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09/13/2004, SANDER L. GILMAN, Ph.D. (Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Medicine at the University of Illinois, Chicago),"Obesity, the Jews, and Psychoanalysis: On the Creation and Perpetuation of Stereotypes of Physical Difference"
Sander L. Gilman is a distinguished professor of the Liberal Arts and Medicine at the University of Illinois in Chicago and the director of the Humanities Laboratory. A cultural and literary historian, he is the author or editor of over seventy books. Professor Gilman was the first non-historian to receive the Mertes Prize of the German Historical Institute, and the first non-German-born humanist awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize. Dr. Gilman's many works include Fat Boys: A Slim Book (Nebraska 2004), Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery (Princeton 1999) and Smart Jews: The Construction of the Image of Jewish Superior Intelligence (Nebraska 1996).
Co-sponsored by Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, German Studies, Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Jewish Studies, Psychoanalytic Studies

09/23/2004, SUSAN L. ERIKSON, Ph.D. (Graduate School for International Studies, University of Denver), "Getting Political: Fighting Smarter for Global Health Justice"
Susan L. Erikson is a medical anthropologist who has worked in both under-resourced Africa and post-industrial Europe. During a first career in International Development, she worked in hospitals and schools in Sierra Leone providing primary health and education services; in US embassies in Turkey and (the former) Yugoslavia coordinating a trade and education program; and, later, in Washington, DC, for the Agency for International Development. As a global health educator, Dr. Erikson is interested not only in the causal biomedical agents of ill-health and disease, but also in the political, economic, social, and historical aspects of health phenomena. She is currently the director of the Global Health Affairs Program at University of Denver’s Graduate School for International Studies.
Co-sponsored by Anthropology Department

09/30/2004, SUSAN ANDERSON (Founder and Director, ArtReach Foundation) and BERNHARD KEMPLER, PH.D.
(Chair and Program Director, ArtReach Foundation), "The Arts as Healing Tools"
Susan Anderson is Executive Director of The ArtReach Foundation which she founded in 1999. The ArtReach Foundation (www.artreachfoundation.org) is a non-profit corporation which brings a training program to teachers located in international communities who have suffered as a result of war. This worldwide therapeutic program provides educational workshops which involve classroom activities which incorporate the expressive arts. Through visual art, drama and music expression, teachers begin to understand and use this form of non-verbal communication - one devoted to the process of healing the wounds of their country's next generation of young leaders.
Bernhard Kempler, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and President of the Board of The ArtReach Foundation. For 27 years Dr. Kempler was a member of the graduate faculty in the doctoral Clinical Psychology program at GSU and the Director of the Psychological Clinic of the Department of Psychology. He taught graduate courses in individual and group psychotherapy, in personality theory, abnormal psychology , and in imagination and symbolic processes. He has published numerous research and theoretical articles in professional journals and has offered lectures and workshops throughout the United States and internationally. Throughout his career Dr. Kempler has maintained a private practice of clinical psychology and psychotherapy.
The ArtReach program has recently completed a successful five year initiative in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and have currently trained 492 teachers in that region. Their next mission will be in collaboration with FAM (Femme Art Mediterranee) Rhodes, Greece, and to train teachers from Middle Eastern countries in ArtReach methodology.
Co-sponsored by Center for Public Health Preparedness and Research

