Weekly Calendar
Noted Medical Historian on 'Diagnosing Medical
Miracles'
Jacalyn Duffin
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Medicine, history and religion come together this week when
Jacalyn Duffin presents the 2008
Hideyo Noguchi Lecture, "Diagnosing Medical Miracles:
Physicians and Saint-Making in the Vatican." A
practicing hematologist, internist and historian, Duffin
has held the Hannah Chair of the History of
Medicine at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario,
Canada, since 1988. She is the immediate past
president of the American Association for the History of
Medicine and former president of the
Canadian Association of the History of Medicine.
More than 20 years ago, in her capacity as a hematologist,
Duffin was asked to read a set of
bone-marrow aspirates, without any information about the
patient or any clinical details. She found
severe acute leukemia, where the patient had experienced a
remission, a relapse and another
remission. She assumed that the patient was deceased and
that her analysis was probably for a
lawsuit. Much later she discovered that the patient had
been alive and that the recovery had been
attributed to the miraculous intervention of
Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, a Montreal nun who had died
in 1771.
This medical miracle was the capstone in the case for the
canonization in 1990 of d'Youville as
the first Canadian-born saint in the Catholic Church.
Duffin realized that her analysis was part of the formal
testimony for the canonization and
would forever reside in the Vatican Secret Archives. As a
historian, she became intrigued with the
idea of investigating the medical miracles documented in
the canonization testimonies and was given
access to those archives. Her analysis of the medical
aspects of canonization, "Medical Miracles:
Doctors, Saints and Healing, 1588-1999," will be published
by Oxford University Press.
The Hideyo Noguchi Lecture, endowed in 1929 and sponsored
by the Department of the History
of Medicine, is the third-oldest lecture series at the
School of Medicine. The lecture will be held at 4
p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 21, in Hurd Hall, East Baltimore
campus.
Colloquia
Tues., Feb. 19, 4:15 p.m. "Manipulating
Metal-Catalyzed Oxidative Stress," a Chemistry colloquium
with
Katherine Franz, Duke University. 233 Remsen. HW
Thurs., Feb. 21, 3 p.m. "The National Ignition
Facility — A Star Is Born?" a Physics and Astronomy
colloquium with Bill Goldstein, Lawrence Livermore National
Lab. Schafler Auditorium, Bloomberg
Center. HW
Fri., Feb. 22, 4 p.m. "An Attributivist Account of
Epistemic Justification," a Philosophy colloquium with
Marcus Willaschek, University of Frankfurt. 348 Gilman.
HW
Film/Video
Thurs., Feb. 21, 4 p.m. Screening of the documentary
King Corn, followed by a question-and-answer
session with director Aaron Woolf. Co-sponsored by the
Center for a Livable Future and the
International Health Student Group. W1214 SPH (Sheldon
Hall). EB
Lectures
Wed., Feb. 20, noon. "Howard County to San
Francisco: Providing Health Care for All at the Local
Level," a Mid-Atlantic Public Health Training Center
lecture and webcast by Peter Beilenson, health
officer for Howard Co., Md., and Cheryl Fish-Parcham,
Families USA. Go to
www.jhsph.edu/maphtc to
get the URL for the webcast (Real Player required).
Co-sponsored by the Maryland Department of
Health and Mental Hygiene. W1214 SPH (Sheldon Hall). EB
Wed., Feb. 20, 4 p.m., and Fri., Feb. 22, 8 a.m.
"FY07 Emergency Management Program: Lessons
Learned/Enhancements," offered by the Office of Emergency
Management for department disaster
coordinators, management teams, shift coordinators, shift
supervisors and others. 1-191 Meyer on
Feb. 20 and 201 Billings Administration Building on Feb.
