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| Monday May 21, 2012 | University of Exeter > Humanities > CMH > Past seminars |
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Past SeminarsProduction and Consumption of Vernacular Medical Books in Early Modern EnglandDr. Elaine Leong, University of Cambridge TBCProfessor Ludmilla Jordanova (King's College London) Health and climate changeProfessor Janet Richardson, (Plymouth) and Dr Vladimir Jankovic (Manchester) Joint seminar with the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry Child development/preschool childcareDr. Angela Davis, University of Warwick Bone Marrow Transplantation 1945-61Dr Alison Kraft, Egenis Magnus Hirschfeld, race and sexologyDr. Heike Bauer, Birkbeck University of London TBCDr. Sarah Hayes, University of Exeter Medical EducationDr. Jonathan Reinarz, Birmingham University and Prof. Alan Bleakley, PMS The patient consumer? Patient organisations and consumerisms in Britain since the 1960's.Dr. Alex Mold, LSHTM Mental illness and returning patient care in the early National Health ServiceProfessor Jo Melling & Dr. Nicole Baur, University of Exeter 'Third class treatment for third class patients'? Reform and chronic mental illness in twentieth century British psychiatryDr Vicky Long, Glasgow Caledonian University TBAMary Fissell (John Hopkins University) The future of the social history of medicineRoger Cooter (University College London) & Jonathan Toms (University of Warwick) The History of SIDSAngus Ferguson (University of Glasgow) Stress, psychosomatic disease and the 1960s civil servantDebbie Palmer (University of Exeter) 'Against Natural and Moral Law'?: Artificial Insemination 'Rights'(and 'Wrongs') in 1950s ScotlandDr Gayle Davis (University of Edinburgh) The History of AIDSRich McKay (University of Oxford) & Professor Anthony Pinching (Peninsula Medical School) Antarctic explorationHenry Guly (Consultant Accident & Emergency, Plymouth Hospital NHS Trust) 'Transnational and Transcultural Histories of Chinese Medicine: Medieval Persia and Socialist Cuba'Vivienne Lo (University College London) 'The Sleep of Reason: Imagination, Irrationality and SleepPathology in Medieval Medicine'William MacLehose (University College London) 'Forging a New Indian Materia Medica: Professional Societies and the Formalisation of European Medical Practice, 1822-1854'Erica Wald (London School of Economics) 'Negotiating Science: The Foundation and the Gamma Globulin Pilot Study, 1951'Stephen Mawdsley (Cambridge University) 'Galen and Modern Medicine'Chris Gill and John Wilkins (University of Exeter) 'Reading and writing the book of life: linguistic metaphors in the history of genomics and biotechnologies.'Prof Bernardino Fantini, Director, Institut d'Histoire de la Médecine et de la Santé Female Same-Sex Desires: Conceptualizing a Disease in Competing Medical Fields in Nineteenth-Century EuropeChiara Beccalossi Darwin's Progress and the Problem of SlaveryJames Moore, Open University 'Urban Nature: Rats, Stress and the Welfare State'Ed Ramsden, University of Exeter The Uses and Abuses of the History of HyperactivityMatthew Smith, University of Exeter It Must Have Been Something He Ate: Food Additives, Hyperactivity and the Feingold DietDr Matthew Smith (Gown meets Town talk) The pursuit of happiness: the social and scientific origins of Hans Selye's natural philosophy of life.Mark Jackson, University of Exeter 'Physicians in the Crusades'Piers Mitchell, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge To Grow the Children in the Open Air: A history of the open air school movement in the early 20th centuryMike Emanuel, Research Affiliate, Oxford Brookes 'Globalizing Flu: Pandemic surveillance and the making of international health'Michael Bresalier, University of Bristol To be announcedHannah Newton, University of Exeter Gendering Fear: A History of the Traumatic Languages of Sexual ViolenceProfessor Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck College TBCProf Bernardino Fantini, Director, Institut d'Histoire de la Médecine et de la Santé The Suicidal Animal: Science and the Nature of Self-destructionDr Ed Ramsden, Centre for Medical History 'Race and the Control of Maternal Health: the Zanzibar Maternity Association, 1919-1947'Anna Crozier, University of Exeter 'Where is the history of medical ethics?'William Gallois, Roehampton