of

The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

 

and

 

 The American Philosophical Society, The Library Company of Philadelphia, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, The National Library of Medicine, The McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Section on Medical History of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia

 

present a

 

Conference on Health and Medicine

in the Era of Lewis & Clark

 

November 4-6, 2004

 

This conference is free and open to all.  Major support has also been provided by the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, and Arena Program Management Group, LLC (list complete as of May 10, 2004).

 

Thursday evening, November 4 (American Philosophical Society)

 

              5:30 - reception

  6:30 - dinner for invited guests and subscribers

 

  7:30 - keynote lecture (speaker to be announced)

 

             

Friday, November 5 (College of Physicians)

 

              8:15 - coffee and sweet rolls

              8:45 - greetings

           

  9:00 - session I: Theory

Michael L. Dorn, PhD (Disability Studies, Temple University)

 "Enlightenment Geography and the West: American Responses to Constantin Volney's View of the Climate and Soil of the United States."

James R. Fleming, PhD (Science, Technology, and Society, Colby College)

"Climate, Cultivation, and Health in Early America."

Richard J. Kahn, MD ( Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School)

"Noah Webster- Epidemiologist Revisited: The Publication of A Brief History of Epidemic and Pestilential Diseases, 1799."

           

10:45 - coffee break

 

11:15 - session II: Materia Medica

Michael A. Flannery, MA, MLS (Lister Hill Library, University of Alabama at Birmingham), and Timothy Lee Pennycuff, MLS (University Archivist, University of Alabama at Birmingham)

"Medical Botany in the American West, 1787-1830."

Gregory Higby, PhD (Director, American Institute of the History of Pharmacy)  

"Key to Medicine Chests: Philadelphia and the Pharmaceutical Trade in the Early American Republic."

Renate Wilson, PhD (Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University)

"The Linnaeus Americanus of the New Republic: Gotthilf Heinrich Mühlenberg and His Transatlantic Network."

 

              1:00 - break for lunch and tour of Mütter Museum

 

              1:30 - session III: Gender and Lewis & Clark

Elizabeth Alexander, PhD (History, Texas Wesleyan University), and James Alexander, MD, FACS

 "'The Indian Woman Verry Bad . . .': Sacagawea's Illness at the Great Falls of the Missouri."

Peter Kastor, PhD (American Culture, Washington University), and Conovery Valencius, PhD (History, Washington University)

"Sacagawea's 'Cold': Intimations of Pregnancy on the Lewis & Clark Expedition."

Jacquelyn Miller, PhD (History, Seattle University)

"Narratives of Manhood: Exploring the Language of Health and Sickness in the Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition."

 

3:15 - two parallel sessions

 

session IVA: Seminar organized by the McNeil Center for Early American Studies (University of Pennsylvania)

Sarah Knott, DPhil (History, Indiana University)

"Benjamin Rush's Ferment: Enlightenment Medicine and Republican Citizenship in the New Republic." (Pre-circulated paper)

 

session IVB: Health Care without Doctors: on the Expedition and at Home

Nancy Webster on home health care and medical charity in Philadelphia, circa 1804

Bob Dorian on Medical Theory and Practice of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Bruce Paton on Benjamin Rush's instructions to Capt. Lewis, and three medical crises on the expedition

 

              5:15 - refreshments

 

 

Saturday, November 6 (Academy of Natural Sciences; College of Physicians)

 

              7:30 - continental breakfast (Academy of Natural Sciences)

 

  8:00 - "sneak preview," for conference attendees only, of the national traveling exhibit on the Lewis and Clark expedition (official opening time of exhibition is 9:00 AM).

 

  9:00 - walk from Academy of Natural Sciences to College of Physicians

 

  9:30 - session IV: Race and Republicanism

Paul Kopperman, PhD (History, Oregon State University)

"The Origins of the Questionnaire that Rush Gave to Lewis."

Jeffrey A. Mullins, PhD (History, St. Cloud State University)

"'The Distinction between the Human Being and the Brute': Race, Health, and Naturalism in the Medical Thought of the New Republic."

Nina Reid-Maroney, PhD (History, University of Windsor)

"Discovery and Revelation: Taking the Pulse of Benjamin Rush's Enlightenment."

 

11:15 - coffee break

 

            11:45 - session V: Mapping Bodies

Daniel Blackie (North American Studies, University of Helsinki)

"'Disability' in the Early American Republic."

Robert Cox, PhD (Keeper of Manuscripts, American Philosophical Society)

"At a Distance: Physiological Sympathy at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century."

Christopher Lawrence, MBChB, MSc, PhD (History of Medicine, University College London)

"Opening the Frontier, Opening the Body."

 

1:30 - luncheon workshop on privacy in historical research and in health care today

Max Cavitch, Ph.D. (English, University of Pennsylvania)

"Richard Nisbet's Privacy and Yours"

respondents [to be announced]

 

            3:30 - session VI: Urban Public Health

Ann Johnson, PhD (History, Fordham University)

"Engineering Clean Water in the Ages of Lewis and Clark."

Simon Newman, PhD (American Studies, University of Glasgow)

"Homes, Hospital and Almshouse: Medical Care & Treatment of the Philadelphia Poor in the Era of Lewis and Clark."

Carl Smith, PhD (American Studies, Northwestern University)

"The Philadelphia Waterworks and the Conception of Urban Public Health in Urbanizing America."

 

5:15 - coffee break

 

5:45 - concluding remarks on American health and medicine in 1804, Charles Rosenberg (History of Science, Harvard University)

 

6:30 - closing reception

 

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For further information, please contact Ed Morman (215-563-3737, ext 265; or [log in to unmask]).