received his undergraduate and Theodore M. Brown is Professor of History, of medical degrees from the Johns Hopkins University Community and Preventive Medicine, and of Medical and, after a medical residency at New York Hospital, Humanities at the University of Rochester in he returned to Hopkins for his cardiology fellowship. Rochester, New York. He received his Ph.D. in A Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Hopkins, History of Science from Princeton University and was Bruce received a master’s degree from the Institute of 4 AAHM NEWSLETTER the History of Medicine in 1978. He founded the States, 1867-1973 (1997) and editor (with Nancy echocardiography laboratory at the Marshfield Clinic Tomes and Paula Treichler) of Medicine’s Moving in Wisconsin where he served as Chair of Cardiology. Pictures: Medicine, Health and Bodies in American Film and In 2000 Bruce joined the Mayo Clinic as a cardiologist Television (2007), which includes her chapter on the and Professor of Medicine and the History of 1950s campaign for breast self-examination. Her Medicine at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. In newest work on epidemics, reproduction, and 2006 he was selected to be director of the newly disabilities, Epidemic of Anxiety: Mothers, “Deformed” created Mayo Clinic Center for Medical History. He is Babies, and German Measles (Rubella) in America, is the author of The Development of American Physiology: forthcoming. Other current research projects include Scientific Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (1987) and Agent Orange; child examination; and law, medicine, American Cardiology: The History of a Specialty and its and privacy. She has been a member of the AAHM College (1996). He is now writing a history of for almost twenty years and has served on several cardiology at the Mayo Clinic, a project supported in AAHM committees, as well as on the editorial board part by an NLM Publication Grant. He has been a of the Bulletin of the History of Medicine. member of the AAHM since 1975, and has served on and chaired many AAHM committees. He is currently Nancy Tomes is Professor and Chair of History at serving as AAHM Vice President. Stony Brook University. She is the author of two books on the history of psychiatry: A Generous Norman Gevitz is Professor of the History of Confidence: Thomas Story Kirkbride and the Art of Asylum Medicine and Chair of the Department of Social Keeping (1984) and (with Lynn Gamwell) Madness in Medicine at Ohio University. He received his Ph.D. in America: Cultural and Medical Perceptions of Mental Illness Sociology from the University of Chicago. He is the nd Before 1914 (1995). Her last book, The Gospel of Germs: author of The DOs: Osteopathic Medicine in America 2 Men, Women and the Microbe in American Life (1998), ed. (2004); editor of Other Healers: Unorthodox Medicine won both the History of Science Society’s Davis Prize in America (1988); co-editor of Beyond Flexner: Medical and the American Association for the History of Education in the 20th Century (1992); and is the author Medicine’s Welch Medal. While a fellow at the of forty articles and chapters. He has received three National Humanities Center, she developed honorary doctorate degrees as well as several public “Medicine and Madison Avenue,” a digital collection service awards. His research has been underwritten by on the history of health-related advertising available the National Endowment for the Humanities, the on the Duke University Library’s Web site. She is National Library of Medicine, and the U.S. currently finishing a book on evolving conceptions of Department of Education. He is currently at work on patient/consumer “empowerment” from the New a book titled Puritan Medicine: Health and Healing in Deal to the Reagan revolution. Nancy has been a Seventeenth-Century New England. He has been a member of the AAHM since the early 1980s, and has member of AAHM since 1979 and has served as chair twice served as Program Chair for its annual meeting. of the Education Committee, as well as being a member of both the Shryock and Osler Medal AAHM Student Section Committees. The Student Section of the AAHM invites all graduate Leslie J. Reagan is Associate Professor in the and medical students to the second annual Student History Department and the College of Medicine at Luncheon at noon on Saturday, 12 April during the the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, with upcoming conference in Rochester, NY. To ensure a affiliations in the Law School and the Gender and seat for this pay-your-own-way networking Women’s Studies Program as well. She received her opportunity, please check the box on your AAHM Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. conference registration form. Location will be an area She is the author of the prize-winning, When Abortion restaurant TBA. Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United February 2008 5
