Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Medical Anthropology Colloquium Seminar Laurel Heights Ste 474 | 3:30-5:00
EJ Sobo, PhD Anthropology, San Diego State University
Selling globally outsourced healthcare to US-based patient-consumers: The cultural appeal of common medical travel agency marketing techniques
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Medical Anthropology Colloquium Seminar Laurel Heights Ste 474 | 3:30-5:00
Galen Joseph, PhD, Assistant Professor, Cancer Center
Medical Anthropology, UCSF ‘Ethnics’, Ethics and Equity: Increasing “Minority” Accrual to Cancer Clinical Trials
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Medical Anthropology Colloquium Seminar Laurel Heights Ste 474 | 3:30-5:00
Betsy Pohlman, PhD Candidate UCB/UCSF Joint Medical Program
The Ethics and Politics of Caring and Curing: The Case of Alzheimer's Disease and Down Syndrome
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Medical Anthropology Colloquium Seminar Laurel Heights Ste 376 | 3:30-5:00
*NOTE ROOM CHANGE*
Amar Dhand, MD Neurology Resident, UCSF
Maintaining ethnographic practices during medical residency:
Ideas for multidisciplinarians
Monday, October 19, 2009
Lecture Series in the History of Modern Biomedicine Parnassus N-217 | 12:00-1:30
*NOTE ROOM CHANGE*
Jessica Wang, PhD Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in U.S. History, Department of History, University of British Columbia
Mad Dogs and Other New Yorkers: Rabies, Dread Disease, and the Politics of Animal Control, 1850-1920
“Mad Dogs and Other New Yorkers” seeks to reconstruct the urban world that humans and dogs shared, explore the interrelationship between people, dogs, and disease, and place rabies in the context of urban politics, class conflict, and the social history of the American city. In New York City during the nineteenth and early twentieth century, dog-catching pitted class against class, as well as reformers against aspiring public health professionals. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) eventually wrested New York City’s animal control functions away from the “rough men” and “street urchins” who had dominated the trade up until the 1890s, but by the early twentieth century, the New York City Department of Health began to assert its power over the ASPCA in matters of rabies prevention. The talk explores the class conflicts surrounding animal control in the nineteenth century, and it examines how changes in institutional capacity within the public health bureaucracy prompted the Department of Health’s newly assertive attitude toward animal control. Dog-catching and rabies prevention reflected the broader shift toward more formal and professionalized modes of public authority that took place in the United States during the early decades of the twentieth century.
Jessica Wang is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in U.S. History at the University of British Columbia. Her previous works include American Science in an Age of Anxiety: Scientists, Anticommunism, and the Cold War (University of North Carolina Press, 1999), and essays on cold war science, internationalism and U.S. foreign relations, and law, social science, and New Deal political economy.
