Instead of meeting in Madison, Wisconsin, the 94th annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine will be connecting online, May 12-16, 2021. Register now.
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Department of the History of Medicine’s participation includes talks, papers, and roundtables by both graduate students and faculty:
Thursday, May 13
8:00-9:00 am, A6 – Women’s Health on Three Continents
Speaker #3. Vincenza Mazzeo, Johns Hopkins University
“A Struggle for Freedom: Medicine, Gender, and Race in Apartheid South Africa”
3:00-4:00 pm, B1 – Care of Populations
Speaker #2. Maya Overby Koretzky, Johns Hopkins University
“State(s) of Emergency: The Rise of Modern Trauma Care at New Orleans Charity Hospital 1880-1930”
Friday, May 14
8:00-9:00 am, C1 – Asian Medical Modernities
Chair: Marta Hanson, Johns Hopkins University
7:00-8:00 pm, Dinner Session B1 – Publication and Patient Privacy: A Round-Table on Editorial Practice
Mary Fissell, Johns Hopkins University
Jeremy Greene, Johns Hopkins University
Saturday, May 15, 2021
11:00 am-12:00 pm, Flash Talks 1
Speaker #5. Leigh Alon, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
“10 Years Later: Reconsidering The Rosewood Center and Institutional Care in Maryland”
3:00-4:00 pm, E4 – Selling Health Products
Speaker #2. Alexander Parry, Johns Hopkins University
“Selling Safety: Domestic Accidents and the Business of Accident Prevention, 1920–1960”
3:00-4:00 pm, E5 – Reproductive Histories in Latin America
Speaker #1. Elizabeth O’Brien, Johns Hopkins University
“Indigeneity, Surgery, and the Making of Unborn Subjects in Colonial Latin America”
Speaker #3. Alexandre White, Johns Hopkins University
“Apprehending Otherness: The Colonial Encounter, Disease Control and Subject Formation”