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ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF
CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR
THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE/
LA SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE
D’HISTOIRE DE LA
MÉDECINE.
28-30 May 2016/ 28-30 mai
2016
University of Calgary
Calgary Alberta
Niitsitapi, Nakoda & Tsuut’ina Territories
CME-CPD Accreditation*
Mary-Ellen Kelm
* CPD details
This event is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the
Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and
Surgeons Canada, and approved by Queen’s University (Maximum number of
hours: 15). CFPC Affiliate Members (members whose specialty is not family
medicine) may count RCPSC credits toward their Mainpro credit requirements. All
other CFPC members may request individual consideration of Mainpro-M1 credits
for participating in RCPSC-accredited CPD activities or programs.
If you are interested in CPD(CME) contact J. Duffin ([email protected]) in
advance of or at the meeting. CME is $20 per MD registrant – payable at the
meeting.
The Canadian Society for the History of Medicine, Local Arrangements
Committee and Program Committee wish to thank:
• Associated Medical Services
• Alberta Medical Association
• Calgary Institute for the Humanities
• Canadian Historical Association
• Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science
• Department of History, University of Calgary
• Faculty of Arts, University of Calgary
• Congress Office, University of Calgary
• Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, keynote speaker fund,
conference assistants fund, interdisciplinary session fund
• The Heritage Park Historical Village
• And all our dedicated volunteers.
Conference Agenda
Friday/vendredi, May/mai 27, 2016
6pm – 9 pm
CSHM Executive Committee meeting (SS 819)
Saturday/samedi, May/mai 28, 2016
8:45 am to 9:00 am
Opening Remarks Local Arrangements Chair: Frank Stahnisch (ST 132)
9:00 am to 10:00 am
Presidential Address: Sasha Mullally, “Created for What Purpose, Produced
for What End?: Arts, Crafts and early Occupational Therapy, 1900-1930.” (ST
132)
10:00 am to 10:30 am
Refreshments
10:30 am to 12:00 pm
Session 1: Military Medicine (SS10)
Moderator/rapporteur: J.T.H. Connor (MUN)
Alison Treacy Bumstead (Calgary), “The Battle Behind the Battle: Allied Surgical
Planning for the Invasion of Normandy.”*
Andrew McEwen (Calgary), “Mallein as a Diagnostic Agent: Civil and Military
Applications in Canada, 1891-1921.”*
Andrea McKenzie (York), “Visual War Stories: Public and Private Memories of
Canadian Nurses during the Great War.”
10:30 am to 12:00 pm
Session 2: Diseases and Disease Concepts in History (ICT 121) Cosponsored with the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science.
Moderator/Rapporteur: Jackie Duffin (Queens)
Pierre-Olivier Méthot (Laval), “Are Diseases ‘Entities’ or ‘Processes’? Narratives
and Disease Concepts in Twentieth Century Medical History.”
Martina Schlünder (Toronto), “’In Reality Diseases Do Not Exist, Sick People
Do!’: Ludwik Fleck on the Concept of ‘Disease Entities’.”
Andrew Cunningham (Cambridge), “Should We Even Try to Identify Diseases in
the Past?”
Nicholas Binney (Exeter), “History as Tracking the Evolution of our Knowledge of
Disease.”
12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm to 3:00 pm
Session 3: Cultures of Medicine (ST132)
Moderator/rapporteur: Mary-Ellen Kelm (SFU)
James R. Wright Jr. (Alberta Children’s Hospital), “Pathological Specimen
Collections Derived from Commonwealth Casualties in the Great War.”
David Theodore (McGill), “That ‘70s Hospital: University Healthcare Centres
after Medicare.”
Erich Weidenhammer, (Toronto), “Exploring the Material Culture of Public
Health.”
Jacalyn Duffin & Joseph Pater (Queens), “Mrs. Robinson’s Revenge: Pete
Seeger and the Saskatchwan Medicare Song.”
