AAHM
Discussion on Exhibiting Influenza
Just wanted to let you all know about a discussion of what to include in an influenza exhibit over at the other blog I manage for Women Historians of Medicine, a special interest group of American Association for the History of Medicine. Please make comments there.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )My serious article on swine flu
Is now up at History News Network. Enjoy!
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Blogging the AAHM Part I: Sigerist Circle
This is my first post on this past weekend’s AAHM meeting, and I’m starting with the pre-meeting of the Sigerist Circle. The topic of this year was the PBS documentary, “Forgotten Ellis Island.” This is a very engaging documentary and I intend to use it when I teach my history of medicine/public health course in [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )That ’70s Flu, or Knitting Clio’s Memories of the Ford Administration
As one might expect, the hot topic of conversation at this weekend’s meeting of the AAHM was the current swine flu epidemic. As I watched CNN and read newspaper reports, my mind went back not to the 1918-19 epidemic, but the Ford administration. At that time, President Ford was ridiculed for mobilizing a nationwide effort [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )AAHM continued
I’m slowly getting caught up on all the stuff (i.e. student papers) that accumulated while I was at the conference, so now have a bit of time to write about the AAHM meeting. Today’s entry is on the women historian’s breakfast. We started off with a presenation by John Erlen on the European [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )AAHM: Day One
Well, I’m here at the AAHM meeting in Rochester, NY taking a bit of a break from sessions to write something about the first full day of events. I drove here yesterday, hoping to get here in time for the Sigerist Circle panel at 2pm. Unfortunately, I miscalculated (took 6 hours not five!) [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Knitting in Meetings
I just read a post about attending faculty meetings over at Tenured Radical. I was glad to see her confirm that it’s okay to knit during meetings, ["knitting is actually a form of listening in my book, although keep the clicking down if you can"] That’s certainly how I made it through seemingly [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )AAHM Annual Meeting: Women’s Breakfast
This past weekend I attended the annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine in Montreal, Quebec, where I presided over the women’s breakfast and gave a session on using digital history for history of medicine and health sciences.
The women’s breakfast had the largest turnout ever — at least eighty people showed [...]
