Health History in Action
26-28 August 2015 Ross Priory
PROGRAMME – Day 1
Ross Priory
9.15 – 9.45 13.30 – 15.00
Registration Workshops – Rotation 1
15.00 – 15.30 9.45 – 10.00 Coffee Welcoming Address – Douglas Brodie, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences 15.30 – 17.00
Workshops – Rotation 2 10.00 – 12.30
Expert Presentations 17.00 – 17.15 Medicine – Lauren Couch (Wellcome Trust) and Iain Coffee McClure (NHS Lothian and University of Edinburgh) Media – Vanessa Heggie (University of Birmingham) and 17.15 – 19.00 Chris Holme (History Company)
Keynote – Alison Haggett – ‘Anybody out there?' The Heritage – Ross McFarlane (Wellcome Library) and pleasures and perils of engaging with audiences Emily Munro (Scottish Screen Archive) outside academia. Policy – Thora Hands (University of Strathclyde) and Luke Gibbon (Foreign and Commonwealth Office) 19.00 – 21.00 Arts and Culture – Will Sutcliffe (Novelist) and Iain Dinner Bamforth (GP and writer)
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
PROGRAMME – Day 2
Ross Priory
10.00 – 11.30 14.15 – 15.45
Panel 1 – ‘Children in Psychiatry’ – Carnegie Room Panel 5 – ‘Family Matters’ – Carnegie Room
Panel 2 – ‘Diet and the Body’’ – McGougan Room Panel 6 – ‘Medicine and Image’ – McGougan Room
11.30 – 11.45 15.45 – 16.00
Tea & Coffee Tea & Coffee
11.45 – 13.15 16.00 – 17.30 Panel 3 – ‘Colonial Care’ – Carnegie Room Panel 7 – ‘Disease and Public Health’ – Carnegie Panel 4 – ‘Institutional Practice’ – McGougan Room Room
Panel 8 – ‘Psychological and Spiritual Care in the 13.15 – 14.15 Context of War’ – McGougan Room
Lunch
PROGRAMME – Day 3
Ross Priory
10.00-11.30 14.15 – TBA
Panel 9 – ‘Developing Modern Medical Institutions’ – Optional Distillery Tour Carnegie Room
Panel 10 – ‘Perspectives, Historiography and Discourse’ – McGougan Room
11.30 – 11.45
Tea & Coffee
11.45 – 13.15
Panel 11 – ‘Public and Professional Perceptions of Mental Illness’ – Carnegie Room
Panel 12 – ‘Intoxicants: Highs and Health’ – McGougan Room
13.15 – 14.15
Lunch
Panels
Ross Priory
Panel 1 – ‘Children in Psychiatry’ – Chair: Janet Greenlees
Axelle Champion, School within the asylum: A case study of the Bicetre Hospital in Paris under Dr Bourneville, 1879-1904 Erin Lux, Juvenile justice and child psychiatry in the UK, 1945-60 Jennifer Adlem, How dogs became our children: John Bowlby and the significance of his ethological turn
Panel 2 – ‘Diet and the Body’ – Chair: Matthew Smith
Lisa Haushofer, “Peptonized” and “peptogenic” foods: Physiology and the eating and digesting body Sarah Hartley, The international, regional, and colonial politics of nutrition in Fiji, 1945-1965 Iain Ferguson, Amphetamines as diet pills in the post-war United States
Panel 3 – ‘Colonial Care’ – Chair: Emma Newlands
Pradipto Roy, Madness and psychiatry at the fringes of empire: A study in psychiatric institutions and practices in Bengal Presidency and Assam Province of colonial India, 1858-1912 Angharad Fletcher, Caring for empire: Colonial nursing in Hong Kong and Cape Town 1880-1914 Andrew Glen, Britain, empire and opium: A historiographical paper on the opium cultivators of South Asia 1857- 1906
Panel 4 – ‘Institutional Practice’– Chair: Jennifer Farquharson
Seaneen Larkin, Admitting the mad: Asylums in Ulster 1845-1914 Rachel Hewitt, A Design for Life: The Colony Experiment and the Institutional Care of People with Epilepsy 1890- 1938 Stephen Bance, A lonely furrow in virgin soil: The evolution of aftercare institutions for polio in Ireland 1949-1968
Panel 5 – ‘Family Matters’ – Chair: Erin Lux
Frederick Cooper, Husbands and wives at work: Post-war marriage, mental health, and family stability Dimitra Vassiliadou, Voicing disorderly emotional states in 19th century family letters Hannah Charnock, Something that’s quite an annoyance but that I’m quite obsessed about at the same time: Contraceptive use in pre-marital sex, 1960-2000
Panel 6 – ‘Medicine and Image’ – Chair: Rachel Hewitt
Antonio C Galang, The United States Leper Segregation Policy, 1906-1935 Emer Lucey, Ethereal beauty: The aestheticization of autism, 1943-1980
