History of Medicine Seminar
Series, 2011-2012
Seminars are held at 4pm in the Club
Room
at the Faculty Club
September 22 Gayle Davis
(U of
Edinburgh)
‘Bulls,
Bastards, Baseness, and Bunk: Issues Surrounding Artificial Insemination in
1950s Scotland’
October 6 Andrea Tone
(U of McGill)
‘The
Curious Case of Val Orlikow: Cold War Psychiatry and the CIA’
November 10 Dominique Tobbell
(U of
Minnesota)
‘Political Pills: The Struggle for Prescription Drug Reform in
Recent U.S. History’
November 24 Leslie Baker
(U of
Saskatchewan)
‘Enabling
Eugenics: The role of the Massachusetts Halifax Health Commission in the
surveillance and improvement of the provincial population’
December TBA Maureen Lux
(U of Brock)
‘North Battleford Indian Hospital: Translating and Interpreting
Treaty Rights in the 1960s and 1970s’
January 19 Paul Hackett
(U of
Saskatchewan)
‘Inherent
Weakness: The Use of Genetic Explanations to Explain Excessive Aboriginal
Mortality’
February 16 Amy Sampson
(U of
Saskatchewan)
‘Social Work and Eugenics in Alberta, 1930-1970’
March 15 Jonathan Metzl
(U of
Vanderbilt)
‘The
Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease’
