• Department of History
• School of Arts, Humanities, and Communications
• Susquehanna University
2006-2007 Brown Bag Lecture Series (all events in Shearer-Weber Dining Rooms unless otherwise noted)
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September 28, 7:00-8:00 Karol Weaver (history) presents her book on slave medicine in Saint Domingue |
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October 10, 12:45-2:00 Jeff Whitman (philosophy) on alternative medicines |
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November 10, 11:30-12:30 |
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New Date: February 19, 7:30 in Apple Community Room |
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February 20 , 11:30-12:30 Margaret Puskar-Pasewicz (College Misericordia, history), "Abstention, Consumption, and the Body" |
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March 14, 11:30-12:30 Jeanette Keith (Bloomsburg University, history), "Death on the |
See last year's events.
Keynote Lecture |
Nina Berman April 18, 2007 |
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Nina Berman is a documentary photographer whose 2004 book Purple Hearts: Back from Iraq presents images of and interviews with American soldiers wounded in Iraq. Berman will discuss her work. The event is free and open to the public. See more information on Berman's work here. |
I IS FOR ILLNESS:
PATHOGRAPHIES
November 20
3:00-4:30, Steele 011
Narratives, or stories, are central to the practice of medicine and the experience of disease. When a person goes to see a doctor, he or she must tell the doctor a story about his or her illness—when it started, how long it lasted, and how it is affecting him or her. Sometimes, a person experiencing a disease decides to write about it and share it with a larger audience. A narrative about a disease experience is called a pathography. Students from Karol Weaver's History of Medicine class will present speeches on pathographies. Students will analyze pathographies that deal with epilepsy, self-injury, anorexia, and more.
