13th Annual History of Medicine Night

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 13th Annual History of Medicine and Public Health Night. Please see below for the presenters and their topics. We hope you can join us.

Presentations
James Alrassi, MD
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
The Tonsil Riots: An Examination of Miscalculated Disease Prevention

Rebecca Irvine, PhD student
Graduate Center, City University of New York
From Military Medicine to International Health: Malaria in Colonial and Postcolonial Iraq

Xi Kathy Chu, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Family Health Center at NYU Langone
Collateral Damage: the role of the fight on reproductive rights in the emerging STI epidemic in the United States

Avraham Kohanzadeh
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Tonsillectomy and Poliomyelitis: Development of Causality

Elisa Fang
NYU School of Medicine
Ethnography of Livia S. Wan, MD