Contacts
Departments
Mike
Dorn, Lecturer
Coordinator of Disability Studies, Institute on
Disabilities
Ritter
Hall 262
1301 Cecil B. Moore Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19122-6091
phone:
(215) 204-3373
e-mail: mdorn@temple.edu
Education
2002 Ph.D. University of Kentucky, Lexington, Geography1994 M.S. Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Geography
1990 B.S. Ohio State University, Columbus, Architecture
Areas of Professional Interest
- History of Medical Education
- Cultural Geography
- Interdisciplinary Social Theory
- Disability Studies
- History of American Science and Medicine
My recent
research
has focused on U.S. historical geography, capitalist
social transformations (particularly regarding patterns of
alcohol
consumption and alcoholism), and social theories of scientific
rationality
and the body. My dissertation links these themes through the study
of
early
nineteenth century medical education and geographic writing of
race,
alcohol, and temperance reform in the Mississippi River Valley. I
am also
embarking upon new projects that build upon earlier work in
Geography
and
Disability. I look forward to hearing from other researchers in
this
burgeoning research area.
Recent Scholarship
Dorn, M. L.,
‘Climate,
alcohol and the American body politic: The medical
and moral geographies of Daniel Drake (1785-1852),’ Ph.D.
dissertation,
University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky, December 2002.
Dorn, M. L., and Metzel, D. S., ‘Introduction - Disability
Geography:
Commonalities in a world of differences,’ Disability Studies
Quarterly
21(4), 2001.
Craddock, S. and Dorn, M. L., ‘Guest Editorial:
Nationbuilding:
Gender, race
and medical discourse,’ Journal of Historical Geography
27(3): pp.
313-318,
2001.
Dorn, M. L., ‘(In)temperate zones: Daniel Drake's
medico-moral geographies
of urban life in the trans-Appalachian American West,’
Journal of
the
History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 55(3): 256-291, 2000.
Dorn, M. L., ‘Beyond nomadism: The travel narratives of a
"cripple",’
in
Heidi J. Nast and Steve Pile, eds. Places Through the Body ,
Routledge:
London & New York, pp. 183-206, 1998.
R. Shields, Dorn, M. L., Schumann, D., Seifen, D.,
‘Interview of
Hubert
Dreyfus, Becoming skilled in doing what's appropriate: The
nonreflective
rationality of ethical expertise,’ disClosure 5:3-26,
1996.
Website
http://isc.temple.edu/neighbor/dorn.html