SAHMS-Jackson, Mississippi
Conference Program March 12-14, 2015
Wine and Cheese Reception – 5:00-7:00 pm
Location TBA.
Exec Board Meeting: 7:00-8:00am (Location TBA)
Registration & Breakfast: 7:00-8:15am (Location TBA)
Keynote/Plenary Address: 8:15-9:15am (Location TBA)
Presentation and Exhibit: “Lights, Camera, Scalpel:
The Surgical Films of Dr. Hugh Gamble.”
Adam J. Carey, Archivist, American College of Surgeons
Break: 9:30-9:45am
Concurrent Sessions I: 9:30-11:00am (Locations TBA)
each is a 3-paper session
Negotiating Authority, Race & Treatment in Early
Modern Europe
Moderator: Dennis Doyle
“King of Terrors”: Smallpox and Renegotiating Political
Authority in the Eighteenth Century”
(Victoria Meyer, Ph.D., University of Arizona)
“Diagnosing Race: British Doctors and the Construction
of Race in West Africa, 1800-1860”
(John Rankin, Ph.D., East Tennessee State University)
“Bogus Drugs, Quackery, and Rivalry: The Role of the
Georgian Apothecary”
(Haley Russell, graduate student, Murray State
University)
Medical Experiments: Treatment, Campaigns & Ethics
Moderator: Robert Nesbit, , M.D., Professor Emeritus of
Surgery, Medical College of Georgia at GRU-Augusta,
GA
“Use of Malaria Therapy for Syphilis at Central State
Hospital”
(Sarah Halter, MA, Executive Director, Indiana Medical
History Museum)
“Campaigning for Animal Experimentation in California,
1915-1922”
(Karen Ross, Ph.D., Troy University)
“The Ethics of Self-Experimentation in Medicine”
(Steven Weiss, Ph.D., Georgia Regents University)
Confronting Disease in the 20th Century U.S.
Moderator: Carol Stamm, M.D., University of Colorado
School of Medicine
“Yellow Peril/Yellow Fever: Disease and Immigration”
(David Petriello, Ph.D., Caldwell University)
“Breathing Aluminum Dust for Health: McIntyre
Research Corporation and Hard Rock Miners in the TriState Mining Field, 1945-1954”
(Kirsten Lawson, Ph.D., Pittsburg State University)
“Inventing the March of Dimes: The National Foundation
for Infantile Paralysis after Polio”
(Lisa Pruitt, MSLS, Ph.D., Middle Tennessee State
University)
Break: 11:00-11:15am
Concurrent Sessions II: 11:15am-12:45pm (Locations
TBA) each is a 3-paper sessions
Diagnosing, Institutionalizing & Financing Mental Illness
in the 20th-Century South
Moderator: Jennifer Rogers, Ph.D. candidate, Iowa
State University
“Trends in Psychological Diagnoses in the 19th South
Carolina Lunatic Asylum”
(Clara Bertagnolli, graduate student, University of
Southern California)
“The Integration of Mississippi’s Institutions for People
with Intellectual Disabilities”
(Janice Brockley, Ph.D., Jackson State University)
“The Floyd Patterson House: Philanthropy and
Psychiatry in the Civil Rights Era, 1954-1964”
(Dennis Doyle, Ph.D., St. Louis College of Pharmacy)
Renaissance European Vitalism, Clap & Cures
Moderator: Wendy Turner, Ph.D., Georgia Regents
University
“The Demise of Vitalism: Serveto’s and Fernel’s “Vital
Spirit” and Harvey’s “Living Blood”
(James Marcum, MATS & Ph.D., and Ben Caputo,
student, Baylor University)
“Praise of the Clap: Neo-Latin Economia of Syphilis and
Gonorrhea”
(Miller Krause, graduate student, University of Florida)
“Fevers, Plagues, and Poisons in German Discourses of
Care, 1300-1650”
(Lance Lubelski, Ph.D. candidate, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign)
Manipulation, Materia Medica & Mistreatment in U.S.
Medical Education
Moderator: Michael Flannery, M.A., MSLS, University of
Alabama Birmingham)
“140 Years of Evolution: A Glance through the History of
Osteopathic Medicine in the United States”
(Selim Sheikh, OMS-III, William Carey University College
of Osteopathic Medicine)
“Divergent Disciplines: The Declining Relevance of
Botanical Studies in American Pharmaceutical
Education”
(Sarah Robertson, Ph.D. candidate, University of
California, San Francisco)
“Medical Student Mistreatment”
(Robert Nesbit, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Surgery,
Medical College of Georgia at GRU-Augusta, GA)
Lunch: 12:45-2:30pm (Details to follow)
Concurrent Sessions III: 2:30-4:30 (Locations TBA) each
is a 4-paper sessions
20th-Century Nursing Across the U.S.
