8:45
Opening
Remarks Local Arrangements Chair Dan Malleck
Room:
Thistle (TH) 245
9:00-10:00
Presidential
Address James Moran, “Fishing Naked for Carp:” Lunacy Commission Law in England
and the United States, 1320-1890"
Room:
TH 245
10:00-10:30 Refreshments/ Rafraîchissements
Outside TH 244
10:30
- 12:00
Session
1: Finding Difference
Room: TH 244
Moderator/
rapporteur: Jackie Duffin, Queen’s University
“From Nuns to
Natives: A Historical Examination of Chastity, Carcinoma, and Cervical Cancer
Screening Campaigns in Canada, 1930-1980” Jennifer Fraser, University of
Toronto*
“Tea Crazes in the Colonial Maghreb: The
Medicalization of a Drinking Habit” Nina Studer, University of Zürich
“Haitian
Community Responses to HIV/AIDS in Montréal, 1983-1993” Natalie L. Gravelle,
York University*
Session 2: Contexts, Containment, and Contest: Water
Therapies in Mental Institutions
Room: TH 147
Moderator/
rapporteur: James Moran, University of Prince Edward Island
“Six to
Eighteen Hours: Adoption of Bains Prolongés in North American Asylums” Jennifer
Bazar, Independent Scholar
“High-Tech
Hydriatics and Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins, 1913-1917: Intersections of Supply
and Demand, Sedation, and Scientific Skepticism” Susan Lamb, McGill University
“Showers and
Shocks: The Role of Hydrotherapy in Canada during the Era of the Somatic
Treatments” Brianne M. Collins, University of Calgary
12:00-1:30 Lunch/Dîner (On your own/indépendant(e))
Graduate Student Lunch
Room: TH 147
1:30-3:00
Session
3: Policy and Practice
Room: TH 244
Moderator/
rapporteur: Dan Malleck, Brock University
“Victim of its
Own Success: The Health League of Canada and Chronic Disease” Sara Wilmshurst,
University of Guelph*
“From Bombay to
Glace Bay: The Immigration of South Asian Physicians to Canada, c. 1961-1976”
David Wright, McGill University and
Sasha Mullally, University of New Brunswick
“The Thermometer
of the Cold War: Medical Journals and Transnational Currents of Health Policy,
1940-1975” Casey Hurrell, Queen’s University*
Session
4: Boundaries of Innovation
Room: TH 147
Moderator/ rapporteur: James Alsop, McMaster University
“Smallpox and
Vaccination in the Civil War South: The New Science of Bacteriology and the
Rise of Public Health Practice” Shauna Devine,
Western University
“’Suitable for
administration by midwives’: Analgesics and the medicalization of midwifery in
England and Wales, 1930-1950”
Gwenith Siobhan
Cross, Wilfrid Laurier
University *
“Atomic Age
Innovations in Medicine, Academia, and the Federal Government” Katherine
Zwicker, University of Saskatchewan
3:00-3:30 Refreshments/ Rafraîchissements
Outside
TH 244
3:30-5:00
Session
5: Medieval Mouths and Modernizing
Medicine
Room: TH 244
Moderator/ rapporteur: Mat Savelli, University of Pittsburgh
“Dental Care in
Some Medieval Texts” Carlinda Maria Fisher Mattos, Museu de Comunicação
Hipólito José da Costa
“The Spectacle
of the Dissected Body: Negotiating Borders and Disseminating Medical Knowledge
in the Dutch Republic” Anuradha Gobin, University of East Anglia
“Mask and Ritual
in Physician Culture and Identity: The Portrait of Medicine in Molière” Nicole
Mak, McGill University*
Session
6: Professional Borders
Room: TH 147
Moderator/
rapporteur: Sasha Mullally, University of New Brunswick
“Border Control:
Physicians, pharmacists, and defining the profession in Canada, 1860s-1920s”
Dan Malleck, Brock University
“Dissensions et
ajustements au sein d’une communauté médicale hétéroclite: le dépassement de
frontières, condition sine qua non de
la construction de l’institution médicale rioplatense au 19ème siècle” Nancy
Gonzalez-Salazar, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris
“A Missing Link:
The Professional Status of British Medics in World War Two” Cara Pedersen,
Brock University*
5:00-6:00
CSHM Annual General Meeting
Room: TH 244
Sunday 25 May/ Dimanche 25 mai
Note: Room locations for sessions change each day
9:00-10:30
Session 7: The Good Birth
Room: TH 255
Moderator/ rapporteur: Karen Trollope-Kumar, McMaster University
“The Good Birth
in the New South: Dr. Annie Alexander’s Obstetrical Practice, 1887-1929” James
Alsop, McMaster University
“The Meaning and
Utility of Pain in Childbirth: England, 1620-1740” Katherine A. Walker, St.
Jerome’s University at the University of Waterloo
“A
correspondence course in intelligent parturition: Canadian Letters to Dr.
Grantly Dick-Read, 1946-1956” Whitney Wood, Wilfrid Laurier University*
Session
8: Patients First?
