ANNUAL CONFERENCE
JULY 16 - JULY 18 1999
UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
For further information contact James Bradley: jbradley@arts.gla.ac.uk
Friday 16 July
Noon - 2 pm: Registration
______________________________________________________
2 - 3.15 pm: Welcome and Plenary 1
John Harley Warner (Yale)- 'Bedside stories: performance, identity, and the image of objectivity'
_______________________________________________________
3.15-3.45 pm Coffee
_______________________________________________________
3.45-5.15pm: Parallel 1 (1 Session)
'The history of the medical profession in Brazil: strategies, identity and technology'
M. Andre de Faria Pereira Neto (Oswaldo Cruz Foundation)- 'A controversy concerning Brazilian medical identity. The National Medical Congress (1922)'
Madel T. Luz (University of Rio de Janeiro State)- 'Social history of homoeopathy in Brazil (1840-1990): the art of healing and the science of diseases'
Lilia B. Schraiber (University of Sao Paulo)- 'Technological medicine and professional practice: new challenges and dilemmas in Brazil (1930-1980)'
___________________________________________________
3.45-5.45pm: Parallel 2 (2 Sessions)
(1) 'Women 1'
Ellen More (Texas)-
'"Metaphors of 'balance" in the construction of women physicians' professional identity'
Kristin Kay Barker (Reed College)-
'Split identities / split alliances: women physicians and professionalization'
Paulette Meyer (Humboldt State)-
'Professional medicine and life reform: the practice and publications of Anna Fischer-Duckelmann (1856-1917), MD (Zurich 1896)'
Elaine Denny (University of Central England)-
'The emergence of district nursing in nineteenth-century England'
(2) (Post)Colonialism
Shang-Jen Li (The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine)-
'The professional identity of british medical men in nineteenth-century China: the controversy between Patrick Manson and the medical missionaries'
John Lwanda (University of Edinburgh)-
'Politics, culture and medicine: an unholy trinity? Hybridity and multiple identities in Malawi medicine'
Kalala Ngalamulume (Central Washington)-
'The contribution of medical professionals to the establishment of French colonial rule in Senegal, 1850-1920'
Aya Takahashi (Royal Holloway)-
'"The angel in the white uniform" and war: nationalism and the identity of the Japanese nurse, c.1880-1940'
5.45 - 6.45 pm: SSHM AGM
_______________________________________________________
Saturday (16 July)
9.00 - 10.30 am: Parallel 3 (3 Sessions)
(1) Defining Medical Crisis
Jessie Saul (Cornell)-
'Blood ties: The construction of the AIDS crisis in the blood systems of the United States and France'
Javier Lezaun (Cornell)-
'Territorial epidemics: meningitis and sovereignty in Spain'
Nick King (Harvard)-
'Chronicle of a disaster foretold: epidemic disease as medical commodity'
(2) Women II
Mary Ann Elston (Royal Holloway)-
'Consolidating a toehold in the citadel? Professional socialisation and identity for English medical women, 1876-1914'
Teresa Ortiz, Ana Tavora, Ana Delgado and Dolores Sanchez (Granada)-
'The Spanish Medical Women's Association (1965-78) and the construction of a female professional identity'
Liz Walker (Witwatersrand)-
'"Creating Spaces": the early years of the South African Society of Medical Women'
(3) Patients
Michael Stolberg (Munich)-
'The Patient's View: The Medical Profession in 18th-Century France'
Ted Blaisdell (Lehigh)-
'The Roots of Autonomy: Early Modern Thoughts on Autonomy in Richard Brome's The Antipodes'
Constance Malpas (Princeton)-
'Trousse and toilette: packaging Parisian medical authority, c.1830'
_______________________________________________________
10.30 - 11.00 am: Coffee / Tea
______________________________________________________
11.00 - 12.30 pm: Parallel 4 (3 Sessions)
(1) The Medical Hero and Historiography
Constantin Goschler (Harvard)-
'Rudolf Virchow and the scientific habit'
Christoph Gradmann (Heidleberg)-
'Robert Koch's scientific expeditions as private and public practice'
Andrew Mendelsohn (Max Plank Institute for the History of Science)-
'The technician of health'
(2) Lit. Crit.
