Events

Film history is merged with psychiatric history seamlessly, to show how and why bad depictions of mind doctors (especially hypnotists) occur in early film, long before Hannibal Lecter burst upon the scene. Sharon Packer, MD will share her book on this topic, Cinema’s Sinister Psychiatrists – From Caligari to Hannibal.

At this event sponsored by the NYAM Section on Opthalmology, George A. Cioffi, MD, will speak on "Surgical Safety in Ophthalmology," and George J. Florakis, MD, will present on "Trends in Keratoplasty Techniques Over the Past Decade."

In this talk, Jessica Martucci discusses the ways in which the overt discussion about environmental contamination, toxic bodies and breastfeeding was just one part of a much deeper ideological debate over the "nature" of motherhood and infant feeding.  Martucci also explores the links between the resurgence of breastfeeding in America and the emergence of an environmental consciousness.

Sowande' Mustakeem, PhD, of Washington University in St. Louis will present a lecture entitled "Ghosts of the Atlantic: Trauma, Disease, and Murder in the Seafaring World of Slavery."

Gregg Mitman's talk will examine how American military and industrial expansion overseas -- witnessed firsthand by doctors in the American occupation of the Philippines, on the coffee plantations of the United Fruit Company, in the trenches of the Great War and on the rubber plantations of Firestone in Liberia -- depended upon and helped bring into view an ecological understanding of disease in the service of capital that would, in turn, become the scientific foundation upon which later narratives of ecological imperialism relied.

Dr. Stephen R. Cook will deliver the 2012 Millie & Richard Brock Lecture on the topic of "Community Strategies for Childhood Obesity: A Five-year Experience."

David Rosner and Geralad Markowitz will discuss a study at the Johns Hopkins Kennedy Krieger Institute in the 1990s where researchers were accused of engaging in unethical, even racist, research, as they attempted to find an inexpensive and "practical" means to ameliorate lead poisoning.  They use research about lead poisoning to explore the numerous dilemmas public health must face today as it tries to develop prevention strategies for emerging chronic illnesses linked to low levels of toxic exposure.

NYAM's Section on the History of Medicine and Public Health is pleased to announce its third annual NYAM History Night on April 8. Join us for an evening of short talks on topics in the history of medicine and public health presented by accomplished health professionals.