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| Dr. Andrea Tone |
The Bilson lecture, held every two years, honours the late Professor Geoffrey Bilson, a specialist in
American Colonial History and Canadian Medical History. He also wrote
children's historical fiction. The focus this year is on the history of medicine.
The History Department is delighted to welcome Dr. Andrea Tone (McGill) as our Bilson Lecturer. She will be speaking on “The Curious Case of Val
Orlikow: Cold War Psychiatry and the CIA”.
As Canada Research Chair in the
Social History of Medicine at McGill
University, Dr. Tone's scholarship explores women and health,
medical technology, sexuality, psychiatry, and industry. She has written and edited several books, including The Age of Anxiety: A History of America’s Turbulent
Affair with Tranquilizers (2009), Medicating Modern America:
Prescription Drugs in History, with Elizabeth Siegel Watkins (2007), and Devices
and Desires: A History of Contraceptives in America (2001). Currently, Dr.
Tone's research (funded by a grant from the Canadian Institutes of
Health Research) focuses on the CIA and Cold War psychiatry.
Her work has been featured on
ABC News, PBS, National Public Radio, the CBC, the History Channel, Newsweek,
Macleans, and the New York Times.
In 2011, Dr. Tone received the American Psychiatric Association’s
Benjamin Rush Award for her contributions to the history of psychiatry.
Professor Tone’s visit to the University
of Saskatchewan is supported by the
Geoffrey Bilson Memorial Trust Fund, the Department of History, the Humanities
Research Unit, the Canada Research Chair, History of Medicine, the College of Arts
and Science, and the College
of Medicine.
The Bilson Lecture is open to
the public. Everyone is welcome.
Thursday, October 6
7 p.m.
Arts 241
University of Saskatchewan
Reception to Follow
