American Association for the History of Medicine 81st Annual Meeting Program April 10–13, 2008 Hyatt Regency Rochester 125 East Main Street Rochester, New York 14604 Thursday, April 10 Registration 1–5 p.m. (Alcove of Foyer) 2:00–6:30 p.m. AAHM Council Meeting (Regency C) 6:45–8:30 p.m. Opening Reception (Regency Foyer) Sponsored by Unity Health and the Gleason Foundation 8:30–10:00 p.m. Special Session (Grand EFG) Sanford Meyerowitz Memorial Lecture Department of Psychiatry University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry The Cure Within: The Many Histories of Mind-Body Medicine – And Why They Matter Today Anne Harrington Professor and Chair Department of the History of Science Harvard University Friday, April 11 Registration 8:00–5:00 (Alcove of Foyer) Book Exhibit 9:00–5:00 (Grand ABC) 7:00–8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast (Grand ABC) 7:15–8:30 a.m. Editorial Board Breakfast for BHM (Carson) 7:15–8:30 a.m. President’s Breakfast for New Members (Wilmorite) 8:45–10:00 a.m. Plenary Session (Grand EFG) John Parascandola, AAHM President and W. Bruce Fye, AAHM President Elect, presiding Greetings from Ralph W. Kuncl, MD, PhD, Provost and Executive Vice President, University of Rochester Presidential Address: John Parascandola Quarantining Women: VD Rapid Treatment Centers in World War II America *** 10:00–10:15 a.m. Break (Grand Foyer) *** 10:15–11:45 a.m. Concurrent Sessions A1, A2, A3, A4 A1-Hospitals: Research and Care (Carson) Hyung Wook Park (University of Minnesota) From a Public Asylum to a Research Institute: The Baltimore City Hospitals, the National Institutes of Health, and the Science of Aging Deborah A. Kraut (Independent Scholar) “We print whatever is worth reporting”: The In-House Medical Journals Published by American Hospitals under Jewish Auspices Kenneth E. Collins (University of Glasgow, UK) Immigrants in the Scottish Hospitals, 1880–1920: The Jewish Experience Moderator: Howard Markel (University of Michigan) 2 Friday, April 11 A2-Anatomy and Imaging the Body (Regency BC) Kristen Ann Ehrenberger (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) The “telescopic body”: Visualization of Normal Anatomy and Social Pathology in Weimar Germany Gary Steiner (Bucknell University) The Cultural Significance of Rembrandt’s “Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicholaas Tulp” Aimee Dowl (University of California at Los Angeles) Books, Bodies, and Machines: Anatomical Technologies in Turn-of-the-Century Domestic Hygiene Guides Moderator: Ramunas Kondratas (Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution) A3-Drugs and Drug Treatment (Grand D) Marie Helene Reinholdt (University of Manchester, UK) Behavioral Difficulty or Neurological Disability? The Rise of ADHD and Ritalin in U.S. and U.K. Schools Nathan W. Moon (Georgia Institute of Technology) “Strange Couchfellows”: Drugs and Psychoanalysis in Postwar American Psychology Joseph Gabriel (Florida State University College of Medicine) Between Pharmacological Determinism and the Social Construction of Addiction: Science, Culture, and the Practice of History Moderator: David T. Courtwright (University of North Florida) A4-Lives in Medicine (Wilmorite) Dora B. Weiner (University of California at Los Angeles) From the City of Light to the City of Kings: Health and Politics in Peru in the Era of the Enlightenment and Emancipation (ca. 1750–1850) Constance Putnam (Independent Scholar) Semmelweis Redivivus – A New Perspective on the Misunderstood “Outsider” Sarah Whitney Tracy (University of Oklahoma) Health Revolutionary: The Life and Science of Ancel Keys Moderator: Susan Reverby (Wellesley College) *** 3 Friday, April 11 12:00 noon–1:15 pm Concurrent Luncheon Sessions L1-Cultural Exchanges in the Neurosciences (Grand E) Organizers: Stephen T. Casper and Frank W. Stahnisch L. Stephen Jacyna (University College London, UK) Learning German: Henry Head in Halle and Prague Frank W. Stahnisch (McGill University, Canada) Internationality, Emigration, and the All-So-Loose Network of the Goldstein-Group: Examining the Impact of “America” on their Neuroscience and their Impact on American Neuroscience Stephen T. Casper (Clarkson University) Establishing Cultural Commonalities in Neutral Territory: “The Neurologists” and the 1931 First International Neurological Congress, Bern Katja Guenther (Harvard University) Foreign Bodies: Ortfried Foerster, Wilder Penfield, and the Transatlantic Exchange of Knowledge Moderator: Theodore Brown (University of Rochester) Commentator: Anne Harrington (Harvard University) L2-A New Primary Resource for the History of Medicine: The European Union’s Archives at the University of Pittsburgh (Grand F) Organizers: Jonathan Erlen (University of Pittsburgh) and Philip Wilkin (University of Pittsburgh) L3-Why Isn’t My Paper on the Program? A Guide to