1:30 pm to 3:00 pm
Session 4: British Naval Medicine, State Control, and Authority in the Long
Eighteenth Century (SS10)
Moderator/rapporteur: Whitney Wood (London)
Erin Spinney, (Saskatchewan) “Carers for the Sick or Drunken Accessories to
Desertion? Nursing at Plymouth and Haslar Naval Hospitals, 1790-1815.” *
Geoffrey Hudson (Northern Ontario School of Medicine), “Not Suffering Saints:
Mutiny in the Royal Greenwich Hospital, 1705-50.”
Matthew Neufeld (Saskatchewan), “The Birth of Biopolitics in Early Modern
England: Manning the Royal Navy: 1690-1710.”
1:30 pm to 3:00 pm
Session 5: Close Reading and Case Studies (SS12)
Moderator/rapporteur: Peter Twohig (SMU)
Isabelle Perreault (Ottawa) & Alex Gagnon (Montréal), “La dernière
représentation: Analyse littéraire et iconographique de la mise en scène de sa
propre mort au 20e siècle.”
Catherine Carstairs (Guelph), “Gordon Bates, the Health League of Canada and
the History of Public Health in Canada.”
Marie-Claude Thifault (Ottawa), “Le Parcours de Vie Improbable de ‘Françoise’:
Analyse Microhistorienne d’un Dossier Psychiatrique (1979-1999)
3:00 pm to 3:30 pm
Refreshments
3:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Session 6: Rural Health Care (SS10)
Moderator/rapporteur: Erika Dyck (Saskatchewan)
Leah Wiener (Simon Fraser University), “Health Policy and Medical Attendance
at Gogama, Ontario, 1927-57.”*
Marie Lebel, (Université de Hearst), Déhospitalisation, Langue et Périphérie:
Regard Socio-historique sur les Soins et Services de Santé Mentale Dans Le
Nord-est Ontarien.”
Katrina Ackerman, “’We were to remain unheard and unheard of’: Rural
Women’s Reproductive Health Care Activism in the Maritime Provinces.”
Noah E. Miller, “’They’re Always Lookin’ for the Bad Stuff’: Rediscovering the
Stories of Coqualeetza Indian Hospital.”*
3:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Session 7: After the war: reintegration and response (SS12)
Moderator/rapporteur: Geoffrey Hudson (Northern Ontario School of Medicine)
Michelle Filice (Wilfred Laurier), “’The Medical History of an Invalid’: Doctors,
Veterans and Disability Pensions, 1919-1939.”
Mikkel Dack (Calgary), “The Failed Purge: Denazification of the Health Services
and Medical Profession of Germany.”*
Corinne Doria (Sorbonne & Milan), “Lettres et récits d’aveugles de guerre. Entre
medical humanities et disability studies.”
5:00 pm to 6:00 pm
CSHM Annual General Meeting (ST 132)
Sunday, May 29, 2016
7:30 am to 9:00 am
Graduate Student Breakfast (ST 132)
Moderator: Frank Stahnisch (University of Calgary)
Michel Samy (University of Ottawa)
Brianne Collins (Ambrose College, Calgary)
Matt Oram (University of Calgary)
Erna Kurbegovic (University of Calgary)
Will Pratt (University of Lethbridge)
9:00 am to 10:30 am
Session 8: Professionalization and its Limits (SS10)
Moderator/rapporteur: James Moran (PEI)
Nancy Gonzalez-Salazar, (INED) “Des réseaux des charlatans et des médecins
en Uruguay: Une intrication des savoirs et pratiques à l’origine de l’éveil
médical national (1800 – 1860).”
Caroline Lieffers (Yale), “’How to Poison Children: Justus von Liebig’s Food for
Infants and the Laboratory’s Material Limits.”*
Dan Malleck (Brock), “’Masters of the field’: Constructing, negotiating, and
sustaining the professional authority of Nova Scotia’s pharmacists, 1876-1914.”
9:00 am to 10:30 am
Session 9: Women, health and the public good (SS 12)
Moderator/rapporteur: Susan L. Smith (Alberta)
Natasha Szuhan (Melbourne) “The North Kensington Women’s Welfare
Centre’s Medical Committee: Using Medicine and Science to Establish Early
Contraceptive Standards in Britain.”*
Cheryl Krasnick Warsh (Vancouver Island University), “Letters to Dr. Kelsey:
Thalidomide and the Quest for Good Science in the Nuclear Age.”
