This is the 2023 John C. Burnham Lecture. The John C. Burnham Lecture Series in the History of Medicine/Science was established in 2000 with gifts from Professor Burnham’s wife, Marjorie Burnham. The Ohio State University Department of History and the Medical Heritage Center at The Ohio State University Health Sciences Library are joint sponsors.
Johanna Schoen will offer a brief history of the establishment of the country’s first NICUs in the 1960s and discuss the emergence of parent/patient activism in neonatology as parents began to question aggressive NICU treatment. Bioethical debates about when to treat severely ill infants, when not to treat, and how much influence to give parents in these decisions stand at the center of these debates.
About the Speaker
Johanna Schoen is professor of History at Rutgers University-New Brunswick with an affiliation at the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research. She is the author of two books: Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare in the Twentieth Century, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005) and Abortion After Roe (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2015) which won the Welch Medal of the American Association for the History of Medicine. In addition, she has edited an anthology on Abortion Care as Moral Work: Ethical Considerations of Maternal and Fetal Bodies (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2022). For the past decades, she has worked with abortion providers to preserve the history of legal abortion in the United States and to use historical analysis and insights to help preserve access to abortion care. She is now working on a book, Life and Death in the Nursery, on the history of Neonatal Intensive Care Units. In her spare time, Schoen volunteers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center where she is currently co-chair of the Patient and Family Advisory Council, a member of the Ethics and the LGBTQ Committee, and works on improving end of life conversations between clinicians, patients, and caregivers.
Sponsored by the Medical Heritage Center at The Ohio State University Health Sciences Library & The Ohio State Department of History.
Map and Directions
The Faculty Club Club is located at 181 South Oval Drive, between Orton Hall and Mirror Lake.
To access The Club from 315, take the Lane Ave. exit. Go east towards the main campus and turn right (south) at High Street. Nearest public parking is the Ohio Union Garage Parking Garage "C". The "C" garage is located south of the Wexner Center on the west side of High Street and is accessible from both High Street and College Road. If the parking garage is used, exit the garage on College Road and walk west along the south side of the Oval.
There is limited surface parking around The Club. From High Street turn right (west) at 12th Avenue. Turn right at College Road. Turn left at Hagerty Drive and proceed to the end. Turn right and The Club will be on your left. You may park in front of the Club or Orton Hall with the proper OSU parking pass.
Parking Options: Before 3:30 pm; M-F
1. University "A" Parking Permits allow for use of the Surface Lot directly in front of the club or Orton Hall
2. Members/Guests without University "A" Permits have the following parking options:
a. Purchase a "Surface Lot" day pass from the catering/membership office: $10.25
b. Utilize "Pay and Display" spaces directly East of the club and behind Orton Hall (limited availability)
c. Utilize Ohio Union South Garage located off College Road and a 5 minute walk to the club
Parking Options: After 3:30 pm; M-F and Weekend Events
1. The Surface Lot located directly in front of the club and Orton Hall is available to all members and guests, complimentary with the display of an official club pass. Parking passes will be on display and available for pickup in the club lobby.
If you have additional questions regarding parking at The Faculty Club, contact the Club directly at 614-292-2262.