Moderator: Barbara Wall, RN, FAAN, Ph.D., Barbara
Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing,
University of Pennsylvania
“They Came By the Thousands: The Experiences of
Public Health Nurses at Ellis Island from 1890-1920”
(Melissa Sherrod MSN, Ph.D., Texas Christian
University, & Nicholas Sherrod, RN, BSN, independent
scholar)
“Power of Partnerships: How Public Health Nurses
Partnered to Improve Access to Care for Blacks in the
South in the 1930s”
(LaShanda Brown Sell, Ph.D. candidate, Bjoring Center
for Nursing Historical Inquiry, University of Virginia)
“When Do the Little Dears Give Their Next
Performance?”: Ethics and Nursing Care in the Infant
Incubator Exhibit at Chicago’s Century of Progress
Exposition,1933-1934”
(Michelle Hehman, Ph.D. candidate, Bjoring Center for
Nursing Historical Inquiry, University of Virginia)
“Nurses, Migrant Workers, and the Great Depression,
1935-1941”
(Arlene Keeling, MSN, Ph.D., Centennial Distinguished
Professor of Nursing, Bjoring Center for Nursing
Historical Inquiry, University of Virginia)
Networking, TB, Flu &the D.O. in the 20th Century South
Moderator: John Michael Rankin, Ph.D., East
Tennessee State University
“New Medical Networks in the New South”
(Jennifer Rogers, Ph.D. candidate, Iowa State
University)
“Separate But (Un)equal: Tuberculosis Treatment in
Mississippi During the Jim Crow Era”
(Michael Trotter, M.D., & Ben Groves, OGME-1, Delta
Regional Medical Center)
“Influenza among Rural African-Americans in Texas,
1918-1919”
(Cherlyn Hodge, graduate student & Jim Higgins, Ph.D.,
University of Houston, Victoria)
“The History of Osteopathy in Mississippi”
(Jared Magee, OSM-III, William Carey University
College of Osteopathic Medicine)
C-Sections, Slavery, Cancer & Contraception in
Women’s Health
Moderator: Mary Gibson, RN, Ph.D., Bjoring Center for
Nursing Historical Inquiry, University of Virginia
“Performing Surgery to Save the Soul: Gender, Religion,
and Postmortem Cesarean Section in EighteenthCentury Milan”
(Jennifer Kosmin, graduate student, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill)
“Sisterhood of Shared Suffering: Enslaved Women as
Gynecological Surgical Subjects for J. Marion Sims in
Antebellum Alabama”
(Harriet Amos Doss, Ph.D., University of Alabama,
Birmingham)
“Understanding Breast Cancer through the Lens of
History”
(Clifford Pukel, M.D., PeaceHealth Southwest Hospital)
“Dutch Treat: Modern Emergency Contraception Began
in the Netherlands”
(Carol Stamm, M.D., University of Colorado School of
Medicine)
Annual Business Meeting: 4:30-5:30pm (Location TBA)
Banquet (with Keynote) 7:00-9:00pm (Location TBA)
Keynote: “A Yankee in King Arthur’s and King James’
Mississippi Court” (Douglas R. Bacon, M.A. & M.D.,
University of Mississippi Medical Center)
Keynote/Plenary Address: 8:15-9:15am (Location TBA)
Plenary Address: “James D. Hardy and the First Heart
and Lung Transplants at the University of Mississippi
Medical Center” (Marc E. Mitchell, M.D., University of
Mississippi Medical Center)
Break: 9:30-9:45am
Concurrent Sessions IV 9:30-11:00am (Locations TBA)
each is a 3-paper session
Renaissance Medicine: Textual Analysis & Narrative
Moderator: Michael Moran, M.D.????