Panel 7 – ‘Disease and Public Health’ – Chair: Thora Hands
David Bannister, The yellow fever bogey: Public health priorities in colonial West Africa Kyuri Kim, In the name of national economy: The politics of tuberculosis management policy and discourse in South Korea, 1960s-2000s
Panel 8 – ‘Psychological and Spiritual Care in the Context of War’ – Chair: Chris Cavin
Simon Walker, Saving bodies & souls: The role of the British Army chaplain within the medical services during the First World War Jennifer Farquharson, Trauma and displacement: Into the asylum in Great War Scotland Tamara Wijayasekara, Gulf War Syndrome: Psychological, physical, social dimensions of a ‘disease’
Panel 9 – ‘Developing Modern Medical Institutions’ – Chair: Thora Hands
Yong-An Zhang & Mingfeng Guo, The Development of Western Medicine in China Yuzhen Fu, Relationship between the WHO and China, 1970-1978
Panel 10 – ‘Perspectives, Historiography & Discourse’ – Chair: Simon Walker
Melpomeni Kostidi, The medical discourse on Greek spas Hélène Castelli, The historiographical construction of the physician Hippocrates as the father of medicine Angela Muir, Perspectives on mortality: Death in an eighteenth century parish Oonagh Hayes, Evidence based medicine and scientific discourse about the brain pacemaker
Panel 11 – ‘Public and Professional Perceptions of Mental Illness’ – Chair: Jennifer Farquharson
David Freis, Psychiatric prophylaxis on the international stage: Robert Sommer and the movement for mental hygiene in inter-war Germany Ryan Ross, Rescued from the ‘dumping ground’ of neurasthenia: Wilfred Trotter, concussion, and retrospective diagnosis Evgeniya Kryssova, Public perception of madness at the turn of the century: Representation, psychiatry, and mental illness in British newspapers between the 1780s and 1950s
Panel 12 – ‘Intoxicants: Highs and Health’ – Chair: Andrew Glen
Thora Hands, British women and alcohol: Challenging feminine norms of self-medicating for centuries? Marita Martin-Orozco, Mexican campaigns against marijuana 1940s-1950s Steve Feng, Smoking cessation: Pills and their social role
Health History in Action
Delegate List
Andrew Glen University of Strathclyde [email protected]
Tamara Wijayasekara NHS [email protected]
Angela Muir University of Exeter [email protected]
Angharad Fletcher King’s College London [email protected]
Axelle Champion University of Edinburgh [email protected]
Caroline Torres Glasgow Caledonian University [email protected]
David Freis European University Institute [email protected]
David Bannister University of London [email protected]
Dimitra Vassiliadou University of Crete [email protected]
Emer Lucey University of Wisconsin [email protected]
Erin J Lux University of Strathclyde [email protected]
Evgeniya Kryssova Victoria University of Wellington [email protected]
Hannah Charnock University of Exeter [email protected]
Hélène Castelli University of Paris [email protected]
Jennifer Adlem Queen Mary University of London [email protected]
Kim Kyuri [email protected]
Lisa Haushofer Harvard University [email protected]
Lori Jones University of Ottawa [email protected]
Marita Martin-Orozco University of Strathclyde [email protected]
Melpomeni Kostidi University of Thessaly [email protected]
Oonagh Hayes Universität Tübingen [email protected]‐tuebingen.de
Pradipto Roy NIMHANS [email protected]
Ryan Ross Queen Mary University of London [email protected]
Sarah Hartley University of York [email protected]
Stephen Bance University College Dublin [email protected] Thora Hands University of Strathclyde [email protected]
Antonio Galang University of the Philippines [email protected]
Fred Cooper University of Exeter [email protected]
Janet Greenlees Glasgow Caledonian University [email protected]
Jennifer Farquharson Glasgow Caledonian University [email protected]
Matt Smith University of Strathclyde [email protected]
Rachel Hewitt Glasgow Caledonian University [email protected]
Seaneen Larkin Ulster University Larkin‐[email protected]
Simon Walker University of Strathclyde [email protected]
Yu‐zhen Fu Shanghai University [email protected]