10/14/2004, MIMI NICHTER, PH.D. (University of Arizona) ,"Gender Differences in Smoking Among College Students"
Mimi Nichter, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona where she holds joint appointments in the College of Public Health and in the Department of Family Studies and Human Development. Dr. Nichter has conducted longitudinal research on body image and dieting among adolescent girls, smoking as a weight control strategy, and tobacco use among college students. Her long term fieldwork is in South India where she has studied a range of issues on women and health. She is the author of numerous journal articles and has written two books: Fat Talk: What Girls and their Parents Say about Dieting (Harvard University Press, 2000) and Anthropology and International Health: Asian Case Studies (1996, with Mark Nichter). In 2002, she was awarded the Margaret Mead Award from the American Anthropological Association for her book, Fat Talk. Dr. Nichter is a Faculty Scholar with the Tobacco Etiology Research Network (TERN), funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In addition to research, she has worked in the development of prevention and intervention programs both nationally and internationally. She is presently a co-Principal Investigator working on a Fogarty grant aimed at developing culturally appropriate tobacco cessation in India and Indonesia. Dr. Nichter has worked as a consultant on women and health issues for international health organizations including WHO, USAID, UNICEF, and the Ford Foundation.
Abstract of talk:
The college years appear to be a time of increased risk to smoking initiation as well as movement into regular patterns of use. While several recent studies have documented changing patterns of tobacco use among college students, most research to date has been based on survey data. Researchers have found that approximately 30 percent of college students report smoking within the past 30 days. Notably, few gender differences have been reported in smoking prevalence.
Drawing on data from two studies of tobacco use among college students, this presentation will describe gender differences in smoking which emerged from ethnographic interviews. These studies were conducted as part of a transdisciplinary longitudinal study on smoking among college freshmen, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Tobacco Etiology Research Network (TERN). Differences in the perceived acceptability of smoking for females and males will be discussed and social meanings and functions of smoking across gender will be highlighted. Narrative data will be used to illustrate how issues of smoking identity differ for males and females. Implications for prevention and intervention will be discussed.
Co-sponsored by Anthropology Department

10/21/ 2004, SYDNEY A. HALPERN, Ph.D. (Department of Sociology, University of Illinois, Chicago), "Lesser Harms: The Morality of Risk in Medical Research"
Sydney A. Halpern is Professor of Sociology and Medical Humanities at University of Illinois at Chicago. Her recent work addresses the cultural, institutional and regulatory arrangements that shape the conduct of biomedical science. Her book, Lesser Harms: The Morality of Risk in Medical Research (University of Chicago Press, 2004), examines formal and informal rule making by scientific communities and the organizations that provide research support. In it, she explores professional constraints on clinical research and the impact of social, legal and cultural environments on the exercise of these controls. Currently, Halpern is recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Investigator Award in Health Policy Research for a project entitled, "Human Experimentation and Public Policy." In earlier scholarship, Halpern has addressed health-care activism, depictions of medical science in the press, the emergence of medical specialties, developments within academic medicine, evolving boundaries between health occupations, and directions in the field of medical sociology.
Co-sponsored by Sociology Department and Science & Society

01/20/2004, DAVID HEALY, MD, "Freud, The Second Coming?: The Making and Unmaking of Psychiatric Paradigms"
David Healy is Reader in Psychological Medicine at the University of Wales College of Medicine and Visiting Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He received his medical degree from University College Dublin and was a Clinical Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Former Secretary of the British Association for Psychopharmacology, Healy is author of more than 120 peer reviewed articles and more than a dozen books, including Let Them Eat Prozac, The Antidepressant Era, and The Creation of Psychopharmacology.
Co-Sponsored by: College of History, Technology, and Society at Georgia Institute of Technology

04/08/2004, JORDAN MESSLER, M.D. , (Instructor of Medicine, Hospital Medicine Unit, Emory Department of Medicine), "The History of Grady Hospital"

03/25/2004, LESLEY A. SHARP, PhD (Anthropology Dept., Barnard College), "The Danger of Public Grief: Defying the Taboo of Transplant Recipient-Donor Kin Communication in the Realm of Organ Transplantation in the United States"
A socio-cultural and medical anthropologist, Dr. Sharp's primary arenas for her work are sub-Saharan Africa (including the Indian Ocean) and numerous urban medical centers within the United States. Several key concerns drive her research: the symbolics of the body; gender, religious experience, and urban migration; and youth and the politics of culture. Since 1986, her overseas research has been based in a booming migrant town in northwest Madagascar. Within The Possessed and the Dispossessed (California, 1993) she explores the dynamics of gender, religious experience, and politico-economic power, a study framed by a primary interest in spirit mediumship and healing in an urban setting. A more recent work, The Sacrificed Generation: Youth, History, and the Colonized Mind in Madagascar (California, 2002), explores the political and historical consciousness of marginalized coastal youth who were schooled during this nation's socialist era. Since 1992, she has also been engaged in domestic research within the realm of organ transplantation. Key concerns include medical ideologies, biotechnologies, the commodification of bodies and their parts, and, finally, the relevance of these factors to personhood or the transformed self (where the subject may be a donor or organ recipient). Relevant publications include "The Commodification of the Body and its Parts" (Annual Review of Anthropology, 2000) and "Commodified Kin: Death, Mourning, and Competing Claims on the Bodies of Organ Donors in the United States" (American Anthropologist 2001).