Lisa Lynch (Rutgers)-
'Wee Willie Winkie in white: American medical jingoism in fiction and film, 1924-1938'
Don Madison (North Carolina)-
'Enhancing the popular image of the American medical profession: Sidney Kingsley's "Men in White" (1933)'
Tabitha Sparks (Washington)-
'Love (and medicine) in the time of cholera: Harriet Martineau's "Deerbrook" and the rise of the General Practitioner'
(3) Boundary Making
Jon Adams (Edinburgh)-
'Examining GPs' accounts of their complementary practice: identity, territory and boundary-construction.'
Hilary Marland (Warwick)-
'Boundaries of expertiese: doctors, patients and treating insanity of childbirth in the 19th century'
Helen Valier (WUHM, Manchester)-
'The trials of Pernicious Anaemia: identity and patronage in interwar British medicine' _______________________________________________________
12.30 - 1.30 pm: Lunch
_______________________________________________________
1.30 - 2.30 pm: Plenary Session 2
Chris Lawrence (WIHM, London)-
'Edward Jenner's Jockey Boots and the Great Tradition in English Medicine, 1918-39' _______________________________________________________
2.35 - 3.35 pm: Parallel 5 (4 Sessions)
(1) Public Health / Public Service
Biserka Belicza (Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts)-
'The development and status of medical specialists in Croatia in the 19th Century'
Pam Gilbert (Florida)-
'Conflict and professional self-definition: public medicine and religion in the mid-nineteenth century'
(2) Ultrasound
Malcolm Nicolson, Ian Spencer and John Fleming (WUHM, Glasgow & Queen's Belf.)- 'Holism and obstetric Ultrasound: Ian Donald as anti-abortion campaigner'
Debbie Nicholson (WUHM, Glasgow)-
'Transgressing professional boundaries? General Practitioners as 'Ultrasonologists' in the Western Isles'
(3) Sex
Ivan Crozier (University of New South Wales)-
'The professionalisation of sexology in fin de siecle England'
Wendy Kline (Munich)-
'How Dr Robert Dickinson convinced the medical profession that controlling conception was an essential component of American medicine'
(4) Quacks
Roberta Bivins (WUHM, Manchester)-
'Projecting the profession: seeing Chinese medicine through the lens of the ideal doctor'
Carsten Timmermann (CHSTM, Manchester)-
'Doctors and "the Other": the quackery question in interwar Germany'
_______________________________________________________
3.35 - 4.00 pm: Tea
_______________________________________________________
4.00 - 5.00 pm: Parallel 6 (4 Sessions)
(1) Narratives
Graham Smith (WUHM, Glasgow)-
'General Practitioners: narratives, memories and changing identities'
Katherine Webb (York Health Trust)-'Images and dreams-- provincial practitioners and professional identity in the mid-nineteenth-century city: evidence from Manchester and York'
(2) Drugs
Stuart Anderson (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)-
'The professionalisation of the hospital Pharmacist in Great Britain 1923 to 1991: occupational boundaries and specialisation'
Daniel Malleck (Royal Military College, Ontario)-
'Doctors, druggists and the control over dangerous medicines in Canada, 1870-1908'
(3) Museums
M. Rene Burmeister (Rutgers)-
'Professional decency versus "obscene advertising": constructing medical authority against "quack" museums'
Simon Chaplin (Royal College of Surgeons, England)-
'A tale of two museums: John Hunter, John Tomes and the professionalisation of dentistry'
(4) Ethics
Nadav Davidovitch (Tel-Aviv)-
'"Odium Medicum": The AMA Code of Ethics Controversy'
Donald Joralemon (Sophia Smith)-
'Doctors on donation: transplantation specialists debate solutions to the organ supply problem'
_______________________________________________________
5.00 - 6 pm: Plenary 3 (Presidential Address)
Prof. Sir Denis Pereira Gray (Pres. RCGP & Univ. Exeter)-
Title to be confirmed
_______________________________________________________
7 pm: Reception (Hunterian Museum)
8 pm: Dinner (Staff Club)
_______________________________________________________
Sunday 18 July
9 - 10.30 am: Parallel 7 (4 Sessions)
(1) Science and Psychiatry
Gayle Davis (Edinburgh)-
'Making Psychiatry scientific: the impact of the Laboratory on Clinical Psychiatry at the Royal Edinburgh Asylum, c.1873-1920'
Christine Leuenberger (Cornell)-
'The Berlin Wall on the therapists' couch: a study of the Psychotherapeutic community in transition'
Ian Spencer(Queen's Belfast)-
'R.D. Laing: a reactionary against the status quo'
(2) Comparisons I
Alexandra Bekasova (Russian Academy of Sciences)-
'The making of Russian doctors in Europe: academic peregrinations of Russian medical students, 1761-1798'
Motzi Ekloef (Tema Institute)-
'In Memoriam: the ideal Swedish doctor'
Yuean-ling Chao (Middle Tennessee State University)-
'The identity of physicians in late Imperial China: professionals?'