22. EB
Thurs., Feb. 21, 10:30 a.m. "Progress on the
Verified Software Grand Challenge," a Computer Science
lecture by Bruce Weide, Ohio State University. B17
Computational Science and Engineering Bldg. HW
Thurs., Feb. 21, 4 p.m. The Hideyo Noguchi Lecture
— "Diagnosing Medical Miracles: Physicians and
Saint-Making in the Vatican" by Jacalyn Duffin, Queen's
University, Kingston, Ontario. Sponsored by
History of Medicine. Hurd Hall. EB
Music
Sun., Feb. 24, 5:30 p.m. The Shriver Hall Concert
Series presents the Alban Berg Quartet performing
music by Haydn, Berg and Schubert. $33 general admission,
$17 for students and free for JHU
students. Shriver Hall Auditorium. HW
Seminars
Mon., Feb. 18, noon. "Signaling Through TRPP2: From
Polycystic Kidney Disease to Fly Sperm," a
Physiology faculty candidate seminar with Michael Kottgen,
SoM. West Lecture Hall. EB
Mon., Feb. 18, noon. "Studying Wound Healing and
Inflammation in Mice and Flies and Fish," a Cell
Biology seminar with Paul Martin, University of Bristol.
Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB
Mon., Feb. 18, 12:15 p.m. "Molecular Recognition and
Molecular Switch Mechanisms," a Carnegie
Institution Embryology seminar with Herschel Wade, SoM.
Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive.
HW
Mon., Feb. 18, 3 p.m. "Estimates for Green's
Functions of Schrodinger Operators," a Mathematics
seminar with Michael Frazier, University of Tennessee. 308
Krieger. HW
Mon., Feb. 18, 3:30 p.m. "Facing the Inevitable:
How, Why and With Whom Older Adults Plan for the
End of Life," a Center on Aging and Health seminar with
Deborah Carr, Rutgers University. Suite 2-
700, 2024 E. Monument St. EB
Mon., Feb. 18, 4 p.m. David Bodian Seminar in
Neuroscience — "Neuronal Avalanches and the
Organization of Ongoing Cortical Synchrony in the Awake
Macaque Monkey" with Dietmar Plenz, NIH.
Sponsored by the Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. 338 Krieger.
HW
Mon., Feb. 18, 4 p.m. "Effects of Local mRNA
Structure on Post-Transcriptional Gene Silencing," a
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Alan
Gewirtz, University of Pennsylvania. W2030
SPH. EB
Mon., Feb. 18, 4:30 p.m. "A Black Box for
Homological Stability," a Mathematics seminar with Ben
Wieland, Brown University. 302 Krieger. HW
Tues., Feb. 19, noon. "May the Force Be With You:
New Perspectives on Cell Adhesion," a Biological
Chemistry seminar with Andres Garcia, Georgia Institute of
Technology. 612 Physiology. EB
Tues., Feb. 19, 2 p.m. "Experimental Approaches to
Rational Strategies for the Prophylaxis and
Treatment of Falciparum Malaria," a Graduate Training
Program in Clinical Investigation thesis
defense seminar with Myaing Nyunt. E6519 SPH. EB
Tues., Feb. 19, 2 p.m. "Breast and Cardiac SPECT
Using Rotating-slant Hole Collimator," an
Environmental Health Sciences thesis defense seminar with
Chi Liu. W7041 SPH. EB
Tues., Feb. 19, 4 p.m. "Lattice Option Pricing by
Multidimensional Interpolation," an Applied
Mathematics and Statistics seminar with Vladislav Kargin,
New York University. 304 Whitehead. HW
Tues., Feb. 19, 4:30 p.m. "Hyper-Symmetric Abelian
Varieties," a Mathematics seminar with Ying Zong,
University of Pennsylvania. 308 Krieger. HW
Wed., Feb. 20, 10 a.m. "An Investigation of Host
Responses to Malaria During Co-infection With
Schistosomiasis," a Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
thesis defense seminar with Davidson
Sangweme. W2033 SPH. EB
Wed., Feb. 20, 10:30 a.m. "The Context, Factors and
Pathways Related to Adolescent Sexuality in
Lima, Peru," a Population, Family and Reproductive Health
thesis defense seminar with Angela Bayer.
W4517 SPH. EB
Wed., Feb. 20, noon. "The Indoor Home Environment
and Children's Asthma," an Environmental Health
Sciences seminar with Gregory Diette, SoM. W7023 SPH.
