How ultrasound first came to new England

Diagnostic ultrasound came to Yale in the 1960s and was first developed in Glasgow and London. This story tells us that ultrasound was well-established in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Yale University School of Medicine in the Yale-New Haven Hospital by 1970. By then it had caught up with the pioneers in New York, Denver, and even Glasgow.     

Pediatric grand rounds: a tribute to Norman J. Siegel, M.D

At ceremonies held in Baltimore Maryland on May, 4, 2002, Dr. Howard A Pearson, Professor of Pediatrics, was awarded the John A. Howland award of the American Pediatric Society, probably the most prestigious award of American Pediatrics. Dr. Pearson had been nominated for the award by Dr. Norman Siegel. The Department of Pediatrics Grand Rounds on Wednesday noon, October 26, 2002 was originally scheduled as a repetition of the presentation by Dr. Siegel and the acceptance by Dr. Pearson for those who could not be in Baltimore. However; in a number of meetings, unknown to Dr. Siegel, it was unanimously decided that it would be very appropriate to instead honor him as he stepped down from his position as Vice- and Interim Chairman of Pediatrics, and to formally thank him for his long and faithful service to the Department of Pediatrics, the Yale University School of Medicine, and the Yale New Haven Hospital.     

Personal Meaning, Self-Representation, and Agency in Some Recent Works

Inuit Morality Play: The Emotional Education of. Three-Year-Old. Jean L. Briggs. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998. 275 pp.
The Power of Feelings: Personal Meaning in Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Culture. Nancy J. Chodorow. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999. 320 pp.
Identity and Agency in Cultural Worlds. Dorothy Holland. William Lachicotte Jr. Debra Skinner. and Carol Cain. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. 349 pp.     

The early years of coeducation at the Yale University School of Medicine.

The Yale School of Medicine began accepting women as candidates for the degree of medicine in the fall of 1916. This decision was consistent with the trend in medical education at the time. While Yale was not the first prestigious Eastern medical school to admit women, joining Johns Hopkins (1893) and the University of Pennsylvania (1914), it was not one of the last. Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons admitted women a year later, but Harvard Medical School held out until 1945. The years 1916--1920 saw the number of women enrolled in medical school almost double. Yale''s decision to admit women seems to have been made with little resistance from the faculty. The final decision was made through the encouragement and financial help of Henry Farnam, a professor of economics at Yale, who agreed to pay for the women''s bathrooms. His daughter, Louise, was in the first class of women. At graduation she was awarded the highest scholastic honors, the Campbell Gold Prize. From Yale she travelled to the Yale-sponsored medical school in Changsha, China, where she became the first female faculty member, a position she held for twelve years. The impressions of Ella Clay Wakeman Calhoun, the only woman to graduate in the second class of women, are presented here. Since 1916 the Yale School of Medicine has undergone extensive physical and philosophical changes, developments in which women have participated.     

The camera eye as I witness: Sceptical reflections on the “Hidden Messages” of Anthropology and Photography, 1860–1920

Edwards, Elizabeth, ed. Anthropology and Photography, 1860–1920. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, in association with the Royal Anthropological Institute, 1992, illus., index, xi, 275 pp, £19.95.     

Studying Schools, Studying Ourselves: Ethnographic Perspectives on Educational Reform

Reform and Resistance in Schools and Classrooms: An Ethnographic View of the Coalition of Essential Schools. Donna E. Muncey and Patrick J. McQuillan. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996. 319 pp.
How It Works: Inside. School-College Collaboration. Sidney Trubowitz and Paul Longo. New York: Teachers College Press, 1997. 172 pp.
Studying Your Own School: An Educator's Guide to Qualitative Practitioner Research. Gary L. Anderson. Kathryn Herr. and Ann Sigrid Nihlen. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, 1994. 203 pp.     

Unearthing Gotham: The Archaeology of New York City.

Unearthing Gotham: The Archaeology of New York City. Anne-Marie Cantwell and Diana diZerega Wall. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001. 374 pp.     

A History of Dogs in the Early Americas

. History of Dogs in the Early Americas. Marion Schwartz. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997. 233 pp.     

Merit and Blessing in Mainland Southeast Asia in Comparative Perspective

Merit and Blessing in Mainland Southeast Asia in Comparative Perspective. Cornelia Ann Kammerer and Nicola Tannenbaum. eds. Yale Southeast Asia Studies, 45. New Haven, CT: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 1996. 263 pp.     

Chicken: The Dangerous Transformation of America's Favorite Food

Chicken: The Dangerous Transformation of America's Favorite Food. Steve Striffler. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005. 195 pp.     

Moses and Civilization: The Meaning behind Freud's Myth

Moses and Civilization: The Meaning behind Freud's Myth. Robert A. Paul. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996.268 pp.     

Gender Ideology and Psychological Reality: An Essay on Cultural Reproduction

Gender Ideology and Psychological Reality: An Essay on Cultural Reproduction. Melford E. Spiro. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997. 220 pp.     

Carnival and Culture: Sex, Symbol, and Status in Spain

Carnival and Culture: Sex, Symbol, and Status in Spain. David D. Gilmore. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998. 244 pp.     

Sickness and Healing: An Anthropological Perspective

Sickness and Healing: An Anthropological Perspective. Robert A. Hahn. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995 (cloth and paper), viii. 327 pp.     

Reform and Resistance in Schools and Classrooms: An Ethnographic View of the Coalition of Essential Schools

Reform and Resistance in Schools and Classrooms: An Ethnographic View of the Coalition of Essential Schools. Donna E. Muncey and Patrick J. McQuillan New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996. 320 pp.     

Book Reviews: Keith Thomson, Before Darwin: Reconciling God and Nature (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005), xiv + 314 pp., illus., $27.00.

Book Review

Book Reviews: Keith Thomson, Before Darwin: Reconciling God and Nature (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005), xiv + 314 pp., illus., $27.00.     

Agrarian Studies: Synthetic Work at the Cutting Edge.

Agrarian Studies: Synthetic Work at the Cutting Edge. James C. Scott and Nina Bhatt. eds. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001. 320 pp.     

Rethinking Power and Culture in Anthropology

Who Can Compete against the World? Power-Protection and Buddhism in Shan Woridview. Nicola Tannenbaum. Ann Arbor, MI: Association of Asian Studies, 1995.228 pp.
State Power and Culture in Thailand. E. Paul Durrenberger. ed. Yale Southeast Asia Studies Monograph, 44. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996. 200 pp.     

The Essential Edmund Leach. Vol. 1: Anthropology and Society; Vol. 2: Culture and Human Nature.

The Essential Edmund Leach. Vol. 1: Anthropology and Society; Vol. 2: Culture and Human Nature. Stephen Hugh-Jones and James Laidlaw. eds. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 2000. 395 pp. and 420 pp.     

Indigenous Peoples and the State: Politics, Land and Ethnicity in the Malayan Peninsula and Borneo.

Indigenous Peoples and the State: Politics, Land and Ethnicity in the Malayan Peninsula and Borneo. Robert L. Winzeler. ed. New Haven, CT: Yale University Council on Southeast Asia Studies, 1997. 316 pp.