(3) Specialists
Karl Holubar (Vienna)-
'The making of Dermatologists in central Europe'
Stephanie Snow (WUHM, Manchester)-
'Establishing authority, creating identity. The beginnings of specialist Anaesthesia, 1846-1866'
Stella Fatovic-Ferencic (Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts)-
'The beginnings of Orthopeedics and rehabilitation in the territory of Croatia'
(4) Institutions
Hans Reichenfeld (Ottowa)-
'The Development of Medical Services-A Lesson from History: The Birmingham Provident Dispensary'
Susan Snoxall (University of West England)-
'The Chelsea Hospital for Women: Gynaecologists and the Care and Treatment of Women, 1930-1960'
Claire Jackson-
'The Member, the Fellow and the Franchise'
_______________________________________________________
10.30 - 11 am: Coffee / Tea
_______________________________________________________
10.30 - 11 am: Parallel 8 (3 Sessions)
(1) Jewishness
Eberhard Wolff (Robert Bosch Foundation, Stuttgart)-
'Medical professional identity as a means for Jewish acculturation'
Kenneth Collins (WUHM, Glasgow)-
'Asher Asher: religious physician and reformer'
(2) Careers
Timothy L. Alborn (Harvard)-
'Insurance against Germ Theory: commerce and conservatism in late-Victorian medicine'
Marguerite Dupree and Anne Crowther (Glasgow)-
'Medical networks and medical careers in the late nineteenth century: graduates from Scottish universities at home and abroad'
Susan Hardy (University of New South Wales)-
'"Dr Pringle and Mr Pratt": disharmony and disunity among the doctors in nineteenth-century New South Wales'
(3) Comparisons II
Rita M.J. Schepers (Leuven)-
'The Belgian and Dutch experience of professionalization'
Maria Eliana Labra (Oswald Cruz Foundation)-
'Medical interest politics and health policy in Chile'
Lianne McTavish (New Brunswick)-
'The performance of obstetrical authority in early-modern France'
_______________________________________________________
12.30 - 1.00 pm: Endnote
_______________________________________________________
Since 1970 The Society for the Social History of Medicine has been actively involved in the organization of specialised conferences and has facilitated research and debate within the discipline of the social history of medicine, with a particular emphasis on inter-disciplinary approaches.
The Society's conferences are open to non-members. However, membership of the Society entitles conference delegates to reduced registration fees and includes also subscription to a leading academic journal of international standing (_Social History of Medicine_) as well as 30% reduction on books published in the Society's Routledge series ('Studies in the Social History of Medicine'). SSHM membership stlg 29, student stlg 17. For membership details contact: Dr David Cantor, Department of History and Economic History, Manchester Metropolitan University, Geoffrey Manton Building, Manchester M15 6LL. e-mail: d.cantor@mmu.ac.uk
James Bradley
Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine,
5, University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ
0141 330-4803
email jbradley@arts.gla.ac.uk
OR
39/2 Constitution St., Edinburgh EH6 7BG
0131 467-0310
email j.bradley@cableinet.co.uk
Copyright ©1996-2002, H-Soz-u-Kult · Humanities · Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte