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New Critical Global Health Studies Seminar
The last decade has seen the emergence of global health as a conceptual framework for understanding the global processes that shape patterns of sickness and health in various parts of the world, as well as the activities of international health organizations, donor countries, national governments, NGOs, and local and transnational advocacy groups in combating health problems around the globe. More recently, a number of scholars have begun to conduct ethnographic and historically informed studies to examine critically these processes and institutions and to interrogate the complex set of political, economic, social, and ecological forces that are driving patterns of sickness and health and responses to them. The Critical Global Health Studies Seminar is designed as a forum to allow interested faculty and students to engage with this emerging body of critical work. The Seminar will begin in March 2008 and will meet three times during the spring. We will continue the seminar in the Fall. Each seminar will feature an invited speaker who will pre-circulate a paper to be discussed during the seminar.
Spring Speakers:
April 8: Daniel Jordan Smith, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Population Studies, Brown University, “Antiretroviral Therapy and Reproductive Behavior in Nigeria: Sex, Marriage and Fertility among People Living with HIV
April 15: Michelle Murphy, Associate Professor of History, University of Toronto, “Economization of Life: Fertility, Economy and Aggregated Life”
April 29: Allan Hill, Andelot Professor of Demography, Harvard School of Public Health, TBA Each speaker will present a paper that is a work in progress. The papers will be circulated electronically to Seminar participants in advance of the session. The paper for the seminar to be held next Tuesday is attached. Speakers will provide a short introduction to their paper, to be followed by comments and questions from a student discussant. The bulk of the seminar time will be devoted to an open (and we hope lively) discussion of the paper. The seminars will be held from 9:00 to 10:30 in the conference room (room 303) of the Department of the History of Medicine, located on the 3rd floor of the Welch Medical Library, East Baltimore Campus. The address of the Library is 1900 East Monument Street.
Institute faculty map historical patterns of health inequality in Baltimore Along with colleagues in the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Arizona State University and the University of Minnesota, faculty members in the Institute (Mooney, Packard, Marks) are developing a project that seeks to explain inequalities in infectious disease mortality in Baltimore in the late 19th century. It is our goal to link the demographic information contained on original death certificates in the early 1880s to other sources such as the census, property tax records and maps containing social data. Using multi-level modeling statistical techniques and Geographic Information Systems, we want to understand how individual characteristics (age, sex, race, ethnicity, marital status, occupation), family circumstances (presence of siblings, domestic overcrowding, access to water supply) and neighborhood context (population density, socio-economic deprivation) all interact to produce variable susceptibilities to diseases such as respiratory tuberculosis, typhoid and smallpox. 
Welcome Gianna Pomata
Please join the Department of the History of Medicine in welcoming our newest faculty member, Dr. Gianna Pomata. Gianna, a specialist in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe, comes to us from the University of Bologna. Most recently, she is the editor, with Nancy Siraisi, of Historia: Empiricism and Erudition in Early Modern Europe (MIT, 2005). She is also the author of Contracting a Cure: Patients, Healers, and the Law in Early Modern Bologna (1998, Johns Hopkins). She is also the editor, with Lorraine Daston, of The Faces of Nature in Enlightenment Europe (BWV, 2003).
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