The seminar is organized and coordinated by graduate students across North America working in fields related to the history of medicine to foster a sense of community and provide a forum for sharing and critiquing graduate research by peers from a variety of institutions and backgrounds.

Registration is free. To register, contact Deborah Levine at dilevine@fas.harvard.edu. Please include name, institution, and whether or not you would like to be housed with a local graduate student.

All participants are invited to a reception to be held on Friday evening, October 15. For more information, please visit www.jointatlantic.org.

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Program: October 16, 2004

9:00-9:15: Opening Remarks

9:15-10:15: Session I (Constructing American Health and Medical Therapies: Boundaries, Culture, and Contexts):

Sally Romano,
The Rise of the “Healthy Tan”: Sunlight and the Skin in America, 1870-1920

Noemi Tousignant,
Could It Be an Illusion? Therapeutic Evaluation and the American Response to Acupuncture Anesthesia, 1971-5.

10:15-11:15: Session II (From Representation to Reification: Politics, Geography, and Disease in Nineteenth Century France and Britain):

Mary Hunter,
Borrowed Authority: Exposing the Realist Façade in Henri Gervex’s Avant l’Opération.

Matthew Newsom Kerr,
In the Air? : London Smallpox Hospitals and the Politics of Urban Space, 1870-1885.

11:15-11:30: Break

11:30-1:00: Session III (Politics, Race, and Autonomy: Contraception in the West):

Stephen Inrig,
A Trojan Horse in the White House: Condoms, Conservatives, and the Social Relocation of Virtue.

Sarah Lawrence,
Birth Control and Rural African Americans in the Modernizing South, 1890-1940.

Caroline Walker,
Therapeutic Contraception: Voluntary Birth Control Clinics and Public Health in Britain and the United States, 1921-1945.

1:00-2:30: Lunch

2:30-3:30: Session IV (Medicine and Race "From Below" I--Race and Health Policy):

Jim Downs,
Reconstructing an Epidemic: Smallpox Among Former Slaves After the Civil War.

Ann Gabbert,
Defining the Boundaries of Care: Local Responses to Global Concerns in El Paso Public Health Policy, 1881-1936.

3:30-4:30: Session V (Medicine and Race "From Below" II--Race and Practitioners):

Julia GoodFox,
Manifest Medicine: Indigenous Physicians in Nineteenth Century Indian Country.

Adam Biggs,
Strange Cures: Black Medical Doctors, the Problem of Race, and the New Negro in American Medicine, 1880-1950.

4:30-4:45: Break

4:45-5:45: Round Table Discussion on Medicine and Race

5:45-6:00: Closing Remarks