Panels and Abstracts
The ‘Usefulness’ of History for the Practice of Medicine, 1750-today
Panel organisers: Dr Rina Knoeff, University of Groningen, and Dr Claudia Stein, University of Warwick
Claudia Stein, University of Warwick: Exploring medical history’s ‘usefulness’ – Introductory Remarks
Thomas Broman, University of Wisconsin, Madison: 'What’s Pragmatic about a ‘pragmatische Geschichte’? Kurt Polykarp Sprengel’s Versuch einer pragmatischen Geschichte der Arzneykunde’
Professor Dr Volker Roelcke, University of Giessen: Why medical history? Reflections on the ‘usefulness’ of history for the medical profession (and beyond)
Professor Frank Huismann, University of Maastricht: Inconvenient Questions: Medical Humanities for Medical Students
Rina Knoeff, University of Groningen: final discussion
Invisible Technicians, Medical Expertise and Practice
Dr Catherine Cox, School of History and Archives, University College Dublin: ‘J. Connolly, Taken from Nature’?: Patient Portraiture and the Pathological Society of Dublin, c.1830-1870
Tania Anne Woloshyn, Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick: Women with ‘Flare’: Snapshots of Light Therapy’s Invisible Operators, c.1895-1945
Claire Jones, University of Leeds: Over the Counter and On the High Street: Commerce and Condoms in Britain, c. 1920-1960
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The Place of the Patient in Post-war Britain
Dr Alex Mold, the Centre for History in Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine: 'The Place of the Patient in Post-war Britain'
Discussion with contributions from postgraduates at the Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick
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Indigenous Knowledge, Power and the Everyday
Emeritus Professor David Hardiman, University of Warwick: Miracle Cures for a Suffering Nation: Sai Baba of Shirdi
Emeritus Professor David Arnold, University of Warwick: ‘How to Murder a Resident: Poison, Politics and India’s Toxic Transition, 1870-1914’
Professor Projit Bihari Mukharji, University of Pennsylvania: Whence Came the Devi? The Story of Mrs Duncan, the Bengali Goddess of Cholera
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History of Medicine in the Twentieth Century
Dr Vicky Long, Glasgow Caledonian University: Conceptualising Work-Related Mental Distress in the British Coalfields, c.1900-1950
Dr Roberta Bivins, University of Warwick: Assimilation, Integration, Exclusion: Interpreting Medical Responses to Migration in Post-War Britain
Dr Jonathan Toms, University of East Anglia: Self-Government and Mental Health: Re-Appraising Foucauldian Interpretations of the History of Psychiatry in the Twentieth Century