In addition, student accommodations are being history topics. The speakers are Russell Johnson, offered again this year. If you would like to be set up UCLA; Micaela Sullivan-Fowler, University of with a roommate, please contact Kristen Ehrenberger Wisconsin, Madison; Paul Theerman, NLM. Joan at [email protected] by 10 March at the absolute Echtenkamp Klein, University of Virginia, will chair latest. the session
Finally, the Student Section will be launching its own NEWS OF MEMBERS page on the AAHM Web site later this year: watch for it! Kimberly Jensen, Department of History, Western Oregon University has published Mobilizing Minerva: AAHM Luncheon Workshops in Rochester American Women in the First World War (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008). The study addresses Phil Wilkin and Jon Erlen will be presenting a women physicians’ campaign for officer status and luncheon workshop in Rochester. The goal will be to rank, wartime service, and their activism to address show the history of medicine/health care resources violence against women. available in the European Union Library and Archives now located in Hillman Library at the University of Alix Cooper reports that her book, Inventing the Pittsburgh. This is a treasure trove of post-1960 Indigenous: Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early primary documents. Modern Europe, was recently published by Cambridge University Press. Cooper was recently promoted to We are asking your assistance in creating this Associate Professor with tenure at the State presentation. We are asking any history of medicine University of New York at Stony Brook. scholars working in the post-1960 period to send us their research project we may use as examples in this Florence Eliza Glaze is 2007-8 winner of the presentation. Please remember that this resource Andrew W. Mellon Rome Prize in Medieval Studies. provides international coverage not only of Europe; it While resident at the American Academy in Rome, also has extensive history of medicine holdings for Glaze is completing her critical edition of the early most third world countries. Please email your post- Salernitan practical manual by Gariopontus/ 1960 research interests to: [email protected]. Thanks for Guarimpotus of Salerno, the Passionarius of Book of your assistance in creating this presentation. Diseases. The edition is to appear as part of the ‘Edizione Nazionale La Scuola Medica Salernitana,’ a A luncheon workshop on Saturday, 12 April features new series under the direction of Agostino Paravicini- members of Archivists and Librarians in the History Bagliani and Danielle Jacquart. of the Health Sciences (ALHHS). The description for the workshop, “21st Century History of Medicine Kenton Kroker, York University, Jennifer Keelan Resources ‘Out There:’ Three Perspectives from and Pauline M.H. Mazumdar of the University of Archivists and Librarians,” reads: The advent and Toronto are pleased to announce the upcoming acceptance of the Web changed many things, publication of their co-edited volume, Crafting including a number of the resources used to teach or Immunity: working histories of clinical immunology by research the history of medicine. In some cases, the Ashgate Publishers. teachers of medical history are now learning from their students what resources are available The University of Michigan Press has just published electronically. This program will offer perspectives Heather Prescott’s new book, Student Bodies—The from three geographically diverse archivists and Influence of Student Health Services in American Society and librarians, working at three flagship institutions, about Medicine. what is “out there” in terms of researching medical 6 AAHM NEWSLETTER
Conevery Bolton Valencius, Associate of the history of the profession of chiropractic medicine. Department of History of Science, Harvard Since 1981 he has worked as a clinical researcher, University, has been awarded a 2008 National faculty member, administrator, and historian at several Endowment for the Humanities fellowship for work chiropractic institutions on Sciences of the Shaking Earth, an exploration of how we know what we think we know about the New Dr. Keating grew and nurtured the fledgling interest Madrid earthquakes, a series of temblors that were in the history of the chiropractic profession into a centered in the Mississippi Valley in the winter of formidable body. He served as president (1994-95) of 1811-1812 and were experienced across eastern North the Association for the History of Chiropractic America. (AHC) and