Travelling Knowledge

Call for Papers.

2007 BI-ANNUAL ANGLO-DUTCH-GERMAN WORKSHOP

Das Institut für Geschichte der Medizin der Robert Bosch Stiftung in Stuttgart veranstaltet zusammen mit der Faculteit der Culturrwetenschappen der Universität Maastricht und dem Centre for the History of Medicine and Humanities Research Centre an der University of Warwick sowie dem Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine am University College London eine Tagung zum Thema:

„Travelling Knowledge“

Ort: London, Wellcome Trust Centre

Date: 21, 22, 23 June (Thu/Fri/Sat) 2007

Die Reisekosten werden von den Veranstaltern übernommen.

Wir bitten um Vorschläge für Referate, die sich thematisch an der untengenannten Stichwortliste orientieren. Ein Abstract von maximal 15 Zeilen (auf englisch) ist erwünscht.

Vorschläge bitte bis zum 30.10.2006 per e-mail: an: robert.juetteigm-bosch.de

The production, migration, internationalisation, and indigenization of knowledge has been much discussed in the history of science and psychology. Far less attention has been paid to the exchange, transfer, and circulation of medical and biomedical knowledge, skills, and technologies between regions, nations and empires. Nor has much interest been taken in the agents and agencies involved in these transportations. This workshop seeks to address this relatively neglected topic. Put simply, it asks ‘how exactly does ‘medicine’ travel?’. In particular, it seeks to explore how locally produced knowledges and practices are distributed, exchanged, and shared, and to what effect. How does medicine differ from science in these respects – does the attachment to patients make a difference? What are the problems of translation, literally and metaphorically?

The Workshop welcomes methodological papers as well as empirical and/or comparative case studies. Papers may be on any historical period with no restriction as to place.

Subjects for discussion might include:

• The various mechanisms (both individual and institutional) of exchange over time
• How local knowledge becomes global and in the process altered, adapted, and sometimes lost
• International (medical) congresses
• Bio-terrorism and the current geopolitics of health and disease
• Cold War exchanges of knowledge and techniques between West and East
• Medical training
• Travelling students and professionals
• Medial missionaries
• Imperial ventures and adventures
• The British Commonwealth
• The work of Medical Research Councils abroad; WHO; Rockerfeller etc
• Medical information and technology transfer
• Internationalising and standardising the business practices and goods of medicine (instrumentation, pharmaceuticals etc))
• Migrating women (spouses, émigrés, students)
• Emigration/Immigration of medical professionals
• The passage of medical information in wartime between belligerent nations
• German medicine and medical culture in Edwardian Manchester (and similar egs in other places at other times)