Join Johanna Schoen as she investigates the history of parent activism as parents, in the early 1980s, began to lobby for more humane NICU care. Dr. Schoen will discuss clinical care in the NICU during this time period, the critiques that parents brought to the NICU, and the impact that their criticism had on shaping NICU care in the 21st century.
Johanna Schoen, Ph.D., Professor of History, Rutgers University
In public health, fear-based campaigns are regarded (rightly so) with caution and concern because their side effects of stigma and scapegoating can be so toxic. Those worries have been shaped by an awareness of the formidable power of mass media (newspapers, radio, TV) and now the “new” social media to amplify public health messaging in unexpected and undesirable ways. In this talk, Dr. Tomes will present a brief history of what she terms the “panic problem” in U.S. American public health practice to stimulate a discussion of those questions: how do we motivate people to act in a public health crisis without inducing some degree of fear? Is there a place for healthy fear in public health messaging today and if so, what would it look like?
Nancy Tomes, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of History, Stony Brook University
We know a lot about New York’s 18th-century doctors, who left behind diaries and letters and accounts of their work. We know far less about front-line workers such as gravediggers, those who provided food and firewood to the poor, and nurses, who were often working-class women and men who played extraordinarily important roles during the yellow fever epidemics that slammed the city in the 1790s. This talk explores front-line workers and the mixed-race hospital staffs they formed to care for the ill during a period of great change and uncertainty in New York City.
Carolyn Eastman, Ph.D., Professor of History, Virginia Commonwealth University
Tri-Institutional Calendars
The close proximity among the three institutions which comprise the Tri-I has led to a culture that encourages interinstitutional interactions and shared resources, including access to lectures and seminars from internationally renowned scientists and clinicians: