SSHM Annual Conference 2006
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Practices and Representations of Health: Historical Perspectives
28-30 June 2006
University of Warwick
Coventry, United Kingdom
The Society for the Social History of Medicine 2006 Annual Conference,
'Practices and Representations of Health: Historical Perspectives',
jointly organised by the Centres for the History of Medicine at the
Universities of Birmingham and Warwick, will be held at the University
of Warwick on 28-30 June 2006.
Keynote speakers: Susan E. Lederer (Yale University), Sir Geoffrey
Lloyd (Cambridge), and Charles E. Rosenberg (Harvard University).
Provisional Programme
The provisional programme is now available on-line in Word format:
click here. A list of speakers, including session day, time and
location, is also available: click here.
Registration is now closed.
SSHM Membership
To join the Society for the Social History of Medicine, please visit
the SSHM website: click here.
Directions to the University of Warwick
For information on how to get the University of Warwick, click here.
Please note in particular that the nearest coach and rail station is
COVENTRY.
Questions
If you have any questions or concerns regarding the conference, please
contact Molly Rogers, Administrator for the Centre for the History of
Medicine at Warwick (molly....@warwick.ac.uk or 024 7657 2601).
Programme Committee: Robert Arnott (University of Birmingham), Colin
Jones (University of Warwick), Hilary Marland (University of Warwick),
Jonathan Reinarz (University of Birmingham), Mathew Thomson (University
of Warwick).
SSHM Annual Conference 2006
Practices and Representations of Health: Historical Perspectives
28-30 June 2006, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
Provisional Programme: 18 May 2006
Wednesday, 28 June 2006
9.00 – 9.50 Coffee and Registration Science Concourse
9.50 – 10.00 Welcome Science LT3
10.00 – 11.15 Keynote Speaker
Professor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd (University of Cambridge)
Health, Values and Authority: Comparative Perspectives from Ancient
Greece and China
Chair: Mr Robert Arnott (Centre for the History of Medicine, Birmingham
University) Science LT3
11.15 – 12.45 Session One
Panel A: Engineering F107 Panel B: Engineering F110 Panel C:
Engineering F111 Panel D: LIB2
Early Modern Gender and Medicine
Chair: Sara Pennell
1. Sex, Generation and Health in Early Modern England (Lauren
Kassell)
2. Wielding the Syringe: Apothecaries, Gender and Medicine (Patrick
Wallis)
3. Little Men? Representations of Barbers and Their Work (Margaret
Pelling) Media and Representation
Chair: David Cantor
1. Making Health Visible: Expositions, Museums, and Hybrid Sites of
Display in the United States in the Early Twentieth Century (Julia
Brown)
2. Representing the Factory as a Site of Health Improvement in
Britain: The Health of Munition Workers Committee 1915-19 (Victoria
Long)
3. AIDS and the Death of the Poster (Roger Cooter / Claudia Stein)
4. From Morality to Mission: Representations of AIDS in the
Evangelical Mind (Stephen Inrig) Health in India
Chair: David Hardiman
1. The Politics of the Polio Eradication Campaign in Tribal India
(Gauri Raje)
2. The Body in the ‘Bank’: The Tamil Nadu Integrated Nutrition
Project (Devi Sridhar)
3. A Drug for Debility: Quinine in Colonial Calcutta (Rohan
DevRoy) Disability and Therapy
Chair: Mathew Thomson
1. ‘The Dance of Life’: Art and Orthopaedic Medicine in Early
Twentieth-Century Britain (Anne Borsay)
2. Filling the Empty Sleeves: Crisis Management in the Provision of
Artificial Limbs in the First World War (Stewart Emmens)
3. Gendered Representations of Physical Disability and Differentiated
Medical Practice for Boys and Girls in Switzerland (ca 1850-1910)
(Mariama Kaba)
12.45 – 13.45 Lunch Rootes Restaurant
13.45 – 15.15 Session Two
Panel A: Engineering F107 Panel B: Engineering F110 Panel C:
Engineering F111 Panel D: LIB2
The Sixth Non-natural: ‘Accidents of the Soul’ in Medieval
Healthcare
Chair: Claudia Stein
1. 'Accidents of the Soul': the Emotions in Late Medieval
Preventative Medicine (Caroline Proctor)
2. Death, Doctors and the Soul: Emotional Attitudes Towards Death and
Dying in Late Medieval Europe (Iona McCleery)
3. Revenge and Rehabilitation: Passion and the Female Healer in
Medieval Literature (April Harper) Patient Movements and Illegal Drugs:
The Place of the User
Chair: Toine Pieters
1. Medicalising Cannabis: Health Activism; Lay Advocacy; Alternative
Medicine and Policy (Suzanne Taylor)
2. From Voluntary Sector to ‘User Group’: User Activism in British
Drug Policy Since the 1960s (Virginia Berridge)
3. Complimentary Rather than Alternative? Self-help and
Professionalism in the Establishment of the Phoenix House Therapeutic
Community for the Rehabilitation of Drug Addicts, 1968-1974 (Alex
Mold) Health and Disease in American Public Education Movies,
1930s-1950s
Presented by David Cantor
A programme of short films made for such organisations as the American
Cancer Society and the National Tuberculosis Association will be shown.
