------------ Forwarded Message begins here ------------ From: "D. George Joseph" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 15:25:14 -0500 (EST) To: Undisclosed recipients:; Subject: 1997 JAS in Hist of Biology and Medicine ** PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY TO INTERESTED STUDENTS AND COLLEAGUES ** The 1997 Joint Atlantic Seminar in the History of Biology and Medicine--the 33rd Annual Meeting--will be hosted 11-13 April 1997 by the Section of the History of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine. The meeting will begin on Friday evening with a reception, with presentation of papers on Saturday and on Sunday morning; the conference banquet will be held on Saturday evening. Program, registration, and housing information can be obtained by mailing your postal (snail-mail) address to [log in to unmask] The papers scheduled for presentation at this year's meeting are: __________________________________________________________________ SESSION #1 -- Nineteenth-Century Biology: Cell Theory "Individuality in Matthias Schleiden's Cell Theory," Anne Mylott, Indiana University "Theodor Schwann and the Cell Theory: The Wrong Theory to the Correct Observation?," Ohad Parnes, Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science ___________________________________________________________________ SESSION #2 -- Defining the Normal in Biological Experimentation "The Normal, Emotional and Pathological: Constructing an Affective Standard for the Clinic and Laboratory," Otniel E. Dror, Princeton University "Defining Normality and Denying Variation," Lisa Gannett, University of Western Ontario "Seeing is Believing: Epidemiological Evidence and the Causes of Cancer, 1951-1981," Mark Parascandola, Cambridge University ___________________________________________________________________ SESSION #3 -- The Construction of Social Responses to Disease "Reframing a Sixteenth-Century Disease: The French Pox in Germany," Claudia Stein, University of Stuttgart "Factors Which Shaped the Vietnamese Response to Vaccination for Smallpox," Michele Thompson, University of Washington "Syphilis and the Imperial Outlook," Karol Weaver, Pennsylvania State University ___________________________________________________________________ SESSION #4 -- Twentieth-Century Biology: Forming New Traditions "Winston Churchill's Bowl of Turtle Soup: Archie Carr, Sea Turtles, and Conservation in the Caribbean," Frederick R. Davis, Yale University "Shedding Light on the Subject: Chemistry, Plant Physiology, and the Boundaries of Photosynthesis Research, 1920-1940," Jill Lazenby, University of Toronto ___________________________________________________________________ KEYNOTE LECTURE "Darwin, Marx, and Wagner: How Barzun Got It Wrong and Why Should Anybody Care?" Garland E. Allen, Washington University ___________________________________________________________________ SESSION #5 -- The Life of Science "Immunity and Its Other: Psychology, Anaphylaxis, and Eugenics in the Work of Charles Richet," Kenton Kroker, University of Toronto "Peter Medawar, William Henry Howell, and the Fraudulent Scientific Paper," James A. Marcum, Houghton College "Walter Charleton's Volte-Face on the Role of Fermentation in the 'Animal Oeconomy," William Tammone, Independent Scholar _________________________ 33rd Annual Meeting Joint Atlantic Seminar in History of Biology and Medicine 11-12-13 April 1997 Yale University School of Medicine Section of the History of Medicine and Science New Haven, Connecticut ________________________ Sponsored by: Section of the History of Medicine, Yale University Office of the Dean, Yale University School of Medicine Office of the Dean, Yale University Graduate School Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology . ------------ Forwarded Message ends here ------------