The Second Biennial History Research Day will take place this Friday, in Laurel Heights Room 376. Students and faculty of the History of Health Sciences Program will present in morning and afternoon sessions. The event is sponsored by the Graduate Students Association and the Medical Humanities Fund, and is open to all UCSF Community and Affiliates with an RSVP to [email protected]. Buffet lunch will be provided. The specific program is as follows:
10:30 Welcome
10:45-12:15 2011 Cohort
Frankie Griffin
Cleanliness, Disease, and Polio in San Francisco: The Local Context in a National Experience
Erika Langer
Sociable Science: Envisioning Postwar Medical Education at the University of California
Stephen Beitler
From Sensation to Experience: Changing Notions of Pain in Post-World War II America
12:15-1:15 Faculty
Akhil Mehra
Crisis of Good Intentions: The Modern History of Addiction, Chronic Pain, and the Opiates
Brian Dolan
Medical History for Medical Students
1:15-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:30 2009 Cohort
Jethro Hernández Berrones
Medicine in Revolution: Homeopathy and the Regulation of the Medical Profession, 1853-1953
Heather Dron
Reinterpreting the Risk of Congenital Malformation: New Directions in Research on Environmental Etiology and Chemical Exposure (1940-1971)
Kevin Moos
From Deaths to Dollars: Cost, Price and the World Health Organization’s Effort to Calculate the Value of Malaria Eradication, 1955-1980
3:30-3:45 Break
3:45-4:45 Faculty
Dorothy Porter
Parkinson’s Disease and Artistic Expression
Paul Blanc
The International Viscose Industry 1930-1945: Strategic Materiel and State-Sponsored Toxicity
5:00 Post-Symposium Cocktails at Swank (Presidio and California)
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