Room: TH 256
Moderator/
rapporteur: Isabelle Perreault, Université d'Ottawa
“De la
dangerosité au risque : Idiots, aliénés incurables ou déments séniles en congé
d’essai, fin XIXe début XXe siècle” Marie-Claude Thifault, Université d'Ottawa
“Exploring Patient Encounter Narratives of Physicians, Nurses
and Medical Receptionists after Two Decades of a Paradigm of Patient-Centered
Care” Riaz Akseer, Brock University*
“La face cachée
des gens «ordinaires». Profil de la clientèle du département de psychiatrie de
l’Hôpital Montfort, 1976-2006”
Sandra Harrisson,
Université d’Ottawa
10:30-11:00
Refreshments/ Rafraîchissements
Outside TH 255
11:00-12:30 Paterson Lecture: Waltraud Ernst “Mental Health and Illness in Princely
India, c. 1860-1960”
Room TH 243
12:30-1:30 Lunch/Dîner (On your
own/indépendant(e))
1:30-3:00
Session
9: The Borders of Knowledge Transfer
in Early Modern England
Room: TH 255
Moderator/
rapporteur: Geoff Hudson, Northern Ontario School of Medicine
“The Newgate
Experiment of 1721: Medicine, Print, and the Criminal Body” Marisha Caswell,
Algoma University
“Imagination at
the Bedside: Conversatio and Counsel
in Early Modern Medicine” Stephen Pender, University of Windsor
“Surgical
Practitioners and the Formation and Dissemination of Medical Knowledge”
Samantha Sandassie, Queen’s University*
Session
10: Catching Cases
Room: TH 256
Moderator/ rapporteur: Tracy Penny Light, University of Waterloo
“Evidence for
Influenza in Canada during the Spring and Summer of 1918” Kandace Bogaert,
McMaster University
“Spare the Rod?
The Correctional Profession’s Response to Child Psychiatry in the 1950s” Erin
Lux, University of Strathclyde*
““Catching this
case early may be the best means of creating a useful life for this
child”: The rehabilitation of children
with polio-related disabilities in Manitoba in the post-war period” Leah Morton,
University of Winnipeg
3:00-3:30 Refreshments/ Rafraîchissements
Outside TH 255
3:30-5:30
Session
11: Psychiatry and Its Institutions
Room: TH 255
Moderator/
rapporteur: Susan Lamb, McGill University
“’Among the
finest institutional buildings on the continent’: Optimism and Celebration at
the Opening of the Weyburn Mental Hospital” Alex Deighton, University of
Saskatchewan*
“Admissions to a
Saskatchewan Asylum, 1921–1948, and the Not-So-Diagnostic and Statistical
Manual” Alexander Dyck, University of Saskatchewan*
“Sexual
Psychiatry and Cold War Paradigms” Frances Reilly, University of Saskatchewan*
“Mental Illness
at the Geopolitical Crossroads: Yugoslavia and the Transmission of Psychiatric
Knowledge” Mat Savelli, University of Pittsburgh
6:00-7:00 CSHM Book Launch and Champagne Reception/ Lancement de livres SCHM avec
réception au champagne
Room: Sankey Chamber
7:00 CSHM Dinner/ Souper SCHM
Room: Pond Inlet
Monday 26 May /
Lundi 26 mai
Note:
Room locations for sessions change each day
9:00-10:30
Session 12: Medical Malpractice, Vaccines, Contraception
and Abortion: Boundaries in Canadian Social, Legal, and Medical History
Room: (Academic South) AS 217
Moderator/
rapporteur: Peter Twohig, Saint Mary’s University
“The Politics of
Choice: Aboriginal Women, Doctors, and Modern Birth Control in the 1970s” Erika
Dyck, University of Saskatchewan
“Doctors versus
Councillors: A Legal History of Smallpox Vaccination in Ontario, 1882–1920”
Ubaka Ogbogu, University of Alberta
“Medical
Malpractice in Canada: Doctors, Lawyers, and the Creation of the Canadian
Medical Protective Association, 1890-1914” Blake Brown, Saint Mary’s University
Joint
Session CHA - Financial support for this session was provided by the Federation
for the Humanities and Social Sciences
10:30-11:00 Refreshments/ Rafraîchissements
Outside AS 217
11:00-12:30
Session 13: Making Better Citizens
Room: AS 217
Moderator/
rapporteur: Marie-Claude Thifault, Université d'Ottawa
“Expertise ou
amateurisme ? L’enseignement de la nutrition à l’École ménagère provinciale de
Montréal (1906-1942)” Caroline Durand, Université Trent
“‘The Beauty of the Cure’: Visual Discourses as
Boundaries in Medicine, 1900-2000” Tracy Penny Light, University
of Waterloo
“Bonheur, beauté, intelligence, énergie,
efficacité... L'argumentaire en éducation alimentaire au Québec, 1930-1980” François Guérard, Université du
Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC)
12 :30 Segall
Prize Announcement/ Remise du prix
Segall
The H.N. Segall
Prize recognizes the best student paper presented at the annual conference of
the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine
* indicates eligibility for Segall prize /
indique l’admissibilité au prix Segall
La Société remercie l’organisme
Associated Medical Services Inc. et la Fédération canadienne des sciences
humaines pour leur généreux soutien financier.
The Society thanks Associated Medical
Services Inc. and the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social
Sciences for their generous financial support.