04/15/2004, ALLAN YOUNG, PhD , "Freud, The Second Coming?: The Making and Unmaking of Psychiatric Paradigms", Anthropology and Social Science of Medicine, McGill University
Dr. Young’s earliest field work research was in highland Ethiopia, where he investigated indigenous medical beliefs and practices. He conducted subsequent research in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal, where he studied the practice of Ayurvedic medicine, and a WHO initiative aimed at integrating Ayurvedic medicine into the Nepali government's rural health program. Between 1986 and 1989, he conducted ethnographic research on PTSD at the Center for Stress Recovery, a pioneer clinical unit of the US Veterans Administration Medical System. For the past decade his research has focused on the history and ethnography of psychiatric research PTSD. A book based on this research, The Harmony of Illusions, was awarded the Wellcome Medal for research in medical anthropology. He is currently chairman of the Department of Social Studies of Medicine, in the Faculty of Medicine, at McGill University.
Co-Sponsored by: Anthropology Department

04/23/2004, ILLANA LÖWY (Centre de Recherche Sciences, Médecine, Santé et Société (INSERM, Paris), "French sex-hormones: medical gynecology and the use of progestogens in France"
Ilana Löwy is the author of many articles on the history of medicine, notably cancer, in France. She co-edited, with Jean-Paul Gaudillière, The Invisible Industrialist. Manufactures and the Production of Scientific Knowledge (Macmillan, 1998) and Heredity and Infection. The History of Disease Transmission (Routledge, 2001) Her most recent book in English is entitled Between Bench and Bedside. Science, Healing and Interleukin-2 in a Cancer Ward (Harvard University Press, 1996).
Co-Sponsored by Georgia Tech's History Science, and Technology Program

10/2/2003, NANCY KRIEGER, Ph.D., (Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health), "Class, racial/ethnic, and gender disparities in health: overview of The Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project".
Dr. Nancy Krieger's work focuses on social inequalities in health. She is a social epidemiologist, with a background in biochemistry, philosophy of science, history of public health, and involvement as an activist in issues involving social justice, science, and health. Her work involves: (a) etiologic studies of social inequalities in health, (b) methods for improving monitoring of social inequalities in health, and (c) development of theoretical frameworks to guide work on understanding and addressing social determinants of health.
Co-sponsored by Center for Research on Health Disparities.

10/3/2003, JOEL BRASLOW, MD, PhD, (Psychiatrist and Historian, University of California, Los Angeles), "Unable to make his way in life: Gender, lobotomy, and antipsychotic drugs, 1947-1965".
The 1950 birth of the first effective psychotropic drug (chlorpromazine, trade name Thorazine) and the subsequent demise of lobotomy mark the beginning of our contemporary psychopharmacological era, one in which all forms of psychological distress have become objects of biological intervention. Within a few short decades, the who (patients), why (symptoms), and what (biological treatments) of psychiatry shifted drastically. Prior to World War II, psychiatry was largely dedicated to the institutional care of severely ill psychotic patients, whose out-of-control behavior was treated, often involuntary, with somatic therapies that included lobotomy, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), and hydrotherapy. In the years that followed, psychiatrists increasingly treated non-psychotic patients who voluntarily sought state hospital treatment for internal psychological distress, often using the newly available psychotropic drugs as a biological cure for these newly diagnosable ailments. Using inpatient psychiatric records from California's Stockton State Hospital-records that span major shifts in what counted as psychiatric disease and cure-I explore the complex interrelationships between culture, psychiatric knowledge, mental illness, and therapeutics. In this examination I use gender as an exemplar of culture, looking at how doctors and, to a lesser extent, patients and families used ideas about gender to determine disease and to measure therapeutic success, first in the use of lobotomy on psychotic patients and later in the treatment (often with antipsychotic drugs) of the non-psychotic patients who began to populate state hospitals following World War II.