at the time of his death was a member of its board of directors. He authored over 500 Heather Perry, Assistant Professor of History at professional papers, 19 book chapters or books, University of North Carolina at Charlotte has won the including: A History of Los Angeles College of Chiropractic; 2007 Brooke Hindle Fellowship, from the Society for a biography, B.J. of Davenport: the Early Years of the History of Technology to support work on her Chiropractic, published by the AHC; A History of manuscript, Recycling the Disabled: Army, Medicine, and Chiropractic Education in North America (also published Society in WWI Germany. by AHC), and a 1992 volume concerning clinical research for practitioners, Toward a Philosophy of the Jeffrey S. Reznick has been named Director of the Science of Chiropractic: a Primer for Clinicians. Joe’s Institute for the Study of Occupation and Health of career made an exceptional contribution to the the American Occupation Therapy Foundation in scholarship of chiropractic history. Bethesda, Maryland, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and an Honorary Research Fellow in the His contributions were expanded exponentially by his Department of Modern History and Center for First willingness and patience to love and mentor World War Studies of the UK's University of numerous neophyte historians of the profession. He Birmingham. always had time to share his research, comments, wisdom, and experience when one of us had a germ OBITUARIES of an idea that needed nourishment. Joe grew several chiropractors into scholar-practitioners. The chiropractic profession has lost one of its most Joseph C. Keating, Jr., 1950-2007 distinguished and prolific historians. P. Reginald Hug, D.C. Joseph C. Keating, the first Historian of the Birmingham, AL. Chiropractic Profession, an endowed faculty position at the Cleveland College of Chiropractic in Kansas City Missouri, died Sunday, 14 October 2007 in CONSTITUENT CORNER Kansas City, MO., at the age of 57. The Society of Medical History & the Joseph Keating was born 8 October 1950 and raised Humanities in Chicago in the Hudson River Valley. Joe’s training in clinical psychology had a heavy research methods In October 2007, the Society of Medical History & component, developing his interest in rigorous the Humanities in Chicago was accepted as a scholarly methods and discourse. He earned his Ph.D. Constituent Society of AAHM. We were originally in clinical psychology at the State University of New founded in 1909 to foster an interest in the history of York at Albany in 1981. His post-doctoral clinical medicine. In 2005, we became an affiliate of the residency was completed at a physical medicine and Hektoen Institute of Medicine and were renamed to rehabilitation specialty hospital in Schenectady. Early emphasize a broadening of interest to other aspects of in his academic career he developed an interest in the the humanities. February 2008 7
Ohio Academy of Medicine Our President is James L. Franklin, M.D., a Gastroenterologist and Internist on the Faculty of On Saturday, 5 April, the Ohio Academy of Medical Rush Medical School in Chicago. He has a long History will convene in Cleveland at the Dittrick. The interest in medical history and is currently writing a meeting this year will maintain its customary morning biography of Chicago Gastroenterologist, Joseph B. session of papers on a variety of medical history Kirsner. Also on the board is George Dunea, M.D., topics. Following lunch we will offer something new President and CEO of the Hektoen Institute and and different, a panel discussion entitled “Collecting Chairman of the Division of Nephrology/ Medical and Scientific Antiques.” Medical and Hypertension at Stroger Hospital of Cook County in scientific antiques have been sought by collectors for Chicago, and Georgia Lubben, M.D., Attending the past half century, but much has changed in just Physician at Jackson Park Hospital in Chicago. the past decade. To better understand the ins and outs, and the ups and downs, of collecting scientific Each year we hold eight programs at the Hektoen and medical antiques, we have invited a panel of Institute on the first Tuesday of the month. Lectures distinguished collectors to share their experiences, are preceded by a cocktail reception, which allows the their triumphs, and their frustrations. Where do you audience to exchange ideas. The lectures have covered start collecting? What sources provide the best a wide range of topics, some related to the history of information and guidance? What has been the impact medicine in Chicago and others exploring the of eBay and other online markets? To explore these interface between medicine and art, literature and topics, we will feature invited longtime friends of the music. The final meeting of the year has been Dittrick, including Percy Skuy (the Skuy traditionally dedicated to the memory of Dr. Morris Contraceptive Collection), Tony Tizzano, M.D., Fishbein, the Society’s past president and an (specializing in ob/gyn antiques), and Tom Peterson influential physician and editor. Visit us at (scientific instruments relating to magnetism and