The films are from the collection of the National Library of Medicine
in Bethesda, Maryland. Cancer in the Twentieth Century: Representations
and Practices
Chair: John Pickstone
1. Cancer Personalities: The Cultural History of a Concept (Joanna
Baines)
2. Watching, Waiting, and Finding: Breast Cancer Screening and
Diagnostic Technologies in Britain, 1955 – 1985 (Elizabeth Toon)
3. Hope and Despair: The Treatment of Lung Cancer in Britain, circa
1940-1990 (Carsten Timmerman)
4. Cancer, Chemotherapy and the Randomized Clinical Trial (Helen
Valier)
15.15 – 16.45 Session Three
Panel A: Engineering F107 Panel B: Engineering F110 Panel C:
Engineering F111 Panel D: LIB2
Medieval Medical Encounters
Chair: Monica Green
1. Attitudes to the Cause of Disease During the Crusades: Divine
Intervention or Airs, Waters and Places? (Piers Mitchell)
2. Magic of the Moors: Judeo-Islamic Exchange and Medical Practice in
Morocco (Ellen Amster)
3. Pozzuoli and Salerno: The Heated Contest Between Balneotherapeutic
Traditions and Learned Textual Scholarship in Medieval Italy (Florence
Eliza Glaze) Issues in Neuroscience
Chair: Vicky Long
1. Cocaine in a Colonial Culture: Dangerous Drugs, Medicines and
Tonics in British India, c.1900-c.1930 (James Mills)
2. The Maudsley Model of Psychiatry, 1923 to 1939 (Edgar Jones)
3. Lobotomized, in Good Working Condition: Medicalized Representations
of Work and Work-Ethics in the Practice of Psychosurgery in the US
(1940-1955) (Mical Raz) Medicine in Asia
Chair: Mark Harrison
1. Nurturing Life and Nourishing the Body: Regimen and Hygiene in the
Daily life of Sixteenth-Seventeenth Century China (Hsiu-fen Chen)
2. Discovering ‘The Secrets of Long and Healthy Life’: John
Dudgeon on Hygiene in China (Shang-Jen Li)
3. ‘Unfortunately Apt to Induce Vomiting’: Imperial Medicine and
the Mass- Market in Anti-Malarials in Colonial South Asia (Patricia
Barton) Cultural Readings of Medical Encounters
Chair: Flurin Condrau
1. The Good Samaritan (Suzanne Nunn)
2. 'Knocking at the Door of Europe': British Representations of the
Third Pandemic of Bubonic Plague, 1894-1918 (Myron Echenberg)
3. Invention of the ‘Magyar’ by Medical and Human Sciences Around
1900 (Emese Lafferton)
16.45 – 17.15 Coffee / Tea Engineering Lobby
17.15 – 18.45 Session Four
Panel A: Engineering F107 Panel B: Engineering F110 Panel C:
Engineering F111 Panel D: LIB2
Varieties of Early Modern Medicine
Chair: Hal Cook
1. Toward a Genealogy of Female Health: Treatises of ‘Maladies des
Femmes” and Slave Diseases in Early Modern France (Elsa Dorlin)
2. Strange Climes and Sickly Seasons: Health of the British soldier in
America (Tabitha Marshall)
3. Defying Death: Old Age and Physical Immortality in
Seventeenth-Century England (David Haycock)
Mad Cats and Dogs
Chair: Bill Luckin
1. The Reception of Pasteur’s Rabies Treatment in Britain (Michael
Worboys)
2. ‘A Plague of Cats’: Vermin, Race and Rabies in Zambia, 1930 -
1975 (Lyn Schumaker)
3. The Dog Days: Class, Rabies and Dogs in Early Victorian England
(Neil Pemberton)
Varieties of Medical Practice in the Nineteenth and Twentieth
Centuries
Chair: Martin Gorsky
1. From Vaccine Therapy to Phytotherapy and Spiritual Healing: the
Strange Medical Odyssey of Dr Edward Bach (1886-1936) (Michael Clark)
2. From Well Woman to Hydrotherapist: Women Practitioners at the Water
Cure 1840-1940 (Jane Adams)
3. Airs, Altitudes and Places: Concepts and Practices of the Good Air
of the Alps (Vincent Barras / Daniela Vaj)
4. Medical Itinerants in Mid-Nineteenth Century Provincial Ireland
(Elizabeth Neswald) Victorian Emotions
Chair: Jonathan Reinarz
1. Sympathy Under the Knife: Medical Experiment and the Healing Art in
Late Victorian Britain (Paul White)
2. Cemeteries, Health, and Respectability in Victorian London (Peter
Thorsheim)
3. Emotional Life in a Welsh Asylum, 1848-1914 (Pamela Michael)
4. When it Hurts to Look: Interpreting the Interior of the Woman in
