Society for the Social History of Medicine 2010 Annual Conference
"Knowledge, Ethics and Representations of Medicine and Health: Historical Perspectives"
Durham, UK. Thursday 8th to Sunday 11th July 2010
Organised by the Northern Centre for the
History of Medicine and jointly hosted
by Durham and Newcastle Universities.
To view the provisional programme please
click
here (pdf-file).
UPDATED 30/06/10.
Key-note speakers:
Dr Tim Boon (Science Museum, London, UK)
'On the Varieties of Medical Filmmaking:
An Alternative Path to the Cultures of
Bio-Medicine'
Professor Martha Few (University of
Arizona, USA)
'The Fetus as Colonial Subject: Gender,
Reproduction, and Medicine in the
Eighteenth-Century Spanish Atlantic'
Professor Dr Thomas Lemke (Goethe
University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
'Biosociality, health and citizenship'
Professor Heinrich von Staden (Institute
for Advanced Studies, Princeton, USA)
'Experiments on Living Animals: Private
and Public Science in Ancient Greece and
Rome'
Session themes include:
What processes have generated
knowledge about the body, illness
and health that has become
authoritative in different
societies?
How have claims of medical expertise
been justified vis à vis claims from
other domains of social and cultural
authority such as religion and law?
What did it mean for medical
practitioners in different cultural
and social contexts to claim to be
ethical as well as knowledgeable?
How did they present themselves to
the public?
What kind of material, visual and
textual representations of body,
mind, health and disease have gained
‘defining power’ exerting influence
on medical practice and research
until today?
Organising Committee:
Philip van der
Eijk (Newcastle University), Jeremy
Boulton (Newcastle University), Holger
Maehle (Durham University), Cathy
McClive (Durham University), Diana Paton
(Newcastle University), Thomas Rütten
(Newcastle University), and Lutz
Sauerteig (Durham University)
For more
information on the SSHM please see
www.sshm.org.
For travel information, please see
how to get to Durham.
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