Lecture Series: "Medicine and War" (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Lecture Series: "Medicine and War" (Indiana University, Bloomington) Forwarded to HISTNEUR-L from H-SCI-MED-TECH posting by ISHN member Ellen Dwyer. --RJ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Suzanne Moon , H-SCI-MED-TECH" [smtedit@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU] Date: Monday, January 19, 2004 3:50 pm Subject: Lecture Series: Medicine and War From: Ellen Dwyer [dwyer@indiana.edu] For the spring of 2004, with the support of the Indiana University Office of the Vice President for Research and the Department of History, the Indiana University-Bloomington Center for the History of Medicine will present a series on "Medicine and War." Lectures include the following: Friday, February 6 "Re-Arming the Disabled: The Mobilization of German Medicine in the First World War," Heather R. Perry, Indiana University, 1:30 PM, BH 004 Heather Perry is completing a dissertation "Recycling the Disabled: Army, Medicine, and Masculinity in World War I Germany" under the direction of James Diehl. She also is an editorial assistant at the American Historical Review. In addition to delivering a number of papers,Perry has published two articles, most recently "Re-Arming the Disabled Veteran: Artificially Rebuilding State and Society in WWI Germany," in Artificial Parts, Practical Lives: Modern Histories of Prosthetics (NYU Press, 2003). Perry is the recipient of seven fellowships and grants; she also twice has received the Paul R. Lucas Award for Outstanding Teaching. Friday, February 27 "Infection in the Civil War," Margaret Humphreys, Duke University, 1:30 PM, BH 004 The editor of the Journal of the History of Medicine, Margaret Humphreys is the Josiah Charles Trent Professor of Medicine at Duke University. Her major research interest is the history of disease in America, especially in the South. After finishing projects on yellow fever and malaria, she now as a new project on the history of medicine in the Civil War. Her most recent publications include a book: Malaria: Poverty, Race, and Public Health in the United States (2001) and two articles on "Disease and Panic in American History" (2002) and "Whose Body? Which Disease? Studying Malaria while Treating Neurosyphilis" (2003). Humphreys' researches been supported by both the Burroughs-Wellcome History of Medicine Fund and the Trent Foundation. Friday, March 5 "World War II and Beyond", 1:00-3:00 PM, DAR, IMU "Harry Stack Sullivan and Psychiatric Screening during World War II," Naoko Wake, Indiana University "Officer, Nurse, Woman: Shifting Definitions of Gender and American Military Nurses in the Vietnam War," Kara Dixon Vuic, Indiana University Naoko Wake is working on a dissertation entitled "Harry Stack Sullivan: A Progressive in an Age of Anxiety" under the direction of Lawrence Friedman. The author of two articles, most recently a co-authored piece on "Kinsey's Biographers: A Historiographical Renaissance (Journal of the History of Sexuality, 2003), Wake has received four fellowships, most recently the J. Steward and Dagmar K. Riley Graduate Fellowship at Indiana University. The focus of Kara Dixon Vuic's dissertation is well-captured by her paper title. At present, Vuic is an adjunct instructor at Columbus State Community College. While still in residence at Indiana University, she was an editorial assistant at the American Historical Review and the recipient of several university research grants. She is most interested in how the military constructed a new ideal female nurse in response to the gender debates of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as how the nurses themselves viewed their roles. Vuic's advisor is Michael McGerr. Friday, April 23 "The Colonial Clinic: Innovation and Discipline in the Military and Naval Hospitals of the East Indiana Company." Mark Harrison, Oxford University and the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. 1:30 PM, DAR, IMU. Mark Harrison has published widely on the history of disease and medicine, especially in relation to the history of war and imperialism from the 17th to the 20th centuries. He currently is working on a history of medicine and British imperialism, c. 1700-1850. His many publications include Public Health in British India (1994), Climate and Constitutions: Health, Race, Environment, and British Imperialism in India, 1600-1850 (1999) and two edited collections: Medicine and Modern Warfare (1999) and Health, Medicine and Empire: Perspectives on Colonial India (2001) For more information about the series, contact Ellen Dwyer (dwyer@indiana.edu) or Ann Carmichael (carmicha@indiana.edu).