The Society for the Social History of Medicine and in celebrating 25 years of such research 2008 Annual Conference, “History and the Health conferences. Population: Society, Government, Health and Medicine,” will be jointly organized by the Centre for For further information regarding the conference the Social History of Health and Healthcare Glasgow, please visit the AAHN Web site at
The conference will embrace all historical perspectives LECTURES/SYMPOSIA on the broad issue of how health has been defined and by whom. It will also consider the reasons that “Modern Medicines: New Perspectives in the various agencies involved in healthcare, including Pharmaceutical History” will be held 17-18 patients and communities, have adopted their October 2008 at the American Institute of the History approaches and strategies. The event is framed by of Pharmacy in Madison, WI. reference to the generation of historians influenced bythe idea that issues of health and healthcare are The evolution of the modern pharmaceutical entangled in the projects of government, and seeks to enterprise over the long twentieth century—from its engage with and critique ‘governmentality’ as a tool of early intersection with the image and later the analysis in the history of medicine. structure of scientific research, to its dramatic postwar expansion and late-century saturation of medical and Deadline for abstracts: 31 March 2008. To submit a marketing media—has implications that stretch far title and abstract of no more than 300 words please beyond the traditional history of pharmacy and contact Lydia Marshall [email protected]. medicine to impact broader social, cultural, economic, business, legal, regulatory, and political developments. The American Association for the History of This conference seeks to foster and reflect on the Nursing (AAHN) and the School of Nursing, growing body of pharmaceutical scholarship across University of Pennsylvania, are co-sponsoring the historical disciplines and encourage novel theoretical Association's 25 th Annual Conference to be held in and methodological developments by featuring newer Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 25-28 September 2008 at scholars alongside more established figures in the the Hyatt Regency Philadelphia Hotel. The field. Scholars are encouraged to submit a one-page conference features peer-reviewed papers and posters proposal by 1 February 2008; some travel funds will on the history of health care and nursing. The be available for graduate students, and established Conference is an excellent forum for all interested in scholars interested in using the resources of the sharing and learning about the historical events, American Institute of the History of Pharmacy can people, and issues that shape health care’s current apply for travel funds through the Sonnedecker science and practice. AAHN conferences draw Visiting Scholar Program of the UW-Madison School participants from across the nation and around the of Pharmacy. See
September 25, 2008, John Eyler, Ph.D., Professor of The UCSF Japanese Woodblock Print Collection is of the History of Medicine, University of Minnesota interest to scholars of Asian medicine, the history of School of Medicine, “Taming the Flu: Influenza medicine, and Japanese art. Consisting of Vaccines and American Virology, 1937-1957.” approximately 400 prints, it is the largest collection of woodblock prints related to health in the United November 6, 2008, 15 th David H. Darrow, M.D., States and an important component of the Library's D.D.S., Professor of Otolaryngology and Pediatrics, East Asian Collection. Eastern Virginia Medical School, Annual Sylvan E. Stool History of Medicine Lecture, “Ails to the Chief: The prints offer a visual account of Japanese medical Three American Presidents and Their ENT knowledge in the late Edo and Meiji periods. The Maladies.” majority of the prints date from the mid- to late nineteenth century, when Japan was opening to the The Hannah Chair Lecture Series of the West after almost two hundred and fifty years of self- University of Ottawa will be held on Fridays at 12:30 imposed isolation. Funding for the digitization of the p.m., Pavillon Roger-Guindon Hall (2012). For UCSF Japanese Woodblock Print Collection was additional information visit their Web site: provided by the California Digital Library (CDL).