University TBCHera Cook, University of Birmingham "The changing nature of work: the stressor for the 21st Century"Professor Cary Cooper CBE, Lancaster University Management School Joint seminar with the Department of English 'Therapeutic Revolutions: Medicine, Psychiatry and Postwar American Culture'Professor Martin Halliwell Joint Seminar with the Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Sexuality and Gender in Europe 'Puberty and the making of gender: explaining bodily changes in sex education, 1900 - 1980'Lutz Sauerteig, University of Durham 'From Commonplace Books to Index cards: Linnaeus at Work, 1727-1777'Staffan Muller-Wille, Egenis, University of Exeter Birthing Tales by physicians, surgeons and midwives in Early Modern FranceValerie Worth-Stylianou Joint seminar with the Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Sexuality and Gender in Europe 'Culture, Psychiatry and Koro: penis shrinking, masculinity, and culture-bound syndrome'Ivan Crozier, University of Edinburgh 'Desperate Housewives' and the Domestic Environment in Post-War Britain - Individual Perspectives.Ali Haggett (Exeter) Medical Magic and the Church in Medieval EnglandCatherine Rider, History, University of Exeter 'Sadness and Dis-ease in early modern England'Erin Sullivan, UCL Who put the stress on post-traumatic stress, and what makes it work?Dr Allan Young, McGill University Globalizing Flu: Pandemic surveillance and the making of international healthMichael Bresalier, University of Bristol 'My wife hath sent ....her laudanum': the role of lay practitioners in the health care of the Cecil family, 1550-1660Caroline Bowden, Royal Holloway College Joint seminar with the Centre for War, State and Society 'Civil war, Trauma and the Psychology of Mau Mau'David Anderson and Sloan Mahone, University of Oxford 'Galen on the interface of medical and psychological therapy'Professor Chris Gill, University of Exeter 'The Tailor's Daughter, the Clerk's Lady and the Ploughman's Wife: Managing Difficult Delivery and the Development of the Edinburgh Royal Maternity Hospital, 1844-1939'Alison Nuttall (Independent Researcher) The Tailor's Daughter, the Clerk's Lady and the Ploughman's Wife: Managing Difficult Delivery and the Development of the Edinburgh Royal Maternity Hospital, 1844-1939Alison Nuttall, independent researcher 'Secret Bodies: Measuring Masculinities in Early Modern France'Cathy McClive, University of Durham Globalising flu: pandemic surveillance & the making of international health.Dr Michael Bresalier, University of Bristol The transatlantic history of total hip replacement: technologies and political economies of healthProfessor John Pickstone, University of Manchester Anxiety, stress & social adaptation, 1930s - 1950s: physiological testing & psychological disordersProfessor Paul Weindling, Oxford Brookes University The trial of Ronald True: the place of psychiatry in a 1922 insanity trial.Dr Ivan Crozier, University of Edinburgh Re-assessing the health visitor as part of a public health team.Dr Pamela Dale, University of Exeter Sacred spas? Healing springs & religion in post-Reformation England.Professor Alex Walsham, University of Exeter Historical and contemporary perspectives - Migration and Health in Southeast Asia: The State, Less-skilled Migrant Workers and Public Health policiesProfessor Amarjit Kaur, University of New England, Australia "The Drug that Makes Soldiers Good Sailors Will Soon Be Working for You! Antihistamines and the Culture of Performance in Cold War America"Professor Gregg Mitman, University of Wisconsin Bringing the lab to the workplace: labour conflicts and management culture at Almaden mercury mines in the early 20th centuryDr Alfredo Menéndez Navarro, University of Granada Bringing the lab to the workplace: labour conflictsand management culture at Almaden mercury mines in the early 20th century Alfredo Menéndez-Navarro, History of Science Department, As has been pointed out, the introduction of laboratory-based approaches into contemporary medical practice reflects not only the pursuit of technical efficiency but also the promotion by laboratory techniques of organisational innovation at the interface between areas of political and administrative action. The rise of the new laboratory-based approach to the workplace ran parallel to growing social conflict throughout In this presentation I report