2026 AAHM + AAHN Annual Meeting: Full Schedule

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8:30am EDT

Sunday June 7, 2026 8:30am - 10:00am EDT

1. David Korostyshevsky, Locked in a Mad House: Guardianship, Asylums, and the Medical Incarceration of Habitual Drunkards in the Gilded Age ([email protected])
2. Peper Rivers, “‘Artificial Motivation’: The American Experiment with Civil Commitment for People Who Use Drugs (1961-1971)” ([email protected])
3. Elizabeth Nelson ([email protected]) and Jarrod Wall ([email protected]), Getting into the DSM: Diagnostic Recognition of Trauma among Vietnam Vets and the Formerly Incarcerated

Chair email: [email protected]

Moderators

Michael Rembis

Professor, Department of History Director, Center for Disability Studies Co-PI Mellon Communities of Care, University at Buffalo

Speakers

David Korostyshevsky

Faculty, Colorado State University

I am an interdisciplinary historian studying addiction, gender, and the family at the nexus of medicine and law. My research interests also include life insurance medicine and the formation of enduring disparities in modern healthcare systems. I am an Instructor in the Department... Read More →

Peper Rivers

Indiana University

Elizabeth Nelson

Indiana University

Jarrod Wall

Tulane University

H1 Abstracts pdf

Sunday June 7, 2026 8:30am - 10:00am EDT
Grand Ballroom E Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Concurrent Session, AAHM Panel

10:30am EDT

I1. Rethinking Epidemic Moments

Sunday June 7, 2026 10:30am - 12:00pm EDT

Grand Ballroom E

1. Stephen Pemberton, A Case of Medical Tragedy and ‘Doctor Guilt’ ([email protected])
2. Ashley Brown, Situating Kahnawà:ke in the 1885 Montreal Smallpox Epidemic ([email protected])
3. Knowledge G. Moyo, Blood, HIV/AIDS, and the Hematological Diagnosis of a Diseased Nation, c 1985- 2000 ([email protected])

Chair email: [email protected]

Moderators