Medical History and Bioethics
Department News
2008-2009
September 2008:
Walt Schalick and Monica Green (ASU) have received a grant from the NEH for "Disease and Disability in the Middle Ages," a summer seminar in London based at the Wellcome.
Walt Schalick and Julie Anderson (Manchester) have inaugurated a monograph series through Manchester University Press: Disability History: A Series. Submissions are welcome.
Arrivals and Departures
Susan E. Lederer, our new department chair, comes to us from Yale University. She may have been the first medical history graduate student here at the UW-Madison to have taken a field in bioethics (with Dan Wikler who also served on her dissertation committee). We are very happy to have Sue back with us and look forward to her interest in and contributions to medical curriculum reform and the power of a radical union of medicine and public health.
We are very pleased to welcome Walton Schalick to our department. Walt is joining the UW-Madison faculty in fall 2007 as assistant professor of medical history, orthopedics & rehabilitation, history of science, and pediatrics.
Warwick Anderson has left UW-Madison for University of Sydney where he will be University Research Professor in the History Department and the Centre on Values, Ethics, and the Law in Medicine. We will miss Warwick's creative intellect.
Mitman's classes and environmental film fest in the news, October 31: Tales from Planet Earth
is a three-day festival showcasing environmental films from around the world. This journey across the globe will explore how stories told through film shape our understanding of nature and inspire action on behalf of environmental justice and the diversity of life. All festival events are free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis. Donations help support the festival and will be accepted at the door.Visit the Tales From Planet Earth website.
Faculty in the News
Gregg Mitman was profiled in the Madison Capital Times on June 11, 2007.Awards and Honors
Warwick Anderson has won a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship for his project, "The science of race mixing in the twentieth century."Gregg Mitman helped write and is co-PI on a $3,000,000 NSF grant, “Vulnerability and Sustainability in Coupled Human-Natural Systems: An Integrative Traineeship in Sustainability and the Global Environment.”
Ronald Numbers has been elected to a four-year term (2005-2009) as president of the Division of History of Science and Technology of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science
Ronald Numbers was elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, in 2005.
Books
Susan Lederer, Flesh and Blood: Organ Transplantation and Blood Transfusion in 20th Century America, (New York: Oxford University Press:2008).
Ronald L. Numbers, Science and Christianity in Pulpit and Pew (New York: Oxford University Press, August 2007).
Gregg Mitman, Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007). Recently reviewed in the Seattle Times.
Judith A. Houck, Hot and Bothered: Women, Medicine and Menopause in Modern America (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006).
Ronald L. Numbers, The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design, rev. ed. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006). Ron added nearly 150 new pages to the revised edition of his classic work. The Financial Times selected the revised edition as a pick of the year.
Richard C. Keller, Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007).
Selected Articles and Essays
Richard C. Keller, “Clinician and Revolutionary: Frantz Fanon, Biography, and the History of Colonial Medicine,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine (forthcoming in 2007).Gregg Mitman, “Where Ecology, Nature, and Politics Meet: Reclaiming the Death of Nature"Isis 97 (2006): 496-504.
Walton O. Schalick, "Speculum medicinae: Reflections of a Medievalist-Clinician," in J. Duffin, ed. Clio in the Clinic (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), 27-45.
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