the case of Almaden, the most important mercury mine in the world, as an illustration of the new role played by laboratory-based industrial medicine in the workplace. Almaden is a Spanish state-owned company that employed over 2,000 miners at the beginning of the 20th century. Occupational health hazards, mainly chronic mercury poisoning, had traditionally been handled in Almaden by labour management strategies, applying measures aimed at avoiding the excessive biological deterioration of the work force rather than improving working conditions. During the 1910s, the mines underwent a far-reaching rationalisation process, with the imposition of a new set of working regulations that increased individual work load. It brought to an abrupt end a long tradition of pre On the Disease of Love: a medical view of infatuation in the medieval Islamic period.Dr Ghada Karmi On the Disease of Love: a medical view of infatuation in the medieval Islamic period This paper will discuss the phenomenon of love-sickness as a disease which the medieval Arabic physicians classified as a part of mental illness. This medical, as opposed to romantic, view of love was included in ordinary medical practice, as we learn from the Arabic medical textbooks that survive to us. It is a tradition that survives until today in parts of the Arab world. Psychedelic Psychiatry: 1950s LSD experimentationDr Erika Dyck, University of Alberta Chivalry, Sexuality and Menstrual Taboo, c. 1840-1880Dr Julie-Marie Strange, University of Manchester Chivalry, Sexuality and Menstrual Taboo, c.1840-1880 As a burgeoning area of specialist expertise, gynaecology in this period operated as a site for the negotiation of professional opportunities and the pursuit of medical knowledge. Yet the subjects addressed by gynaecological practitioners, the diseases of women, also became the sites for the negotiation of cultural identities. This paper examines Gynaecological discourse in the mid to late nineteenth century to explore the ways in which paradigms of menstrual (ill)health were framed by notions of Englishness and chivalry. Analysis of such frames, however, suggests that notions of gentlemanly endeavour were slippery and often charged with sexual undertones and fears of the 'mystery' of woman. Moreover, paradigms of menstrual health were riven with contradictions. Women were 'subjected' to menstruation but must be encouraged to 'perform' it well. Menstruation was at once both a primal and disgusting danger to women from which they must be protected but, also, an essential component of female health and beauty. The paper will unpick these paradoxes in an attempt to read menstrual discourse as a site of potential Playboys, Wolves, and Devoted Husbands: Men and Abortion in England 1861-1967Emma Jones, Royal Holloway, University of London Playboys, Wolves, and Devoted Husbands: Men and Abortion in England 1861-1967 Existing historiography on abortion is afflicted by gender blindness. In a handful of female-centric studies, abortion has been placed at the centre of a female culture removed from the sphere of men’s lives. The role of men in abortion has been consistently overlooked in spite of the evidence, glaring historians in the face. Within the depositions, witness statements and police reports regarding the illegal inducement of miscarriages lie the neglected stories of the husbands and partners of the women who underwent an abortion. The paper analyses the various responses of these men to impending, often undesired, fatherhood and how their involvement was interpreted by themselves, their partners and the courts. It attempts to synchronise the history of abortion with the histories of sexuality and birth control, which have shown greater awareness of male agency, challenging the notion that women were the driving force behind family limitation in this period. By analysing those cases where men played an integral part in the procuring of abortion the paper will show that, however hidden, the male narrative holds vital importance for the historical record of abortion, masculinity and gender relations in twentieth century England. Silencing the Disabled: Spina bifida and prenatal screening in Great BritainDr Wendy Gagen and Dr Jeffrey Bishop TBCDr Julie-Marie Strange, University of Manchester TBCDr Lesley Hall, Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine TBCProfessor