ANESTHESIA HISTORY ASSOCIATION
1998 Annual Meeting Program
Sheraton Centre Hotel
123 Queen Street
Toronto, Ontario, M5H 2M9 Canada
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[last updated 12 May 1998]
Wednesday, May 6, 1998
Evening Reception
Conference Room G
5:30-7:30 P.M.
with "A Polymath at the Piano"
David C. Lai, MD, winner of the 1997 AHA Resident Essay Award
Thursday, May 7, 1998
Continental Breakfast
Conference Room D
7:00-7:45 A.M.
Opening Plenary Session
Conference Room E
8:00-9:00 A.M.
*Welcome and Speaker Introduction: A.J. Wright, MLS
*Dale C. Smith, PhD
Professor and Chairman
Department of Medical History
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Bethesda, Maryland
"Anesthesia, Anesthesiology, Medical History and the Kitchen Sink"
Concurrent Session A
Conference Room F
Moderator: Ray Defalque, MD
9:00-10:30 A.M.
*M. Goerig, K. Agarwal
Unknown Biographic Facts about August Bier
*DC Lai
Polymath Beneath the Firedamp: The Story of J.B.S. Haldane
[Winner of the 1997 AHA Resident Essay Contest]
*M Mandabach
History of Epidural Anesthesia
Concurrent Session B
Conference Room G
Moderator: Douglas Bacon, MD
9:00-10:30 A.M.
*CM Harrison
Eufame MacCalyane Revisited: Medicine and Magic in Early
Modern Britain
*S Kannan
Walter Channing and Nathan Cooley Keep: The First Obstetric
Anesthetics in America
[Second Place, AHA 1997 Resident Essay Contest]
*Y-F Sung
Hua Tu: The First Anesthesiologist?
Refreshment Break
10:30-11:00 A.M.
Concurrent Session C
Conference Room F
Moderator: Lucien Morris, MD
11:00 A.M.-12:00 noon
*JC Diz, A Franco, A Garcia, D Chao, J Alvarez
A Spanish Painting about the Discovery of Anesthesia
*RJ Defalque, AJ Wright
Chloric Ether: A Chemical Enigma
*E Luft
Arthur Ecker's Contributions to Pain Management
Concurrent Session D
Conference Room G
Moderator: A.J. Wright, MLS
11:00 A.M. -12:00 noon
*T Romanelli, D Bacon
The Origins of Modern Anesthesia Throughout the American
Experience Spanning the World Wars
*VJ Kopp
Henry Knowles Beecher and the Ethics of Anesthesia Research
*G Zeitlin
Cyril Courville, M.D.: The Anesthetists' Pathologist
12:00 noon-1:30 P.M.
Conference Rooms D & E
Luncheon Plenary Session
Welcome and Remarks: C. Ronald Stephen, MD, President
Anesthesia History Association
Speaker Introduction: A.J. Wright, MLS
Douglas Bacon, MD
"Growth of Academic Anesthesia in the 1920s and 1930s--A Case Study"
J.C. Diz, MD
"A Brief Presentation on the V International Symposium on the History
of Anesthesia, Santiago, Spain, 2001"
Concurrent Session E
Norfolk Room
Moderator: Mark Mandabach, MD
2:00-3:30 P.M.
*M Goerig, K Agarwal
The Intricacy of Lumbar Anaesthesia
*RJ Defalque, AJ Wright
From a German Laboratory to Our Cities' Mean
Streets: A Brief History of Methadone
*G Tobias, D Bacon
Continuous Spinal Anesthesia: A Continuous History
*H Gazder [+]
Corning, Bier and the Origin of Spinal Anesthesia
Concurrent Session F
Peel Room
Moderator: Patrick Sim, MLS
2:00-3:30 P.M.
*DC Mackey
Spinal Opioid Administration: Why Did It Take So Long for this
Clinical Technique to Emerge?
*C Brady
Victorian Anesthetics and the Issue of Control
*AJ Wright
See You in the Funny Papers: Anesthesia in Cartoons and Comics
*JC Diz, A Franco, FJ Aneiros, J Cortes, J Alvarez
The "Servicio Hispano-Canadiense de Transfusion de Sangre" in the
Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
*PK Benoit [+]
Claudia Potter, M.D.: Living in the Shadow of Surgeons
Conference Postmortum
Peel Room
Moderator: A.J. Wright, MLS
3:30-4:00 P.M.
What would you like to see at future meetings??
+Abstract accepted but author unable to present
NOTE: I would like to thank---very belatedly---Ms. Michele Tanner,
Roche Laboratories, for her support of the 1997 annual meeting
abstract book!! --A.J. Wright, MLS
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