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Subject:      Org. Am. Historians conf: San Francisco, April '97
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For those studying the US, you may want to browse the OAH program on-line
-- there are several historians of medicine, at least, involved this year,
and some of the papers are on-line (see below). --NEL.
 
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For the complete program of the annual convention of the Organization
of American Historians [San Francisco, April 17-20, 1997]
see
http://www.indiana.edu/~oah/97program/
 
as a new experiment, several of the 100+ sessions will have the complete
text of the papers published on the WWW at the above location. Comments on
these papers may also be posted to the www site.
 
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       2. Reconstructing Identities: Social Dimensions of Addiction
          Treatment in the Twentieth Century (April 17, 4:30 p.m.)
 
               Addict Careers and Life at the Lexington Narcotic Hospital
                    Caroline Jean Acker, Carnegie Mellon University
 
               Compelled to Behave: The Treatment of Tuberculous Alcoholics
               in Seattle, 1949-1960
                    Barron H. Lerner, Columbia University
 
               Re-Educating the Inebriate: Therapeutic and Civic Ideals in the
               Institutional Reform of Alcoholics, 1890-1920
                    Sarah Whitney Tracy, Rutgers Institute for Health Care
                    Policy and Aging Research
 
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