11th Annual History of Medicine and Public Health Night - Part II

Due to the number of quality submissions received, The NYAM Section on the History of Medicine and Public Health invites you to join us for a second special evening of selected short talks on the history of medicine and public health. Information and registration for Part I on February 27 can be found here. 

Meet the March 9 Presenters

Katelyn Angell
Associate Professor/Coordinator of Library Instruction
Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus
The Operation of Last Resort: A History of Lobotomy

Thomas Dodman, PhD, MA
Assistant Professor of French History
Columbia University
Nostalgia: The History of a Deadly Emotion

Jeffrey Levine, MD, AGSF, CMD, CWS-P
Associate Professor of Geriatric Medicine and Palliative Care
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Bed-Sore Treatment by Suspension: A Case Report from WWII

Nazanin Sullivan
PhD Candidate, Department of History
Yale University
The Witches of Warboys: Pediatric Illness, Physick and Possession in Early Modern England

Gregory M. Washington, RN, MSN
Bassett Memorial Hospital
For Black Nurses & Doctors During the Harlem Renaissance It Wasn’t Always About Pills, Scalpels, and Bedpans

Elisabeth M. Yang
PhD Candidate, Department of Childhood Studies
Rutgers University
Prescriptions for Home Nurseries as Medico-Moral Domains of American Infants in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Medical Manuals