Caring and Curing in the South: Medical Technologies, Past and Present

An interdisciplinary conference sponsored by
The Center for Society and Industry in the Modern South
22-23 March 2002

Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia

FRIDAY, 22 March 2002 D.M. Smith Building, Room 105 685 Cherry Street Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Georgia
3:30-4:00	Registration
4:00-4:15	Welcome and Opening Remarks Doug Flamming, Director Center for Society and Industry in the Modern South School of History, Technology, and Society Georgia Institute of Technology   Andrea Tone School of History, Technology, and Society Georgia Institute of Technology
4:15-5:15	Keynote Address The Strange Career of Race and Cancer in the American South Keith Wailoo Department of History and the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, Rutgers University

SATURDAY, 23 March 2002 GCATT Building 250 14th Street, NW Atlanta, Georgia
9:30-10:00	Registration and Continental Breakfast
10:00-11:30	Session 1: Bioengineering Chair:  Roberta Berry School of Public Policy Georgia Institute of Technology   Building Biotechnology in Georgia: It Takes a Whole Village to Raise a Child Robert M. Nerem, Parker H. Petit Distinguished Chair for Engineering in Medicine Institute of Bioengineering and Biosciences Georgia Institute of Technology   Regenerative Bioscience and Integrative Engineering: Medical Futures in the Present Linda F. Hogle Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics
11:30-1:00	Conference Luncheon and Lecture: SIMS will be providing a southern-style lunch to all registered participants.  A vegetarian option will be available.   The Mosquito and the Liberation of Cuba John Tone School of History, Technology, and Society Georgia Institute of Technology
1:00-3:00	Session 2: Medicine in Practice   Chair: John Krige, Kranzberg Professor School of History, Technology, and Society Georgia Institute of Technology   OxyContin: Why Millions Will Suffer Because a Few Got High David Hewitt, M.D., Director Neuroscience/Analgesia Research Johnson & Johnson   Children at Risk: Ritalin and its Overprescription Chantel Cohen Clinical Social Worker   Immigrant Care in Atlanta Sue Anne Brenner, M.D.
3:00-3:30	Coffee Break
3:30-5:00	Session 3: Gender and Medical Technology   Chair:  Sue Rosser, Dean Ivan Allen College Georgia Institute of Technology   Overview of Women and Health in the United States Since the mid-1960s by Dean Sue Rosser   Women, Medicine, and the Media: Southern Style Suzanne White Junod History Office Food and Drug Administration   The Risky Path from Early Detection to Chemoprevention Maren Klawiter School of History, Technology, and Society Georgia Institute of Technology How To Register