{"id":974,"date":"2016-01-22T10:44:44","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T16:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/?p=974"},"modified":"2016-01-22T16:16:15","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T22:16:15","slug":"january-28-injections-itches-and-institutions-the-experience-of-rural-medicine-in-iowa-1910-1950","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/2016\/01\/22\/january-28-injections-itches-and-institutions-the-experience-of-rural-medicine-in-iowa-1910-1950\/","title":{"rendered":"January 28: Injections, Itches, and Institutions: The Experience of Rural Medicine in Iowa, 1910-1950"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society and the Iowa Women\u2019s Archives<br \/>\ninvite you to hear:<br \/>\nInjections, Itches, and Institutions:<br \/>\nThe Experience of Rural Medicine in Iowa, 1910-1950<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/2016\/01\/22\/january-28-injections-itches-and-institutions-the-experience-of-rural-medicine-in-iowa-1910-1950\/speaker\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-977\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-977 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2016\/01\/speaker.png\" alt=\"speaker\" width=\"162\" height=\"238\" \/><\/a>Jennifer Gunn<br \/>\nHistory of Medicine Endowed Professor<br \/>\nDirector of the Institute for Advanced Study<br \/>\nUniversity of Minnesota<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left\">Thursday, January 28, 2016, 5:30-6:30<br \/>\nMedical Education Research Facility (MERF) 2117<\/h3>\n<p>Free and Open to the Public<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When Clara Skott, an Iowa farm wife living in South Dakota during the 1918 influenza pandemic, received a series of injections to stave off the flu, the hypodermic needle was a symbol of modern medical practice. Iowa doctors\u2019 ledger books show \u201chypos\u201d were a staple of their treatment repertoire. What was in the hypo was not always clear. Clara was given a homegrown influenza vaccine; other patients received barbiturates, vita-mins, or placebos. $1.00 for an injection was beyond the reach of many Iowans. This talk explores country doctors\u2019 practices and the range of ways rural Iowans handled health issues in the first half of the 20th century.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/2016\/01\/22\/january-28-injections-itches-and-institutions-the-experience-of-rural-medicine-in-iowa-1910-1950\/clara\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-976\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-976 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2016\/01\/clara.png\" alt=\"clara\" width=\"570\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2016\/01\/clara.png 570w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2016\/01\/clara-300x215.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>If you are a person with a disability requiring an accommodation in order to participate in this program, please contact Donna Hirst, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences (donna-hirst@uiowa.edu), 335-9154. The UI History of Medicine Society website is located at: http:\/\/hosted.lib.uiowa.edu\/histmed\/<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society and the Iowa Women\u2019s Archives invite you to hear: Injections, Itches, and Institutions: The Experience of Rural Medicine in Iowa, 1910-1950 &nbsp; Jennifer Gunn History of Medicine Endowed Professor Director of the Institute for Advanced Study University of Minnesota Thursday, January 28, 2016, 5:30-6:30 Medical Education Research<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/2016\/01\/22\/january-28-injections-itches-and-institutions-the-experience-of-rural-medicine-in-iowa-1910-1950\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;January 28: Injections, Itches, and Institutions: The Experience of Rural Medicine in Iowa, 1910-1950&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[29,33,28,30,31,34,32],"syndication":[20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2014,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions\/2014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}