Victorian Medicine (Kathryn Miele)
18.45 – 19.15 Free time
19.15 – 20.15 Drinks Reception hosted by the SSHM - with presentation
of festschrift to Dr Charles Webster
Hosted by Dr Flurin Condrau, Chair, Society for the Social History of
Medicine Panorama Rooms (Rootes)
20.15 Conference Dinner Panorama Rooms (Rootes)
Thursday, 29 June 2006
8.00 – 9.00 Wellcome Trust Funding Surgeries
Conference delegates are invited to attend informal surgeries with
staff from the Wellcome Trust Science Concourse
9.00 – 10.15 Keynote Speaker
Professor Susan E. Lederer (Yale University)
Hearts and Minds: Cardiac Transplantation in the 1960s
Chair: Dr Mathew Thomson (Centre for the History of Medicine,
University of Warwick) Science LT3
10.15 – 10.45 Coffee / Tea and Poster Viewing Science Concourse
10.45 – 12.15 Session Five
Panel A: Engineering F107 Panel B: Engineering F110 Panel C:
Engineering F111 Panel D: LIB2
Governing Health: Physicians, Artisans and Patients
Chair: Michael Stolberg
1. Shops and Medical Practice in Early Modern Geneva (Philip Rieder)
2. Practicing Medicine in Early Modern Geneva Through Consilia Medica:
The Case of Quercetanus (Concetta Pennuto)
3. Regulating Medical Practices: The Role of the State Council and the
Consistory Court (Christine Tourn) Representations of the Sexed Body in
Medicine and Society
Chair: Heather Perry
1. The Making of the Heterosexual Body in Sex Education, 1900s-1970s
(Lutz Sauerteig)
2. The Making of Femininity Through Surgery in the First Half of the
Twentieth Century (Marion Hulverscheidt)
3. Challenging Sex Differences When Becoming Old: Discourses On the
‘Male Menopause’ in Twentieth-century German Medicine (Hans-Georg
Hofer) ‘In a Class of Their Own’: Writing the History of Child
Health
Chair: Neil Pemberton
1. Larger Slices of the Pie: The Emergence of Cancer as a Major Child
Killer, 1930 to 1980 (Emm Barnes)
2. The Disappearance of Childhood?: the Medical Management of
Troublesome Behaviour in School, c.1970 to the Present (Marie
Reinholdt)
3. ‘An Excess of Care’: The Creation of Retrolental Fibroplasia,
1941-1960 (Julia Anderson) The Public Representation of a Nation’s
Health: The Collection of Vital Statistics in Scotland
Chair: Virginia Berridge
1. An Inspector Calls: Monitoring Vital Registration in
Mid-Nineteenth-Century Scotland (Anne Cameron)
2. By Death Divided: Scottish and English Approaches to Death
Certification in the Nineteenth Century (Anne Crowther)
3. The Vital Statistics of Contentious Death in Early
Twentieth-Century Scotland (Gayle Davis)
12.15 – 13.15 Lunch Rootes Restaurant
13.15 – 14.30 Keynote Speaker
Professor Charles E. Rosenberg (Harvard University)
Erwin H. Ackerknecht as Historian of Medicine: Social Medicine and the
History of Medicine in Mid-Twentieth Century
Chair: Professor Hilary Marland (Centre for the History of Medicine,
University of Warwick) Science LT3
14.30 – 16.00 Session Six
Panel A: Engineering F107 Panel B: Engineering F110 Panel C:
Engineering F111 Panel D: LIB2
Quantifying Selves
Chair: Peter Miller
1. Weighing the Self in Eighteenth-Century England (Lucia Dacome)
2. Exemplary Eating: The ‘Economic’ Lifestyle in Paris, 1760-1790
(Emma Spary)
3. Maintenance and Work: The Science of Nutrition in
Nineteenth-Century France (Dana Simmons) Fit to Compete? Testing,
Analysing and Screening Athletes in the Twentieth Century
Chair: Dan O’Connor
1. Sport Psychology: Another Cuckoo in the Coaching Nest (David Day)
2. Better and Safer Boxing: Ringside and Boardroom Medical Control of
Boxing Careers in the Twentieth Century (Neil Carter)
3. A Crude and Degrading Way to Ensure Fair Play: Sex and Gender
Testing in International Sporting Events (Vanessa Heggie) Healthy
Babies
Chair: Lisa Smith
1. Spatial Patterns of Midwives’ Influence in Nineteenth-Century
Sweden: The Case of the Sundsvall Region (Stephan Curtis)