Writing Abstracts (Grand G) Organizers: Mary Lindemann (University of Miami), Harry Marks (Johns Hopkins University), Nancy Tomes (State University of New York at Stony Brook) *** 4 Friday, April 11 1:15–2:45 PM Concurrent Sessions B1, B2, B3, B4 B1-The Picture in Numbers: Statistics and Health (Wilmorite) Leonard P. Schwarz (University of Birmingham, UK) and Jeremy P. Boulton (University of Newcastle, UK) Understanding Mortality in the Eighteenth-Century City: London at Street Level Joseph November (National Institutes of Health History Office) Computing and the Reasoning Foundations of Medical Diagnosis Deborah I. Levine (Washington University in St. Louis) Measure of a Man: Height/Weight Charts, 1900–1920 Moderator: Gerald Oppenheimer (Brooklyn College, CUNY) B2-Births and Birth Control (Carson) Oshrit Ikne (Bar Ilan University, Israel) The Pill, the Holocaust, and the Demographics of War: Haim Moshe Shelenyak’s Research on Oral Contraception Salim Al-Gailani (University of Cambridge, UK) Teratology for the Clinic: J.W. Ballantyne’s “Antenatal pathology and hygiene” Signe Nipper Nielsen (University of Cambridge, UK) Foetuses and Wondrous Births in Early Modern Denmark Moderator: Margaret Marsh (Rutgers University, Camden) B3-Colonialism and the Battle against Disease (Regency BC) Laurence Monnais (Université de Montréal, Canada) A Healthy Body in a Healthy Environment? Discourse on Urban Health in the Interwar Vietnamese Press Diana L. Shull (Grinnell College) “They Call It Felenza”: The Influenza Epidemic of 1918–1919 and Nigerian Anti- Colonial Movements Nadav Davidovitch (Ben Gurion University, Israel) Zionism, Colonial Medicine, and Knowledge Translation: The Pasteur Institute for Health in Palestine Moderator: Randall M. Packard (Johns Hopkins University) 5 Friday, April 11 B4-Cancer: Diagnosis and Research (Grand D) Emily Louise Alden (University of Iowa) Krebiozen: How Changing Sources of Medical Authority Shaped the Fate of a Drug Carla Keirns (University of Michigan) Lung Cancer and Tuberculosis, 1910–1930: Differential Diagnosis, Changing Technologies and Hidden Epidemiologies Martha N. Gardner (Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences) “Volunteer Researchers”: E. Cuyler Hammond and the American Character of Research at the American Cancer Society, 1951–1979 Moderator: Barron H. Lerner (Columbia University) *** 2:45–3:00 pm Break (Grand Foyer) *** 3:00–4:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions C1, C2, C3, C4 C1-Health, Disease, and Diet (Grand D) Emily K. Abel (University of California at Los Angeles) The Rise and Fall of Celiac Disease Arleen M. Tuchman (Vanderbilt University) “The Grossest Feeders among Nations”: Diabetes and Ideas of Consumption in Early Twentieth Century America Susan E. Lederer (University of Wisconsin) From “loathsome waste product” to a “dignified and valued food for human beings”: the Medical Transformation of Edible Animal Viscera in Interwar America Moderator: Janet Golden (Rutgers University, Camden) C2-Visual Representations as Calls to Change (Regency BC) Dennis A. Doyle (Mississippi State University) “The Quiet Ones”: New York Psychiatrists and the Image of Harlem’s Juvenile Delinquents on the Silver Screen, 1943–1950 Suzanne White Junod (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) Progressive Era Skeptics: From Political Activists to Consumer Advocates [This paper is presented in memory of the late James Harvey Young, Ph.D.] 6 Friday, April 11 Paul Sendzuik (University of Adelaide, Australia) The Art of AIDS Prevention in Australia Moderator: Bert Hansen (Bernard Baruch College, CUNY) C3-The Stress of War (Carson) Ian Burney (University of Manchester, UK) and Neil Pemberton (University of Manchester, UK) Civilian Breakdown and the Homefront in Britain during the Second World War Ian Robert Miller (University of Manchester, UK) The Mind and Stomach at War: Stress, Rest, and Peptic Ulcer in World War II Neil Pemberton (University of Manchester, UK) “Blitz Concerts”: Panic and the Politics of Noise Abatement during the Blitz Moderator: Dale C. Smith (Uniformed University of the Health Sciences) C4-Understanding Disease in the Ancient World and Afterward (Wilmorite) Marco Antonio Viniegra (Harvard University) Galenism and the Rise of Black Bile Helen King (University of Reading, UK) “The Intestine Jar of Elephants:” The Reception of the Plague of Athens in Thomas Sprat’s “The Plague of Athens” (1659) and Beyond Derick Napoleon Alexandre (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Euripides and Hippocrates? A Case Study in Heracles’ Disease Moderator: Alain Touwaide (Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution) *** 5:00 p.m. Buses depart from Hyatt to Eastman House 5:30 p.m. Garrison Lecture (Dryden Theatre, George Eastman House, 900 East Ave., Rochester NY) John Harley Warner,