Harry Hendrick, University of Southern Denmark Worrying about the Water: Sprawl, Pollution and the Making of Environmentalism on Post WWII Long IslandProfessor Chris Sellers, State University of New York Lampreys, lungfish & elasmobranchs: The politics of animal selection.Dr Helen Blackman Wastelands Seminar Series: "Zones of indistinction: Some thoughts on the bio-politics of urban space"Dr Matthew Gandy, University College London Wastelands Seminar Series: "Nature & the Subjective: Abandoning taxonomy for encounter"Professor Joanna Geyer-Kordesch, University of Glasgow Risk, efficacy, and attenuation in debates over smallpox vaccination in Montreal 1870-1876Dr Jennifer Keelan, University of Toronto In Montreal, in the early 1870s, physicians complained of a high failure rate for public and private smallpox vaccination. The supply of good stock vaccine had become increasingly problematic for physicians at a time when smallpox was endemic. Renewed interest in the nature and efficacy of vaccine-induced immunity against smallpox was spurred on by problems with the vaccine and by popular resistance to the technology. This paper focuses on the complex and recursive relationship between theories of viral attenuation, vaccine-induced immunity, and the assessment of the probable efficacy of vaccination in the field. Debates over vaccine's efficacy from the early 1870s quickly polarized physicians into camps of pro and anti-vaccinationists. However, proponents on both sides of the debate used concepts of attenuation to describe the varied clinical presentation of smallpox and to account for the inconsistent success of vaccination. Pro-vaccinationists tended to argue that the apparent failure of vaccination was a result of the variability of the vaccine quality, but conceived of smallpox as a relatively fixed species. By 'fixing the contagion', the effectiveness of the vaccine during a particular epidemic could be measured through standard hospital data and the technique of vaccination improved accordingly. Anti-vaccinationists maintained that it was the contagion itself that was mutable and that the protective effects ascribed to vaccination were simply a manifestation of a natural process of attenuation. Anti-vaccinationists were particularly successful in using concepts of attenuation to provide an alternative interpretation of data used to support vaccine's efficacy. In both cases, it was the fundamental belief of disbelief in the principle of vaccination that shaped the reading of nineteenth century data on smallpox and vaccination. Wastelands Seminar Series: "The Burning Issue: Waste, incineration & public health in nineteenth & twentieth century Britain"Dr John Clark, University of St Andrews "Medical ethics in colonial Algeria"William Gallois, SOAS, University of London Wastelands Seminar Series: "Visions of Apocalypse & Pollution in Fin de Siècle London"Professor Peter Brimblecombe, University of East Anglia Medicine & feminism - who's reproducing babies?Cath Quinn, Centre for Medical History Cholera, Caricature & CriticismSuzanne Nunn, School of English Medical History LivesChristopher Gardner-Thorpe, Devon & Exeter Medical Society The Act of Copulation being Ordain'd by nature as the ground of all Generation": fertility and the representation of sexual pleasure in seventeenth-century pornographySarah Toulalan (Exeter)
No title currently available but the paper will draw on themes explored in Estelle's forthcoming book on women and medicineEstelle Cohen Estelle Cohen will be discussing her recent work on women and medicine, 1700-1850. Reinventing the asylum: a case study of a lay residential community for the severely mentally ill - [presenting data from a pilot study exploring the nature and operation of The Community of St Anthony and St Elias, South Devon]Dr. Christabel Owens (Research Fellow, Institute of Health and Social Care Research) "Caught between two cultures": The dual certificated nurses at Starcross and their problematic integration into the traditions of the institution and competing lay and medical hierarchiesDr Pamela Dale (Exeter) Ben Adam Second Begotten Son of Yahweh: His Mental and Spiritual Crisis of May 1927Louise Wannell (York) Smoke gets in your eyes: air pollution and the classification of respiratory diseasesDr Mark Jackson (Exeter)
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