AAHM 2025

Remembering John Parascandola 8:00pm - 9:00pm

Opening Reception 6:30pm - 8:00pm

Graduate Student Meeting and Greet 8:00pm - 9:30pm

A6. Medical Provider’s Impact on Patient Care 10:30am - 12:00pm

B6. Disease, Race, and Ethnicity in the Americas 1:00pm - 2:30pm

C4. Roundtable Everything Everywhere All at Once: Historical Legacies of Eugenics 2:45pm - 4:15pm

D5. Women and Gender-Diverse Historians of Health and Medicine C... 4:45pm - 5:45pm

A3. Roundtable Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians 10:30am - 12:00pm

B3. Pregnancy and Abortion in Twentieth Century America 1:00pm - 2:30pm

C3. Acupuncture Beyond Medicine: Global Perspectives from the Late Nineteenth to Twenty-First Ce... 2:45pm - 4:15pm

D4. Humanities Labs and the History of Medicine/Healthcare 4:45pm - 5:45pm

A5. Roundtable Above and Beyond the Archives: Documenting the Black AIDS Epidemic 10:30am - 12:00pm

B5. Vaccination Campaigns in Global Perspective 1:00pm - 2:30pm

C5. Roundtable New Directions in the History of Public Health in the Nineteenth Century: Reflect... 2:45pm - 4:15pm

D3. Mentorship Pods: Insights on Publishing, Funding, and Career... 4:45pm - 5:45pm

A2. Contraception, Pregnancy Loss, and Maternity Care in Twentieth Century America 10:30am - 12:00pm

B2. Ethics and Patient Data Initiative: Discussing Draft Guidelines 1:00pm - 2:30pm

C2. Roundtable: Make America Healthy Again: Audience Discussion of the Role of Historians in Pub... 2:45pm - 4:15pm

D2. Humanitarian Archives: Absences and Opportunities 4:45pm - 5:45pm

Garrison Reception and Centennial Celebration 7:00pm - 9:00pm

A1. Human Remains in and for Historical Research. What Can We Do?  10:30am - 12:00pm

B4. HIV/AIDS Technology and Politics 1:00pm - 2:30pm

C1. The History of Art for the History of Medicine  2:45pm - 4:15pm

D1. Reparative Historical Inquiry (RHI)—Refining A Theoretical A... 4:45pm - 5:45pm

A4. Roundtable Absent and Present: Children’s Perspectives in the History of Medicine 10:30am - 12:00pm

B1. Medicine, Technology, and Representations in Global East Asia  1:00pm - 2:30pm

C6. Imperialism, Western Medical Standards, and the Interests of Medical Go-Betweens in Asia fro... 2:45pm - 4:15pm

D6. What Is To Be Done?—Building a Movement and Crafting Alterna... 4:45pm - 5:45pm

Refreshment Break 4:15pm - 4:45pm

Themed Breakfasts 7:00am - 8:00am

E6. Gendered Approaches to Fertility, Contraception and Abortion in the Medieval and Early Moder... 10:15am - 11:45am

F6. Nineteenth-Century U.S. Medical Education: The Urban Poor, the Janitors, and the Students  1:00pm - 2:30pm

G6. Deinstitutionalization and its Discontents: An Historical Reappraisal  3:45pm - 5:15pm

E1. Women’s Health in Global Perspective 10:15am - 11:45am

F4. Roundtable Carceral Sickness: Towards Inclusive Research with New York State Correctional Fa... 1:00pm - 2:30pm

G3. Changing Medical Practices 3:45pm - 5:15pm

E5. Roundtable Geographies of Medicine in the Early Modern World: An Exploration in Pedagogy 10:15am - 11:45am

F3. Roundtable HIPAA, Privacy and Accessing Historical Medical Records 1:00pm - 2:30pm

G5. Transgender Health, Healthcare, and Community 3:45pm - 5:15pm

E2. The (Sometimes) Uneasy Relationship between History of Medicine and Disability Studies: Audi... 10:15am - 11:45am

F2. Public Health in Global Perspective 1:00pm - 2:30pm

AAHM Annual Business Meeting 2:45pm - 3:30pm

G4. Roundtable Act Two: Black Life Through Biopolitics, Necropolitics, and Afrophobia 3:45pm - 5:15pm

F1. Reclaiming Black Health and Reimagining Black Futures in the Civil Rights Era and its Wake  1:00pm - 2:30pm

G1. Health Activism, Healthcare as Activism  3:45pm - 5:15pm

E3. Roundtable: Resuscitating the History of Nursing: A Roundtable on New Methods, Clinical Audi... 10:15am - 11:45am

F5. Disability in America 1:00pm - 2:30pm

G2. Roundtable Revisiting the American Physician Dr. Robert L. Dickinson: Exploring his Contribu... 3:45pm - 5:15pm

AAHM Awards Breakfast 8:30am - 10:00am

Coffee Break and "Grab and Go" Lunch 11:30am - 12:45pm

H2. Leaky Body Politics: Public Health and Pelvic Health 8:30am - 10:00am

I2. Reproductive Health in Global Perspective 10:30am - 12:00pm

Refreshment Break 10:00am - 10:30am

Themed Breakfasts 7:00am - 8:30am

H1. The Meanings of “Success” and “Failure” in the History of Humanitarian Medicine  8:30am - 10:00am

I1. Epidemiological Knowledge and Historical Thought from the Middle Ages to Modernity 10:30am - 12:00pm

H4. Medical Technology: Innovations, Research, and Politics 8:30am - 10:00am

I4. Contested/Contesting Heredity  10:30am - 12:00pm

H3. Challenges in Public Health 8:30am - 10:00am

I3. Philanthropy and the State in the Early Twentieth Century 10:30am - 12:00pm