2. Fulfilling a Prophecy of Problems: The Rise and Fall of the Glasgow
Infant Milk Depot 1904-1910 (Angus Ferguson / Lawrence Weaver)
3. Spotlight on the Fetus: Producing Healthy Babies (Linda Bryder)
Medicine, Religion and the Construction of Sexuality in
Twentieth-Century Ireland
Chair: Catherine Cox
1. Moral Prescription: The Irish Medical Profession and the
Prohibition of Birth Control in Twentieth-Century Ireland (Lindsey
Earner-Byrne)
2. Medical Professionals, Interest-Group Politics and Venereal Disease
Policy in Independent Ireland 1922-51 (Susannah Riordan)
3. Prophylactics and Prejudice: Implementing VD Legislation in
Northern Ireland 1922-1945 (Leanne McCormick)
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee / Tea Engineering Lobby
16.30 – 18.00 Session Seven
Panel A: Engineering F107 Panel B: Engineering F110 Panel C:
Engineering F111 Panel D: LIB2
Madness in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Chair: Jim Mills
1. Pathologies of Dislocation: Clinical Nostalgia in
Post-Revolutionary French Medicine (Lisa O’Sullivan)
2. Writing Letters: Letter Writing and Psychiatric Practice in the
York Retreat, 1880-1900 (Louise Wannell)
3. Contraband Ideas, Medical Knowledge, and Faulty Translations:
Psychiatry Comes to the Americas (Dora Weiner) Medicine, Law and Ethics
Chair: Roger Cooter
1. The Medico-Legal Encounter in the Ancien Régime Courtroom (Cathy
McClive)
2. Euthanasia in Early Modern Popular Culture (Michael Stolberg)
3. ‘Foreign Agents Rejoice…’ Fifth Columnism in the Battle over
Vivisection in Early Cold War America (Ryan Noah Shapiro)
4. The Bond Girl and the Liberal Democrat: Transsexuality, Medicine
and British Law After Corbett v. Corbett (Daniel O’Connor) Parents
and Children
Chair: Ann Hardy
1. From a Cough to a Coffin: Mother’s Role in the Child’s Medical
Experience (Lisa Grant)
2. Sites of Conflict: Rights and Responsibilities in Nineteenth
Century Child Health - The Case of Clement Cattermole (Cathryn Wilson)
3. Who Let These Children In?: Child Health Care and the Northampton
General Infirmary (Andrew Williams)
4. Unrestricted Hospital Visiting Policy: A Historical Comparison
Between France and England (Sarra Mougel) Medicine, Identity and
Colonial Relationships: Nurses and Doctors in Twentieth Century Canada
Chair: Jane Adams
1. ‘Doctors of the Old School’ in Canada: Professional Identity,
Masculinity and Rural Medicine, c.1900-1930 (Sasha Mullally)
2. Adventure Narratives, Masculinity and Medicine: Arctic Doctors and
Imperial Expansion Literature, 1920-1960 (Myra Rutherdale)
3. ’A Fine Company of White Folks’: ‘Race’ and Belonging in
the Letters of Margaret Butcher (Mary-Ellen Kelm)
18.00 – 18.30 Free Time
18.30 – 20.00 Drinks Reception supported by The Wellcome Trust
During the reception, interdisciplinary artist Phillip Warnell will
present work related to the history of medicine in the Studio
Theatre Warwick Arts Centre
20.00 Dinner Rootes Restaurant
Friday, 30 June 2006
8.00 – 9.00 Wellcome Trust Funding Surgeries
Conference delegates are invited to attend informal surgeries with
staff from the Wellcome Trust Science Concourse
9.00 – 10.00 Keynote Speaker
Dr Anthony Woods (The Wellcome Trust)
Wellcome Trust History of Medicine Funding Strategy
Chair: Professor Colin Jones (Centre for the History of Medicine,
University of Warwick) Science LT3
10.00 – 11.30 Session Eight
Panel A: Engineering F107 Panel B: Engineering F110 Panel C:
Engineering F111 Panel D: LIB2
Imaging Conception and Birth in Premodern Europe, 1300-1800
Chair: Hilary Marland
1. Reuse, Renew, Recycle: Fetal Images and Obstetrical Innovation,
1300-1600 (Monica Green)
2. Treatises, Prayers, and Images: Methods of Ensuring Conception in
the Late Middle Ages (Elizabeth L’Estrange)
3. From Diagram to Anatomical Vision: Images of the Unborn, 1550-1800
(Lianne McTavish)
Therapeutics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Chair: Linda Bryder