(MAMAS) photographs taken by Museum staff th during WWII in Europe and Asia, images from the More than 14,000 attendees at the AAFP’s 59 “Atlas of Tropical and Extraordinary Diseases,” Annual Scientific Assembly this year in Chicago historical portraits, medical pictures dating from U.S. enjoyed the exhibit. Entitled “The AAFP & AAFP/F: involvement in World War I through World War II, A Tribute to Excellence,” this special joint exhibit the Medical Museum’s 19th-century logbooks, Korean highlighted each decade in the Academy’s and War pictures from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Foundation’s histories. Rare photographs, artifacts, Research (WRAIR), AEF autopsy and other and other materials from the Center’s library, photographs from WWI, Anita McGee's pictures of archives, and museum collections were featured in the the Russo-Japanese War, Signal Corps medical images 16 AAHM NEWSLETTER
Gathering Place, a special exhibit area that was set up our specialty as reflected by articles published in peer- for the exhibit at the Assembly. reviewed journals, and/or in monographs.
“I found the exhibit to be very entertaining and Dr. David Wilkinson has published two books, 17 informative,” said Dr. Eric E. Fryxell, a family book chapters, 43 peer-reviewed articles, 19 non-peer physician from Cleveland Heights, Ohio, who was reviewed articles, as well as nine posters, and three one of the many Assembly attendees to see the booklets on the history of anesthesia. His book exhibit. “My residency teacher imbued me with an chapter, “The History of Trauma Anesthesia,” awe for the early activists who worked so hard for the published in Textbook of Trauma Anesthesia and Critical specialty. The only way to sustain such energy and Care in 1993 is the definitive treatise to date on the idealism is to know our history.” topic. Dr. Wilkinson has arranged a variety of audiovisual projects focusing on the history of For those who were not able to see the exhibit at anesthesia including 38 such presentations. In 1991, Assembly, an online version will be developed and he won a British Medical Association film award for placed on the Center’s Web site. his “Some Things Never Change” video.
Housed at AAFP headquarters and administered by On 31 January, Harvard University’s Open the AAFP Foundation, the Center serves as the Collections Program (OCP) launched its third principal resource center for the collection, online collection, “Contagion: Historical Views of conservation, exhibition, and study of materials Diseases and Epidemics.” The new, Web-accessible relating to the history of Family Medicine in the collection is online now at
Monrad Professor in the Social Sciences—Faculty of Spectrum Health Sciences Library, Grand Rapids, MI; Arts and Sciences; and Barbara Gutman Rosenkrantz, and East Carolina University, Greenville, NC. Over Professor of the History of Science, Emeritus— 100,000 people visited these exhibitions. Faculty of Arts and Sciences The reanimated (pun intended) Frankenstein: Penetrating Harvard libraries, special collections, and archives the Secrets of Nature traveling exhibition visited the contributing to the “Contagion” collection include: Howard County Public Library, Columbia, Maryland Andover-Harvard Theological Library—Harvard (October and November) and Georgetown University Divinity School; Baker Library/Knowledge and (November through February 2008). Library Services—Harvard Business School; Center for the History of Medicine/Francis A. Countway Online Access Library of Medicine—Harvard Medical School; Government Documents/Microforms Collections/ The Maxine Singer site joined Profiles in Science on 10 Social Sciences Program—Harvard College Library; December—a collaboration with the Library of Harvard Law School Library; Harvard Map Congress—and the Arthur Kornberg site followed on Collection/Social Sciences Program—Harvard 16 October—a collaboration with Stanford College Library; Harvard University Archives— University’s Department of Special Collections. Harvard University Library; Harvard-Yenching Library—Harvard College Library; Houghton Catalog records from The Prints and Photographs Library—Harvard College Library; Arthur and Collection “Images from the History of Medicine” Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of database
For more information about “Contagion: Historical Acquisitions Views of Diseases and Epidemics,” visit