Erin Gallagher-Cohoon (Saskatchewan), “Infected Women and the Doctors
who Infected Them: Sexual Narratives and Silences in Dr. Cutler’s Records.”*
10:30 am to 11:00 am
Refreshments
11:00 am to 12:30 pm
Paterson Lecture: Elena Conis (Emory), “Vaccines, Pesticides, and the
Nature of Evidence.” (ST 132)
With financial support from the Associated Medical Services Inc. and the
Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Avec le soutien financier de
l’organisme Associated Medical Services Inc. et de la Fédération des sciences
humaines.
12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm to 3:00 pm
Session 10: Histories of Public Health Advocacy in Canada through the
lens of Public Health Associations (SS10)
Moderator/rapporteur: Mary-Ellen Kelm (SFU)
Kelsey Lucyk (Calgary), Frank Stahnisch (University of Calgary) & Lindsay
McLaren (University of Calgary), “The History of Advocacy Around the Social
Determinants of Health in Canada, 1910-2010: Findings from the Canadian
Public Health Association.”*
Isabel Ciok (Calgary), Rogelio Velez Mendoza (University of Calgary), Kelsey
Lucyk (University of Calgary), Lindsay McLaren (University of Calgary), “The
History of the Alberta Public Health Association, 1943-2015: Lessons for
Contemporary Public Health Advocacy.”*
Lindsay McLaren (Calgary), “Community Water Fluoridation in Alberta: the
Historical Role of Public Health advocacy, 1950-2015.”
1:30 pm to 3:00 pm
Session 11: (Dis)Abilities, Institutions and Youth (SS10)
Moderator/rapporteur: Megan Davies (York)
Joanna L. Pearce (York), “Unmeasured: Blindness and Medical Interventions in
Nineteenth Century Canada.”*
Tyler Hnatuk (York), “Classification and the Human Sciences at the Huronia
Regional Centre c1900-1925.” *
3:00 pm to 3:30 pm
Refreshments
3:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Session 12: Transnational networks in the Americas (SS12)
Moderator/rapporteur: Cheryl Krasnick Warsh (VIU)
Rogelio Velez Mendoza(Calgary), “Translating Health: The Colombian
Physician Merizalde’s Use of Nineteenth-Century European Medical
Knowledge.”*
Jane Jenkins,(St. Thomas University) “Re-Placing Canada’s Public Health
History: The New York Network in New Brunswick’s Public Health Reform.”
J.T.H. Connor (Memorial), “Thinking the Unthinkable? Dr. Frederick D. Mott,
Socialized Medicine, and Contemplating Canadian Medicare as a Yankee
Invention.”
David Wright (McGill) & Andrew Medeiros (McGill), “’The First on the Boats to
Leave’: The Life Stories of Émigré South African Doctors in Canada.”
3:30 to 5:30 pm
Session 13 Narrative, reform and history (SS12)
Moderator/rapporteur: Marie-Claude Thifault (Ottawa)
Alexandre Klein (Ottawa), “Camille Laurin, historien de la medicine? Retour sur
un project historiographique devenu outil de reform scientifique et
sociopolitique.”
Claire Cheetham (London), “Do Mortality Rates in the Early Modern City Mean
that Parents did not Invest in their Children?”
Malika Sager (Lausanne), “Histoire d’un livre: le cas de Naissance de la clinque
de Michel Foucault.”*
Emmanuel Delilli (Humboldt & CAPHES), “Écrire l’histoire de la psychiatrie
transculturelle au Canada exotisme,minorités et savants dans les récits de
pionniers et les premiers réseaux universitaires.”
5:45
Assemble at the Entrance of the Hotel Alma and board a yellow school bus to
attend the Book Launch, Champagne Reception and CSHM Dinner to be held
at the Heritage Park Historical Village.
