Dayle B. DeLancey

Biography

Dayle B. DeLancey, Ph.D. joined the Department of Medical History and Bioethics as an Assistant Professor in October 2009. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch, having received her Ph.D. and M.Sc. from CHSTM at the University of Manchester (UK) in Autumn 2007 and Autumn 2003, respectively, and her M.A. in English and American Literature from Harvard University in 1994. Dayle’s main project is a book manuscript that explores how African Americans viewed and experienced smallpox vaccination in the 19th and early-20th centuries and smallpox inoculation (‘variolation’) in the 18th century. This work encapsulates her broader research and teaching interests in the 19th- and 20th-c. history and ethics of African-American health experiences, U.S. public health (esp. vaccination and disaster relief campaigns), medical technologies (esp. vaccines and pharmaceuticals), the public understanding of medicine (esp. fears, myths, and rumors), and race and gender in medicine. Explorations of discourse and print culture inform much of her work, a reflection of her earlier research and publication activities in American literature.

Education

Ph.D., CHSTM, University of Manchester (UK), History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, 2007.

M.Sc., CHSTM, University of Manchester (UK), History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, 2003.

M.A., Harvard University, English & American Literature & Language, 1994.

B.A., Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, History and Literature, 1992

Professional Experience

Assistant Professor, Department of Medical History and Bioethics, UW-Madison, 2009-present.

Assistant Professor, University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Galveston, Texas, April 2007-August 2009.

Honors and Awards

Finalist, Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics, “‘Race’ and the Ethics of Pharmaceutical and Vaccine Research” (2007-2008).

Funded Participant, First Ittingen Summer School: The Cunning of Science (Ittingen, Switzerland), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and the University of Konstanz, “The Strange Career of Vaxgen: African Americans and Experimental HIV/AIDS Vaccines” (2004).

Fellowships and Grants

Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies Resident Research Fellowship, Library Company of Philadelphia and Historical Society of Pennsylvania, “Vaccines against Smallpox and Polio and the Philadelphia Negro's Struggle for Agency in Public Health and Medicine: 1915-1965” (2004-2005).

Francis C. Wood Institute for the History of Medicine Resident Research Fellowship, College of Physicians of Philadelphia, “African Americans and Smallpox Vaccination in 19th- and 20th-Century Philadelphia” (2004-2005).

Publications

Selected Publications (* denotes refereed book chapter or article)

* In Press: “AIDSVAX and Clinical Trials: HIV/AIDS Vaccine Research and the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.” In Perspectives on Twentieth-Century Pharmaceuticals, edited by Viviane Quirke and Judy Slinn. Oxford and Bern: Peter Lang, 2009.

* Under Review: “Vaccinating Freedom: Smallpox Prevention and the Discourses of African-American Citizenship in Antebellum Philadelphia.”

* In Progress: “Reading Slavery, Smallpox, and Inoculation in the Pennsylvania Gazette, 1730-1800.”

“‘How Could It Not Be Haunted?’ The Haunted Hospital as Historical Record and Ethics Referendum.” Atrium: The Report of the Northwestern Bioethics and Humanities Program (special issue, Haunting) 6(2009), 1, 2, and 14. (Also available here: http://bioethics.northwestern.edu/atrium/pdf/atriumissue6.pdf)

Christy A. Rentmeester and Dayle B. DeLancey, (Case Study and Commentary) “Trust, Translation, and HAART [Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy],” Hastings Center Report 38.6(2008): 13-14.

* “Sweetness, Madness, and Power: The Confection as Mental Contagion in Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby, Song of Solomon, and The Bluest Eye.” In Process: A Journal of African-American and African Diasporan Literature and Culture (University of Maryland at College Park) 2.1(2000): 25-47.

Courses

MHB 668: Medical Technologies in Historical Perspective