EB
Wed., Feb. 20, 1:30 p.m. "Single Molecule
Measurements on Motor Proteins With Nanometer
Precision," a Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry seminar
with Ahmet Yildiz, University of California,
San Francisco. 517 PCTB. EB
Wed., Feb. 20, 3:30 p.m. "Life as a Lipid: Rafts,
Dynamics and Interactions," a Materials Science and
Engineering seminar with Erin Sheets, Pennsylvania State
University. 110 Maryland. HW
Wed., Feb. 20, 4 p.m. "Mechanistic Insights Into
Normal and Pathogenic Notch Signaling," a
Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences seminar with Stephen
Blacklow, Brigham and Women's Hospital
and Harvard Medical School. West Lecture Hall, WBSB. EB
Thurs., Feb. 21, 9:30 a.m. "The Epidemiology of
HIV/AIDS Stigma in Chennai, South India," an
Epidemiology thesis defense seminar with Carla Zelaya.
W2008 SPH. EB
Thurs., Feb. 21, 11 a.m. "Phases, Phase-Transitions
and Frustration in Temperature-Sensitive Colloidal
Suspensions," a Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
seminar with Arjun Yodh, University of
Pennsylvania. 110 Maryland. HW
Thurs., Feb. 21, noon. Randolph Bromery Seminar
— "A 100 MillionÐYear Record of Sea-Level Change:
Should I Sell My Shore House?" with Ken Miller, Rutgers
University. Sponsored by Earth and
Planetary Sciences. Olin Auditorium. HW
Thurs., Feb. 21, noon. "A New Model for Hemoglobin
Ingestion and Transport by the Human Malaria
Parasite Plasmodium falciparum," an Infectious Diseases and
Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
joint seminar with Theodore Taraschi, Thomas Jefferson
University. W2030 SPH. EB
Thurs., Feb. 21, 12:10 p.m. "Where Does Secondary
Translation Fit Into the NIH Clinical and
Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program?" a Health,
Behavior and Society seminar with Daniel
Ford, SoM. Part of the series Translation and Dissemination
Research: The Scholarship of Public
Health Action. 250 Hampton House. EB
Thurs., Feb. 21, 3 p.m. "Asymptotics and Numerics of
Soundproof Models for Atmospheric Flows," a
Mechanical Engineering seminar with Rupert Klein, Freie
Universitaet, Berlin. 210 Hodson. HW
Thurs., Feb. 21, 4 p.m. "Interpretive Circles
— The Case of Qumran," a Humanities Center seminar
with
Edna Ullmann-Margalit, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. 111
Gilman. HW
Thurs., Feb. 21, 4 p.m. "Portfolio Optimization
Under Stochastic Volatility," an Applied Mathematics
and Statistics seminar with Andrew Vizcarra, Purdue
University. 304 Whitehead. HW
Thurs., Feb. 21, 4 p.m. "Metaplasmonics,
Nanocircuits With Light and Wireless Elements at
Nanoscales," an Electrical and Computer Engineering seminar
with Nader Engheta, University of
Pennsylvania. 105 Barton. HW
Fri., Feb. 22, 10 a.m. "The Relationship of Age and
Depression: Moderation by Stressful Life Events," a
Mental Health thesis defense seminar with Cynthia Jones.
E9519 SPH. EB
Fri., Feb. 22, 11 a.m. "Twenty Years of Experimental
and DNS Access to the Velocity Gradient Tensor:
What Have We Learned About Turbulence?" a CEAFM seminar
with James Wallace, University of
Maryland. 110 Maryland. HW
Fri., Feb. 22, noon. Framework Program in Global
Health Research Presentations — "Management of
Diarrheal Disease in Ethiopian Children" with Rishi
Mediratta and "Faithfulness in Sexual
Relationships: A Qualitative Study in Southern Province,
Zambia" with Deborah Sitrin. Sponsored by
the Center for Global Health. W3031 SPH. EB
Mon., Feb. 25, 9:30 a.m. "What Do Korean Women With
Breast Cancer Look For in Online
Communication With Physicians?" a Health, Behavior and
Society thesis defense seminar with Juhee
Cho. W3031 SPH. EB
Mon., Feb. 25, 10 a.m. "The Relation of Financial
Assets and Race/Ethnicity on Cognitive Development
of Children That Were Preterm," a Population, Family and
Reproductive Health thesis defense seminar
with Susan Braid. E4130 SPH. EB
Mon., Feb. 25, 12:15 p.m. "Euthanasia in Belgium:
Policy Making and Reform Proposals," a Berman
Institute of Bioethics seminar with Raphael Cohen-Almagor,
University of Hull. Co-sponsored by
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. W4030 SPH. EB
Mon., Feb. 25, 12:15 p.m. "Feedback Regulation of
Cholesterol Synthesis Through ER-associated
Degradation of HMG CoA Reductase," a Carnegie Institution
Embryology seminar with Russell DeBose-
Boyd, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Rose
Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive.
