14th Annual History of Medicine Night Part I

The NYAM Section on the History of Medicine and Public Health invites you to join us for a series of short presentations on the politics of disease prevention at the Fourteenth Annual History of Medicine and Public Health Night. Please see below for a list of presentors and their topics.

Irene Auteri, PhD, RN
Assistant Professor - Adelphi University College of Nursing and Public Health
Does the End Justify the Means? A Historical Analysis of the Willowbrook School Hepatitis Study, 1956-1971

Danelle M. Brown, MLA, SEA
Independent Scholar; TRUE Advisor (Total Resource Use & Efficiency: Zero Waste Certification Program)
Climate, Change, and Epidemics

Christopher Eads
Amateur Historian
"…In sanitary communication" - Yellow fever outbreaks as "local" epidemics

Peter Manu, MD
Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry - Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra
Therapeutic Messianism: From Belladonna for Heroin Withdrawal to Ivermectin for COVID-19 infection

Robert Vietrogoski
Special Collections in the History of Medicine - George F. Smith Library of the Health Sciences, Rutgers University Libraries
Mapping "Every Death from Preventable Disease" in Newark: Dr. Edgar Holden's Mortality and Sanitary Record of Newark, N.J. [from 1859 to 1879]