10/17/2003, DANIEL BENYSHEK, Ph.D., (Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada Las Vegas), "The type 2 diabetes 'thrifty genotype hypothesis': A critical examination"
While recent research has provided several alternative etiological models of type 2 diabetes, evolutionary genetic-based (i.e., "thrifty-genotype") hypotheses remain the central feature of most biomedical explanations regarding the staggering rates of diabetes among the world's highest prevalence populations. This is particularly surprising given that forty years after its original formulation, the fundamental assumptions that provide the basis of the thrifty-genotype hypothesis have yet to be rigorously examined. In fact, as will be shown, the bioarchaeological and ethnographic record provide little-to-no support for the central assumption of the thrifty genotype hypothesis-namely that feast and famine cycles are a regularly occurring and life-threatening problem for most foraging (hunter/gatherer) populations. The implications of this finding, especially with regard to current 'fetal origin' etiological models of type 2 diabetes, will also be discussed.

02/13/2003, ALICE DOMURAT DREGER (Michigan State University), "Measuring Phalluses, Gendering Babies, and Speaking to the Dead: What History Tells Us about Handling Intersex Today", Cosponsored by the Institute for Women's Studies

2/28/2003, JAMES DOBBINS, PhD (World Health Organization), "Why Would Anyone Object to Eradicating Polio?"

4/4/2003, HENRY C. POWELL, MD, (University of California, San Diego, Dept. of Pathology), "Neuropathies", Co-sponsored by Program in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology

4/8/2003, MICHAEL HUNTER, PhD, (School of History, Classics, and Archaeology, Birkbeck College, University of London and Director of the Robert Boyle Project, University of London), "The Virtuoso in Action: Robert Boyle and the Empirical Pursuit of the Supernatural", Co-sponsored by History Department and Science and Society

4/10/2003, SHIGEHISA KURIYAMA (International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto Japan), "Money and the Body," Cosponsored by Graduate Institute for the Liberal Arts

4/18/2003, ANDREA TONE, PhD, (History of Science and Technology, Georgia Tech), "The Gendered Mind: Women, Men, and the Rise of Tranquilizers in Modern Medicine"

09/19/2002, JESSICA GREGG, MD, PhD,(Internal Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University),"Risk Reduction Gone Awry: Sexual Strategies and the Use and Misuse of the Pap Smear in Northeastern Brazil"

10/04/2002, MAREN KLAWITER, Ph.D.,(History, Technology and Society, Georgia Institute of Technology),"Risk, Prevention and the Breast Cancer Continuum: The NCI, the FDA, Health Activism and the Pharmaceutical Industry"

10/21/2002,MATTHEW GUTMANN, PhD,(Brown University),"'Men-streaming' Gender? Questions for Gender and Development Policy in the 21st Century"

10/21/2002, EDWARD SHORTER, (University of Toronto),"Psychopharmacology and the Naming of Disease: How Did We Get into This Blind Alley?"

11/01/2002,CHANDRA MUKERJI,(Professor of Communication, Division of Social Sciences, University of California, San Diego),"The Built Environment and Modern State Power: Historical Roots and Contemporary Form" Cosponsored by Comparative History of Labor, Industry,
Technology and Society (SCHLITS)

11/14/2002, MARINA ROSEMAN,(Pacifica Graduate Institute) ,"Music, Medicine, Modernity:
Individual and Social Healings in a Rain Forest Under Siege" Co-Sponsored by the Department of Music

12/05/2002, DON SEEMAN, PhD,(Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Harvard University), "The Unbearable Weightiness of Being: Toward a Cultural Phenomenology of Religious Violence in Israel" Co-Sponsored by the Institute for Jewish Studies

01/29/2002, ELAINE SALO,(African Gender Institute, University of Cape Town; Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology, Emory University) ," 'Condoms are for the spares, not the besties': Negotiating adolescent sexuality and gender identity in a post-apartheid context" Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Public Scholarship.

03/22/2002, ROBERT DESOWITZ, PhD, DSc ,(Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Public Health, and Visiting Professor of International Health, University of Texas-Houston, School of Public Health)," The Parasite and the Patent: 
Confronting the New Feudalism"

04/08/2002, KATE WINSKELL, PhD ,(Scenarios from Africa and Global Dialogues), "Scenarios from Africa: youth, film and AIDS" Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Public Scholarship and
Institute for African Studies

04/19/2002, Male Sex Work Identities and their Implications for Health

A mini-conference sponsored by the Center for the Study of Health, Culture, and Society (CSHCS) and Emory’s AIDS International Training and Research Program (AITRP)