“Illness, Madness, and the Death of Chambermaid
Raped by a Leper in 1385”
(Wendy Turner, Ph.D., Georgia Regents University)
“Dante and the Diviners: A Reference to Paralysis in the
XX Canto of the Inferno”
(Sara Agnelli, Ph.D. candidate, University of Florida)
“On the History of Medicine in Colonial Mexico: Some
Methodological Inquiries and Conclusions”
(Millie Gimmel, Ph.D., University of Tennessee)
U.S. Civil War: Nostalgia, Nursing & Crime
Moderator: LaShanda Brown Sell, Ph.D. candidate,
Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry, University
of Virginia
“Nursing in the American Civil War: The Importance of
Place”
(Barbra Wall, RN, FANN, Ph.D., Barbara Bates Center for
the Study of the History of Nursing, University of
Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Anne Kutney-Lee, RN,
Ph.D., Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History
of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania School of
Nursing, and Kathleen Rogers, graduate student,
Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of
Nursing, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing)
“Revisiting Nostalgia: Professional and Popular
Understanding of the Psychological Trauma of Ward
during the Civil War and the Spanish-American War”
(Rachel Levandoski, Ph.D. candidate, University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
“Carnival of Crime”
(Gregory Lande, D.O., Walter Reed National Military
Medical Center)
Historical & Modern Use of Libraries & Archives
Moderator: Misti Thornton, B.A., University of
Mississippi Medical Center
“To Support the Southern Medical Public”: The Medical
College of Georgia as a Southern Medico-Scientific
Information Agency 1828-1860”
(Brenton Stewart, Ph.D., LSU)
“Alfred Russell Wallace, the Later Years: A View from
His Library”
(Michael Flannery, M.A., MLIS, University of Alabama,
Birmingham)
“Nuts and Bolts of Planning and Displaying Archival
Resources on the Web”
(Mary Gibson, RN, Ph.D., Bjoring Center for Nursing
Historical Inquiry, University of Virginia)
Break: 11:00-11:15am
Concurrent Sessions V: 11:15am-12:45pm (Locations
TBA) each is a 3-paper session
Surveys, Segregation & Stigma in Institutions of Care
Moderator: Jim Higgins, Ph.D., University of Houston at
Victoria
“A Survey of the Causes of Feeble-mindedness:
Assessing Parents’ Answers on Intake Records”
(Brent Ruswick, Ph.D., West Chester University of
Pennsylvania & Elliott Simon, Ph.D., independent
scholar)
“Contagion at Beckomberga: The Spread of Stigma from
Patients to Places at a Swedish Mental Hospital”
(Kate Grauvogel, Ph.D. candidate, Indiana University,
Bloomington)
Public, Professionals & Health in 18th- and 19th-Century
U.S.
Moderator: Janice Blockley, Ph.D., Jacksonville State
University
“Sudden Death: Changing Causes of Death and Medical
Authority in Eighteenth-Century America”
(Kristin Traemper, Ph.D. candidate, Lehigh University)
“Personal Freedoms and Public Health: Creation of the
Arizona Territorial Board of Health”
(Michael Halpern, MPH, M.D., Ph.D., University of
Arizona)
“Observations on the Centenary College Medical
Curriculum 1841-1844”
(Ralph Didlake, Ph.D., University of Mississippi School
of Medicine)
Innovations and Failures in 20th Century Medicine
Moderator: Adam Davis, M.A., Community College of
Allegheny County
“The Influence of Pharmaceutical Commercialization on
Medicine’s Positive Embrace of Negative Results “
(Laura Seger, Ph.D. candidate, Indiana University,
Bloomington)
“Contributions of Soviet Science to the Viral Theory of
Carcinogenesis: Lev Zilber’s Discoveries during the Cold
War”
(Margaryta Tolchynska, student, Community College of
Allegheny County)
“Making Money from AIDS? Public-Private Partnerships
and the Failure of For-Profit AIDS Care in Houston, 19851987”
(Andrew Simpson, Ph.D., Duquesne University)
Concurrent Sessions VI: 2:30-4:30 (Locations TBA)
From Bioethics to Darwinian Medicine in 20th-Century
Healthcare
Moderator: Dr. Ralph Didlake, University of Mississippi
Medical Center
“Religious Refusals of Treatment by Adolescent
Patients”
(Jonathan Will, M.A., J.D., Mississippi College School of
Law)
“One Being My Father’s Daughter and My Nephew’s
Aunt: Lessons and Reflections 20 Years after Genetic
Counseling and Testing for Huntington’s Disease”
(Demetra Pappas, M.Sc., J.D., Ph.D., independent
scholar)
Historical Underpinning of U.S. Health Care Professional
Shortages, Related Ethical Problems & Possible
Solutions
Moderator: Andrew Simpson, Ph.D., Duquesne
University
“Financing of Graduate Medical Education: 1965 to the
Present”
(Stacey Tovino, J.D., Ph.D., UNLV)
“U.S. Reliance on Foreign Physicians and Nurses: The
Development of Visa Programs that Ignore Ethical
Concerns”
(Fatma Marouf, J.D., UNLV)
“Assisted Outpatient Treatment: Access and Coercion”
(Sarah Gordon, UNLV)
World Wars Health Care Personnel & Facilities
Moderator: Michael Halpern, M.D., University of Arizona
“The Sick and the Wounded Need You!” : Recruiting
American Medical Personnel during World War I”
(Katherine Johnson, M.D., University of Louisville)
“WWII U.S. Army Hospital Car #89456: Its Mission,
Rescue, and Renovation”
(Sharon Lee Butcher, MLS, MSO, independent scholar)
“Monica, the Whole World Knows We’re at War”: The
Nurses of Pearl Harbor, Hickam Field Hospital”
(Gwyneth Milbrath, MSN student, Bjoring Center for
Nursing Historical Inquiry, University of Virginia)
“Saving Limbs, Saving Lives: The Evolution of
Battlefield Medicine of the Last Forty Years”
(Mycol Santucci, student, Community College of
Allegheny County)
Postmortem 4:30-5:30pm (Location TBA)