1. The Plot Against Cancer: Will Prevention Supersede Early Detection?
- The Netherlands 1930s-1940s (Stephen Snelders)
2. ‘Self-Representation and Practice: Diagnosing and Treating
Diphtheria at Bart’s, 1890-1920 (Rosemary Wall)
3. Family ‘G’: Practices Around and Representations of a Cancer
Pedigree, 1895-2005 (Toine Pieters) Race and Medicine in America
Chair: Tim Lockley
1. Rethinking a Commonplace: Smallpox Vaccination, the Civil War-Era
Philadelphia Negro, and African Americans’ ‘Traditional’ Wariness
of Vaccination (Dayle DeLancey)
2. Suicide, Depression and Race in the Post-War United States (Andrew
Fearnley)
3. Monsters, Museums and the Southern Medical Profession (Stephen
Kenny) The Concentration Camp
Chair: Iain Smith
1. The British Concentration Camps During the South African War
(1899-1902): Mythology, Morbidity and Mortality (Iain Smith / Elizabeth
van Heyningen)
2. Representations of Health in the Historical Context: Medicine in
the GULAG (Oxana Klimkova)
3. The Medical Imagery of Liberation (Deborah Gómez)
11.30 – 12.00 Coffee / Tea and Awarding of Prizes Engineering
Lobby
12.00 – 13.30 Session Nine
Panel A: Engineering F107 Panel B: Engineering F110 Panel C:
Engineering F111 Panel D: LIB2
Approaches to the History of Medicine
Chair: Colin Jones
1. Romancing the Patient or Where is Medical History from Below Today?
(Flurin Condrau)
2. A Short History of Hardening (Vladimir Jankovic)
3. Resuscitating the Patient : Experiences of Hospitalisation in
Victorian England (Jonathan Reinarz)
Visualizing Recent Biomedicine and Public Health
Chair: Thomas Söderqvist
1. MR-Imaging and the Bio-Banalized Body: From Morphological to
Functional MRI-Visualisation of the Body (Isabelle Dussuage)
2. Conveying Virtual Reality to Medical Skills: The Case of Copenhagen
(Jan Eric Olsén)
3. Following the Visual Track of Epidemiologic Practice (Susanne
Bauer)
4. To Give to Global Genomes a Local Habitation and a Name: The
GeneChip as a Visualization Device (Thomas Söderqvist) Reinventing the
Body in (post) WWI Germany and Austria
Chair: Lutz Sauerteig
1. Engineering the Post-Human Body: Siemens and the Rationalization of
the Disabled in WWI Germany (Heather Perry)
2. Toward an Iconography of the Industrial Body: Fritz Kahn, Modernism
and the Origins of Conceptual Medical Illustration (Michael Sappol)
3. Fit for War and Work: Julius Tandler and Constitutional Medicine
Between World War I and ‘Red Vienna’ (Tatjana Buklijas) Minorities
and Medicine in Northern Norway 1850 - 1960: Cultural Representations
and Medical Practice
Chair: Michael Worboys
1. When Hypnotized, They Can Act as Hungry Wolves’: Sámi Rebels
from Religious Fanatics to Racially Disposed Mental Cases, c.
1850s-1960s (Astri Andresen)
2. Ethnicity and Health: Prejudice, Myth and Reality. The Case of the
Arctic Finns (the Kvens) (Einar Niemi)
3. Civilizing the ‘Uncivilized’: The Combat Against Tuberculosis
in Northern Norway, c.1900-1940 (Teemu Ryymin)
4. Sámi Psyche, Mental Health and Legal Accountability (Svein Atle
Skålevåg)
13.30 Lunch Rootes Restaurant
Departures
14.45 Meetings LIB2
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