HW
Mon., Feb. 25, 1 p.m. "Rates of Conformance and
Factors Associated With Schizophrenia Treatment
Recommendations in a Large Metropolitan Behavioral Health
System," a Health Policy and Management
thesis defense seminar with Steven Lascher. E4013 SPH.
EB
Mon., Feb. 25, 2:30 p.m. "Molecular Design of
Organometalloenzymes," a special Chemistry seminar
with Yoshihito Watanabe, Nagoya University, Japan. 233
Remsen. HW
Special Events
Black History Month events. Various locations.
Mon., Feb. 18, 4:30 p.m. "Black Identity," with
William Cross, Cornell University, author of
Shades of Black: Diversity in African-American Identity.
110 Hodson. HW
Tues., Feb. 19, 4 p.m. "Tales of Enslavement: New
Research From Cliveden and the Chew Family
Papers," an illustrated lecture by Philip Seitz, Cliveden
of the National Trust. $6 general admission,
free for JHU Museums members and students. Bakst Theatre,
Evergreen Museum and Library.
Tues., Feb. 19, 6 p.m. Showing of the third part
of Spike Lee's When the Levees Broke: A
Requiem in Four Acts. Multipurpose Room, Charles Commons.
HW
Wed., Feb. 20, 2 p.m. "African-Americans'
Technical Contributions: Past, Present and Future," an
APL colloquium with James Turner, National Institute of
Standards and Technology. Co-sponsored by
the APL Black History Month Committee. Parsons Auditorium.
APL
Thurs., Feb. 21, 2 p.m. "Photobiologics and Our
Threadbare Social: Imagining a Critical Theory
of Trauma," a Center for Africana Studies lecture by
Maurice Stevens, Ohio State University. 228
Garland (The President's Boardroom). HW
Thurs., Feb. 21, 4 p.m. Martin Luther King Jr.
Convocation, with keynote speaker Patricia
Jessamy, Baltimore City state's attorney. Bunting-Meyerhoff
Interfaith Center. HW
Fri., Feb. 22, 6 to 8 p.m. Poetry slam at the Den,
3327 St. Paul St.
Sat., Feb. 23, 10 a.m. "The Abolition of the
Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Context of
Atlantic Slave Systems," a special lecture by Franklin
Knight, KSAS. Sponsored by the Center for
Africana Studies. By invitation only; for information go to
www.jhu.edu/africana. The Reginald F. Lewis
Museum of Maryland African-American History.
Sun., Feb. 24, 10 a.m. Special church service. Mt.
Zion Hill Baptist Church, 4800 Harford Rd.
Mon., Feb. 18 through Fri., Feb. 22. National Engineers
Week celebration, honoring the contributions
made by engineers throughout history and around the world;
featuring lectures, workshops and social
events. (See story, "Whiting School celebrates National
Engineers Week," in this issue.) Various
locations. HW
Mon., Feb. 25, 3 to 5 p.m. Welcome reception for
Nobel laureate Peter Agre, with Dean Michael Klag,
SPH. Sponsored by the Office of the Dean. E2030 SPH
(Feinstone Hall). EB
Theater
Fri., Feb. 22, and Sat., Feb. 23, 8 p.m.; Sun., Feb. 24,
2 p.m. Theatre Hopkins opens its 2008 season
with Rebecca Gilman's drama Spinning Into Butter. Tickets
are $15 and $5 for student rush tickets at
curtain time, if space allows. The play runs through March
2. Swirnow Theater, Mattin Center. HW
Workshops
Thurs., Feb. 21, 1 p.m. "Intermediate Photoshop
Tips," a Center for Educational Resources workshop
with Reid Sczerba. Register at www.cer.jhu.edu. Garrett
Room, MSE Library. HW
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