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2013 Global Health History Series: History Speaking to Policy
Tuesday, January 22, 2013, 3:00pm-4:30pm in the Institute for Health and Social Policy seminar room
Professor Deborah Neill, York University
"Medical moralists: French doctors and the Anti-Alcohol Campaigns in Africa, 1890-1930"
Between the late 1880s and 1914, many colonial reformers came together to protest the manufacture, sale and distribution of high-alcohol content spirit to Africans. Among the reformers who participated in the colonial anti-liquor campaigns were a small group of highly influential physicians and scientists who provided key medical rationales for restricting alcohol sales to Africans. My paper explores the anti-alcohol movement, the participation of physicians (particularly from France), and how medical views contributed to the shape of moral reform movements and temperance activism in the colonies in the period leading up to the First World War.
Tuesday, February 12, 2013, 2:00-3:30pm in the Institute for Health and Social Policy seminar room
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Professor Projit Mukharji, University of Pennsylvania
“Injectible Modernity? Pharma-capitalism and the Injection-fetish in 20th Century India"
Beginning in the 1970s, but more so from the end of the 1980s, medical anthropologists documented the widespread “misuse” and “overuse” of injections in the global south. With the rise of HIV/AIDS, this phenomenon itself came to be seen as a public health problem. It is this practice of injection overuse in 20th century India that this paper explores.
My argument in the paper is two-fold. First, I will advance a critique of the available culturalist interpretations of the phenomenon. Second, I will propose a more historicized interpretation that is sensitive to the changing relationship between pharmacapitalism, print culture and vernacular biomedicine. I will conclude by suggesting how culturalist and historicist interpretations might be fruitfully combined to interrogate phenomena such as the seemingly wanton popularity of injections.
Tuesday, April 23, 2013, 2:00-3:30pm in the Institute for Health and Social Policy seminar room
Professor Howard Phillips, University of Cape Town
"The return of the Pholela experiment: medical history and primary health care in post-apartheid South Africa"
Monday, May 6, 2013 [time tbd] in the Institute for Health and Social Policy seminar room
Professor Sanjoy Bhattacharya, University of York (GB)
"Bhutan’s Smallpox Eradication Programme: International health, South Asia and the limits of its global influence"
2013 Seminar Series
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 12:20 -1:45pm in the Institute for Health and Social Policy seminar room
Dr. Amélie Quesnel-Vallée, Departments of Sociology and Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University
“The myth of privatization for cost-saving: Putting choice and equity in the balance”
Part of the Healthier Societies series
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013 12:30-13:45 pm in the Institute for Health and Social Policy seminar room
Faculty Lecturer Cheryl Armistad, Ingram School of Nursing and Dr. Sean Clarke, McGill School of Nursing, Director, McGill Nursing Collaborative for Educational Innovation in Patient and Family-Centred Care
"Primary Health Care Transformation: Community health nurses and the National Expert's Commision's Nursing Call to Action"
Part of the Healthier Societies series
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Wednesday, March 27, 2013 12:30-13:45 pmin the Institute for Health and Social Policy seminar room
Dr. Erin Strumpf, Assistant Professor, joint appointment, Departments of Economics and Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University
"Does Health Insurance Affect Health?: Evidence of Medicare's impact on cancer outcomes"
Part of the Healthier Societies series
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