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2012-2013:
Benjamin Breen, "Tropical Transplantations: Medicine, Globalization and the Drug Trade in the Portuguese and British Empires, 1640-1750"
2011-2012:
Katherine Arner, "Making Yellow Fever Atlantic: Relocating America in the Geopolitics of Disease and Disease Knowledge in the Atlantic World, 1790-1830"
2010-2011:
Heiko Pollmeier, "The German Medical Community in New York City, 1857-1917. Networks -- Media -- Institutions."
2009-2010:
Andrew Curran, "The Anatomy of Blackness: Preternatural Histories of the African in the French Enlightenment Life Sciences"
2008-2009:
Adrienne Phelps Coco, "A Brooklyn Enigma: The Controversial Disabilities and Mystical Abilities of Mollie Fancher"
2007-2008:
Delia Gavrus, "The Crisis in Neurology, 1920-1940: The Rhetoric of Therapeutic Superiority in the Construction of Professional Boundaries"
2006-2007:
Frederick W. Gibbs, "The Natural Philosophy of Poison: Medical Treatises on Poison and Their Influence Circa 1300-1600"
2005-2006:
Daniel Margocsy, “The Commerce of Natural Philosophy: Scientific Secrets in Early Modern Europe”
2004-2005:
Britta McEwen, “Viennese Sexual Knowledge as Science and Social Reform Movement, 1900-1934”
2003-2004:
Sarah Tracy, “From Vice to Disease: Alcoholism in America, 1870-1920”
2002-2003:
Lynda Ellen Payne, "Bodysnatching, Dissecting, and the Sensibilities of Medical Men in Eighteenth-Century Britain"
2001-2002:
Kenton Kroker, "The First Modern Plague? An Historical Examination of the Role of Epidemic Encephalitis in the Development of Neurology and Public Health in the United States, 1919-1939"
2000-2001:
Carla Bittel, "'The Creation of a Scientific Spirit': Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Politics of Gender and Science in Late Nineteenth-Century New York"
1999-2000:
Eric Schneider, "Drugs and Drug Use in Mid-Twentieth Century New York"
2012-2103:
Alessandro Laverda, "Anatomy and Myth: The Contest between Apollo and Marsyas in Anatomy Books of the Early Modern Age in Europe"
2011-2012:
Cindy Stelmackowich, "Picturing Pathology: Morbid Anatomy Diagrams, Pathological Atlases and Disease, 1800-1840"
2010-2011:
No Helfand Fellow
2009-2010:
No Helfand Fellow
2008-2009:
Kelina Gotman, "Zooanthropy"
2007-2008:
Marni Kessler, "Anxiety and the Maternal Substitute: Edgar Degas' New Orleans Paintings"
2006-2007:
Mary Hunter, "Shared Visions? Representations of Bodies in late Nineteenth Century American and French Art and Medicine"
2005-2006:
Sabine Arnaud, “Hysteria: Fictions and Politics of Truths”
2004-2005:
Bryan Waterman, “Writing Yellow Fever in Late-Eighteenth-Century New York City”
2003-2004:
Angus Fletcher, “Paracelsian Medicine and the Experience of Bodily Consciousness in Seventeenth-Century English Literature”
2002-2003:
Vanessa Ryan, "The Material Mind: Victorian Physiological Psychology and the Narration of Consciousness"
2001-2002:
Michael R. Blackie, "The Sensorium in Splints: Some Permutations of S. Weir Mitchell's Use of Rest"
2000-2001:
Richard A. Barney, "Eyeing the Divine: The Physiology of the Sublime in Early Modern Britain"
1999-2000:
Carolyn Thomas de la Pena, "Powering the Body"
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Dr. Tom F. Lue Receives 2013 Ferdinand C. Valentine Award
Tom F. Lue, MD, FACS, was awarded the 2013 Ferdinand C. Valentine Award during a reception at NYAM on April 10, 2013. Dr. Lue is Professor and Vice-Chair of Urology, Emil Tanagho Endowed Chair in Clinical Urology, and Founder of the Knuppe Molecular Urology Laboratory at the University of California at San Francisco.
Jean Bolognia Delivers the 2013 Howard Fox Memorial Lecture
Jean L. Bolognia, MD, Professor of Dermatology, Vice Chair of Clinical Affairs, and Director of the Pigmented Lesion Clinic at Yale University School of Medicine, delivered the 2013 Howard Fox Memorial Lecture on April 26, 2013 at NYAM. The subject of her lecture, which was sponsored by the NYAM Section on Dermatology, was Signature Nevi. Patients who have an increased number of moles tend to be consistent in the type of mole they produce, and the repetitive type for a given patient is that patient’s signature nevus. Patients with numerous melanocytic nevi, i.e., those who are moley, often produce a particular type of nevus, a so-called signature nevus.