Experience in conducting and analyzing oral histories, POSITION ANNOUNCEMENTS and knowledge of oral history methodology, is desirable. The incumbent will work in partnership NIH Office of History, Archivist Position with the on-going collaborative effort between the Academic Health Center (AHC) and the University The NIH Office of History seeks a full-time Archivist Libraries to document and preserve the history of the to work with colleagues in history, museum studies, University of Minnesota’s Academic Health Center. and social studies of science. The primary role of the During the duration of the oral history project, the Archivist involves overseeing the organization, person hired will be relieved of most teaching processing, and digitization of scientific and responsibilities and instead will be expected to devote biomedical research collections of the NIH in most of her/his time to the AHC History Project: compliance with professional archival standards. conducting oral histories with current and past Projects are diverse, multi-disciplinary, and include members of the AHC and with other individuals collaborations with other archivists in the NIH and whose experience is relevant to that history; editing Federal archives. U.S. citizenship is a requirement for those transcripts; and depositing them in University this position. For a full position description, including Archives. At the conclusion of the oral history project compensation range and benefits, please consult Job the incumbent will assume the ordinary teaching load Announcement #OD-08-228548-DE, available in the of the History of Medicine Program. The appointee Internet on USAJOBS.gov. Alternatively, interested will be expected to maintain an active scholarly persons are encouraged to contact Robert Martensen, research program and demonstrate her/his academic Director, Office of History, at (301) 496-6610 or merit through peer-reviewed publications. Salary is [email protected] competitive. The review of applications will begin 25 February 2008. The search will remain open until the Qualifications: Basic Requirements: (A) Bachelor's position is filled. The start date is negotiable. degree in archival science or bachelor's degree with a Applicants should submit a letter of interest, a CV, a major that includes 18 semester hours in archival writing sample no longer than 25-30 pages, and the science, history and/or in political science or names of three references to the University of government, and 12 semester hours in one or any Minnesota on-line employment system,
History of Medicine/Oral History This is a call for participants. The American Academy of the History of Dentistry (AAHD) is The University of Minnesota invites applications for a conducting a survey of all museums, libraries, special full-time, twelve-month, tenure-track Assistant collections, archives, and other similar organizations Professorship in the History of Medicine with special to identify, locate and learn more about dental history responsibilities for oral history. A Ph.D. in history of collections and to update a directory that was medicine or related field with special interest in the published in the organization’s journal in 1992. history of American academic medicine, health policy, Shannon O’Dell, Curator of the Sindecuse Museum or health care institutions, as well as good of Dentistry at the University of Michigan and Andrea interpersonal and communication skills, and a Matlak, Archivist at the American Dental Association commitment to collaborative research are required. are preparing the mailing list for the survey form February 2008 19 which will be sent out at a later date. Whether you include a comprehensive list of all individual and represent a broad subject organization with a small institutional contributors. quantity of collections pertaining to dentistry or an institution that specializes in dentistry, we hope you The publisher Taylor & Francis is currently offering will speak up and let us add you to our survey mailing discounted subscription rates to individual AAHM list. We encourage participation from all including members on the following journal: Annals of international organizations. You need not be an Science
The aim of the directory is two-fold: to provide a Between Text & Patient: the Medical Enterprise guide for scholars and interested individuals wishing in Medieval & Early Modern Europe, a collection to study the history of dentistry; and to generate of essays in honor of Michael R. McVaugh, is to be interest in this field and stimulate new research published by SISMEL publishers (Firenze) in Fall 2008. The volume is based on a conference by the The data will help us create an on-line database and same title held at the University of North Carolina, directory to be published in the Journal of the History of Chapel Hill in March 2007. Editors Brian Nance and Dentistry and the AAHD Web site Eliza Glaze bring together essays by nearly 20 authors,