This panels honors the work of Mary Lindemann, 2020 president of the AHA. Her groundbreaking Health and Healing in Eighteenth-Century Germany and her widely read Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe established her as a preeminent scholar in the history of medicine in the 1990s. She introduced a wider audience to the “new history of medicine” that tackled outdated theories of uninterrupted progress in the fields of science and medicine, of medical professionalization, and of the dominant role of the state in leading these developments. The presentations in this panel pay tribute to Lindemann's original research but also expand on the ways the field of medicine and science has expanded in exciting new ways. The papers by Ameenah Shakir and Julia Roos discuss the relationship between race and practices of medicine. Ameenah Shakir highlights the life of Dr. Helen Dickens to discuss the problem of racial disparities in healthcare, specifically cancer prevention, in Philadelphia after WWII. Julia Roos, drawing on post-1945 applications for reparation by biracial Germans forcedly sterilized in the Third Reich, explores the ways in which antiblack racism continued to shape eugenic and medical discourses in the early Federal Republic. Finally, Donna Harsch’s presentation demonstrates that medical language was not the sole prerogative of male practitioners of medicine; pregnant women and their relatives in postwar East Germany mobilized rhetorics of mental distress in order to seek approval of abortion. The chair is David Warren Sabean, Henry J. Bruman Endowed Professor of German history Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor of European History at the University of California, Los Angeles.