Groups

Medicine and Health

The History of Medicine and Health Working Group meets monthly to discuss a colleague’s work in progress or to discuss readings that are of particular interest to participants.  Meetings are usually held at the Center from 6:00 to 7:30 on second Thursdays.

If you would like to join this working group please contact or .

Upcoming Meetings

October 10, 2013

TBA

November 14, 2013

TBA

December 12, 2013

TBA

February 13, 2014

TBA

March 13, 2014

TBA

April 10, 2014

TBA

Past Meetings

March 14, 2013

Cheryl Logan introduced “Productive" Eugenics and the Double Gonad which is a chapter from her forthcoming book Hormones, Heredity and Race:  Spectacular Failure in Interwar Vienna (Rutgers University Press).

February, 14 2013

Johanna Schoen introduced her draft chapter, Medicine at the Edges of Life: Abortion and Fetal Research

December 13, 2012

Emily Abel and Janet Golden introduced their paper “Modern Medical Science and the Divine Providence of God”: Rethinking The Place of Religion in Postwar United States Medical History.

November 8, 2012

Greg Eghigian of Penn State introduced a draft chapter, Civilizing Sexuality Under Socialism, from his book tentatively titled The Corrigible and the Incorrigible: Science, Medicine, and the Convict in Twentieth-Century Germany. 

October 11, 2012

The Museum Factory: Charles H. Ward’s Anatomical Supply House by Erin Mcleary

April 11, 2012

Safe for Citizenship in the Motor City: Experiments in Seizure Containment at the White Special School, 1935-1956 by Rachel Elder, UPenn

October 12, 2011

Just a paradigm: evidence-based medicine in epistemological context by Miriam Solomon, Temple

April 13, 2011

Children at the Sea: The Seashore as Remedy for Urban Environments by Meggie Crnic, UPenn

March 9, 2011

A Startling New Chemotherapeutic Agent: Pediatrics, Infectious Disease and Baltimore’s Sydenham Hospital 1936-1949 by Cynthia Connolly (UPenn) and Janet Golden (Rutgers)