6:15 pm to 7:00 pm
Book Launch and Champagne Reception (Heritage Park Historical Village)
7:00 pm
CSHM Dinner (Heritage Park Historical Village)
Monday, May 30, 2016
9:00 am to 10:30 am
Session 14: Personal Stories and Institutional Narratives from Germanspeaking Émigré Physicians, Scientists, and Academics between the
1930s and the 1960s (I) Co-sponsored with the Canadian Historical
Association.(ST 132)
Moderator/rapporteur: Lisa Panayotidis (Calgary)
Aleksandra Loewenau, “’Reason for Dismissal?- Jewish Faith’: Narratives’
Analysis of the SPSL Immigration Applications to North America by Germanspeaking Neurologists.”
Paul Stortz ((Calgary), “Refugee Professors at the University of Toronto,
1939-1946: Prosopographical and Historiographical Update.”
Guel Russell (Texas A&M), “The Unique and the Universal Features in
Translocation: The Case of Felix Haurowitz (Prague – Istanbul – Bloomington
1938-48)”
David Zimmerman (Victoria), “The Story of German-speaking Émigré
Academics Who Sought Refuge in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.”
9:00 am to 10:30 am
Session 15: Mental health, De-institutionalization and the family (SS10)
Moderator/rapporteur: Isabelle Perreault (Ottawa)
Maria Neagu (Ottawa), “Dire, dénoncer, démystifier.Une étude socioculturelle
de la presse écrite comme acteur social de la déhospitalisation psychiatrique
au Canada (1960-1980).”
Marcel Martel (York), ““I Need Help but Nobody Understands What I Say”:
Franco-Ontarians and Mental Health Services in French.”
Sandra Harrisson (Trois-Rivières), “Au-delá de l’épuisement familial: le
parcours transinstitutionnel de patients psychiatrisés.”*
Heather Stanley (Memorial), “’Never been the same since the baby was
born’: Stories of Postpartum Depression and Ideal Motherhood.”
10:30 am to 11:00 am
Refreshments
11:00 am to 12:30 pm
Session 16: Personal Stories and Institutional Narratives from Germanspeaking Émigré Physicians, Scientists, and Academics between the
1930s and the 1960s (II) Co-sponsored with the Canadian Historical
Association
Moderator/rapporteur: Maureen Lux (Brock)
Frank W. Stahnisch (Calgary), “’When the Story of a Physician’s Life Echoes
That of a Full Century’: The Multifarious Emigration Paths of GermanAmerican Neuroanatomist Hartwig Kuhlenbeck (1897-1984).”
Daniel Burston (Duquense), “Loss, Longing and Up-Rootedness in the Life
and Work of Montréal Psychiatrist Karl Stern.”
Erna Kurbegovic (Calgary), “’From German Youth to British Soldier to
Canadian Psychologist: The Journey of German Émigré Dr. Hugh Lytton
(1921-2002).”*
11:00 am to 12:30 pm
Session 17: Medical Research through national and transnational
networks (SS 10)
Moderator/rapporteur: Sasha Mullally (UNB)
Fedir V. Razumenko (Saskatchewan), “The Nexus of Canadian Cancer
Research: from the Commissions to the Institute, 1929-1951.”*
Matthew Oram (Calgary), “The Spring Grove Experiment: The Rise and Fall
of the United States’ Most Significant LSD Psychotherapy Research
Program.”
Eric Oosenbrug (York), “Medicine, McGill, and the Problem of Pain in the
Postwar Era.”*
Baptiste Baylac-Paouly (Institut Mérieux), “Le vaccine antiméningococcique
de l’Institut Mérieux: un dispositive thérapeutique au Carrefour de multiple
réseaux.”
11:00 am to 12:30 pm
Session 18: Reflection (ST132)
Moderator/rapporteur: James Moran (UPEI)
Robert Card & Man-Chiu Poon (Saskatchewan and Calgary), “A History of
the Development of Hemophilia Treatment Centers in Canada. Glory Days in
the 1970s followed by Grim Tragedies of “Tainted Blood” in the 1980s.”
Nicole Shedden (Saskatchewan), “Hemophilia Care in the 1980s and 1990s:
An Oral History of the Impact of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic on Healthcare
Providers and Hemophilia Treatment Centers in Canada”*
Carol Nash (Toronto), “Encouraging Self-Reflection in History of Medicine
Researchers.”
12:30 pm
Segall Prize announcement (ST 132)
* Indicates eligibility for Segall prize/indique l’admissibilité au prix Segall