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Register for “Carry On: The Depiction of Post-War Disability in Government Propaganda and Consumer Culture, 1919-1925”

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About this Event

Please join the Medical Heritage Library, Inc. for the first in our Spring Speaker Series!

When
Fri, March 26, 2021
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT

How to Register
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/spring-speaker-series-nora-oneill-tickets-143307467493

After World War I, as 200,000 military members returned home with a disability, the US government standardized rehabilitation programs for the first time. The consolidation of rehabilitative services by the government resulted in a consistent definition of disability and ability, one which was intimately tied to a veteran’s economic contribution to their family and community.

By combining clinical treatment and work training within these programs, the government promised a return to economic independence. This promise was communicated through government propaganda geared to veterans, including the magazine Coming Back (1919) and Carry On (1919-1918).

Though the government promised a reformulation of disability as compatible with independence, rehabilitation failed to take into account the lived experiences of all disabled veterans, including veterans of color, women, and people who developed disabilities other than amputations. Disability, coupled with the valor associated with Great War veterans, was redefined to include the possibility of achieving independence through paid work, and yet this independence was only ascribed to those who government officials believed could succeed in their programs: white men with physical disabilities.

Speaker

Nora O’Neill is a first-year medical student at Yale School of Medicine. She is pursuing a combined MD-PhD in the History of Science and Medicine. In 2018, she completed her bachelor’s degree from Harvard University in the History of Science, focusing on the intersection of disability rights and reproductive justice. At Yale, she plans to study the social constructions of disability in medical and social activist spaces. As a physician historian, she hopes to engage in patient-centered care while also unraveling the historical complexities of the patient-doctor relationship.

Registration is required. Please visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/spring-speaker-series-nora-oneill-tickets-143307467493.

Registrants will receive a Zoom link the day before the event.

Co-sponsored by the Center for the History of Medicine, Francis A. Countway Library

From Our Partners: J Worth Estes Lecture

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Center for the History of Medicine, Countway Library
is pleased to share information about the Boston Medical Library’s 17th Annual J. Worth Estes Lecture
1980s Biological Revolution in Psychiatry: What Really Happened, and What Really Happened Next, with Anne Harrington, Ph.D.

Dr. Harrington is the Franklin L. Ford Professor  of the History of Science, Harvard University, and is the author of four books, including Re-enchanted Science, The Cure Within, and Mind Fixers.
 
Register here.

The 1980’s saw a rapid pivot away from previously dominant psychoanalytic and social science perspectives in psychiatry towards a “medical model.” However, the standard understanding as to why this occurred is wrong. Revolution was declared back then, but not because there had been scientific breakthroughs. We need a new and better understanding of what really happened in the 1980s. Those ideas have directly shaped the fraught world of psychiatrty with which we live today.

Questions about this event? Please contact the Boston Medical Library.

Session 1 Redux!

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Last week any of you who tried to click on the video for the first session of our 2020 conference may have noticed quite a few technical difficulties.

We’d like to apologize for those — we’re new to offering content on YouTube — and offer this corrected version!

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: LAMPHHS 2021

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Change is constant. Whether socio-cultural, economic, scientific, political, ecological, environmental, or technological, drivers of change — and change itself — are critical to how we function in our roles as librarians, archivists, and museum professionals.

In the realm of professional practice, sometimes these changes are so considerable they fundamentally challenge existing concepts of who we are as professionals, what the impact of our work is, and how we engage our constituencies. They represent a paradigm shift in our underlying assumptions and affect the why of what we do.

This year, Librarians, Archivists, and Museum Professions in the History of the Health Sciences (LAMPHHS) invites you to share how you are challenging or changing practice to meet institutional and patron needs. 

We welcome all proposals, but are especially interested in those that address fundamental changes in the way library, archival, and museum professionals are engaging with:

·         Deprecated notions of neutrality as they apply to acquiring, describing, accessing, and exhibiting special collections, archives, and museum collections

·         Collections access and expectations of privacy

·         Legacies of racism, sexism, and other forms of anti-inclusivity in our home organizations

·         Collaborative or non-custodial collecting

·         Contested collections, problematic histories, and creating a cultural environment relevant to a diverse public. 

Session Formats: The Program Committee encourages submission of proposals that may include, but are not limited to, the following formats: 

·         Individual Presentations: Speakers should expect to give a presentation of no more than 15 minutes followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Individual papers will be combined into panels.

·         Panel Discussion: Open session with a panel of three (3) to four (4) individuals informally discussing a variety of theories or perspectives on the given topic(s). Please confirm participation with all panelists before submitting the panel proposal.

·         Traditional: Open session with two to three fully prepared papers of fifteen (15) minutes each and a comment and discussion period after the presentations.

·         Special Focus Session: 50-minute session designed to highlight innovative archives or museum programs, new techniques, and research projects. Audience participation is encouraged.

Please submit your proposal via this submission form: https://forms.gle/DK44fneSbX6VB7sj7

The deadline for submitting session proposals is Friday, February 25, 2021.  

This will be a virtual conference.

You must be a LAMPHHS member to submit a proposal. Not a member? Join for only $15.00 via http://iis-exhibits.library.ucla.edu/alhhs/membership.html.

If you have any questions please email emily_gustainis@hms.harvard.edu. 

2021 Program Committee:

Emily Novak Gustainis, Harvard Medical School

Brandon Pieczko, Indiana University School of Medicine

Ashlynn Rickord, Public Health Museum

Paula Summerly, University of Texas Medical Branch

From Our Partners: ‘The Fourth Estate in Medicine’: The History of the Medical Journal and the Medical Profession in the United States, 1797-Present’

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This Thursday, check out the fourth (and final) lecture of the Fall 2020 Colloquium on the History of Psychiatry and Medicine:

‘The Fourth Estate in Medicine’: The History of the Medical Journal and the Medical Profession in the United States, 1797-Present’ with speaker Scott H. Podolsky, M.D., Director of the Center for the History of Medicine, Countway Library, and Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Podolsky is a historian of 19th- and 20th-century therapeutics and medical evolution, with a focus on the history of antibiotics, the evolving authority of the controlled clinical trial, and relationships among physicians, medical journals, the pharmaceutical industry, and governmental agencies.

It is from 4:00-5:30 on Zoom: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/94358234620?pwd=M2pIOEh5ajc3dVczUXoyRThPdjdwUT09. No registration required.