MOMS Conference

October 21-23, 2022. The 8th Manitoba-(Northwest) Ontario-Minnesota-Saskatchewan (MOMS) History of Medicine Conference at @usask @usaskhist

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(Part of) The Bunny hug crew! Please tag yourselves if we haven’t! @erikadyckhist @steerewilliams @IpshitaNath @emilykalizzle @jburnford @_JustinFisher_ @leti_johnson @signalhum

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That’s a wrap! Thank you everyone for a wonderful weekend! See you next time! #histmed

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Our last presentation of the conference is by Emily Hunt (NOSM) speaking about “Planning a History of Medicine Exhibit in Northwestern Ontario” #histmed

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With @erikadyckhist and @steerewilliams

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Next is Mike Cartier (@usaskhist) talking to us about “The ‘Teen Age’: Exploring the Inter-war Health Experiences of Children through their letters to the Western Producer” #histmed

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Our last panel of the conference is underway!

First up is Letitia Johnson (@leti_johnson) (@usaskhist) presenting “ ‘Healthy’ Constructions and Productions of Japanese Canadian Internment” #histmed

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Soup, snow, and #histmed for lunch today @usaskhist

Jennifer Gunn (@UMNHistory @hstm_umn) delivers our Lunchtime Talk entitled “Minimum Measures of Adequacy and the Alleged Shortage of Physicians, 1910-1970” #histmed

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Finally we have Ipshita Nath (@IpshitaNath) (@usaskhist) speaking about “Health, Discipline, and Quarantines: Colonial Jail-Management in British India, 1860-1920” #histmed

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Next is “Colonial Laws or Fears? Healing Insanity in Anti-Witchcraft Ghana, 1920-1940” by Richard Oware (@usaskhist) #histmed

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The second panel today is entitled “Witchcraft, the Supernatural, and Colonial Spaces of Control”

We begin with DJ Houle (NOSM) presenting virtually with “Re-examining Ancient Greek Understandings of Mental Health” #histmed

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Last on the first panel today is Mirela David (@usaskhist). Her presentation is entitled “Eugenics and the anti-syphilis campaigns in 1920s-1930s Transylvania, Romania” #histmed

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Next is Bethany Knowles (@usask) speaking about: “Guardians of the Race?”: The Career and Activism of Emily Murphy in Historical Context” #histmed

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First up today is Emily Kaliel @emilykalizzle (@uofg) with “District Nursing, Settler Health, and the Land: A Spatial Examination of the Alberta District Nursing Program over the Twentieth Century”
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Welcome to day 2 MOMS folks! #histmed

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Thank you everyone for your engagement and attention today! See you tomorrow for day 2!
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The last presentation of day 1 is by @usaskhist’s own Erin Matthews (@signalhum): “Panic and Panaceas: the influence of the Saskatchewan press during ‘Spanish Influenza’” #histmed

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Next is “Bodies of Experience: Parallels and ‘Lessons Learned’ in HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 Oral History Interviews” presented by Adam Negri @negri_adam (@UMNHistory, @hstm_umn) #histmed

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The fifth and final panel of day 1 begins with Derek Cameron (@DerekHilCameron) (@usaskhist) speaking about “Anti-Vaccination Before Wakefield: Canadian Anti-vaccination in the 1980s and 90s” #histmed

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The last paper of our fourth panel is from Patrick Lee, University of Saskatchewan (@usask @usaskhist).
“Seeds of Control: Canola, Technology, and Health”
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Next up,“‘How many Elliot Lakes do you need?’ The energy crisis and Saskatchewan uranium expansion”
presented by Justin Fisher from University of Saskatchewan (@usask @usaskhist)