Den 23. nordiske medisinhistoriske kongress

Nasjonalt medisinsk museum
Oslo, 25.–27. mai 2011

The XXIIIrd Nordic Medical History Congress

The Norwegian Museum for Science, Technology, Industry and Medicine
Oslo, Norway 25–27 May 2011

Programmet starter med lunsj onsdag 25.5.11, og avsluttes med lunsj fredag 27.5.11.

Deltageravgift: 2000 kr, som dekker seminardeltagelse, felles lunsj og middag onsdag og torsdag, samt lunsj fredag.

Reise og overnatting organiseres og betales av den enkelte deltaker.

Inviterte foredragsholdere:

• John Pickstone
  Wellcome Research Professor ved Senter for vitenskapshistorie, teknologi og medisin, Universitetet i Manchester.
• Ludmilla Jordanova
  Professor i moderne historie ved King’s College i London.
• Nick Hopwood
  Senior Lecturer ved Avdeling for historie og vitenskapsfilosofi ved Universitetet i Cambridge

The conference will start with lunch Wednesday, May 25th, and will finish with lunch Friday, May 27th.

Registration fee is NOK 2000,-. This includes seminar participation, joint lunch and dinner Wednesday and Thursday, as well as lunch on Friday.

Travel and accommodation must be organized and paid for by each participant.

Key Note speakers:

• John Pickstone
  Wellcome Research Professor at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester
• Ludmilla Jordanova
  Professor in Modern History at King’s College, London
• Nick Hopwood
  Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge

Praktisk informasjon

Practical information

Den 23. nordiske medisinhistoriske kongress 25–27. mai 2011

Nasjonalt medisinsk museum / Norsk teknisk museum
Kjelsåsveien 143, 0491 Oslo, Norge

Siste frist for innsendelse av abstract 1. mars 2011.
Innlegg om alle temaer relatert til helse- og sykdomshistorie er velkomne. Abstractene bør ha en tittel, være på maksimum en side og inneholde kontaktinformasjon.
Individuelle innlegg vil bli begrenset til 20 minutter, fulgt av 10 minutter diskusjon.

Påmelding til phd-kurs med Ludmilla Jordanova innen 1. mars 2011.
Kurset avholdes om formiddagen onsdag 25. mai.
Påmeldingen sendes til medisin(a)tekniskmuseum.no innen 1. mars og bør inneholde en sides beskrivelse av phd-prosjektet.

Påmelding til kongressen (for alle deltagere) innen 15. april 2011.
Kongressavgift: 2000 kroner, til kontonr. 6080.05.28332.
Merk betalingen med "Kongress”.
Husk også å oppgi navn, adresse og mail.
For betaling fra andre land: IBAN: NO 4360800528332, BIC/SWIFT: NDEANOKK, Nordea bank Norge ASA, Pb 1166 Sentrum, 0107 Oslo

The XXIIIrd Nordic Medical History Congress, 25–27 May 2011

The Norwegian Museum of Science, Technology and Medicine
Kjelsåsveien 143, 0491 Oslo

Deadline for proposals: March 1^st, 2011.
Submissions relating to all subjects pertaining to the history of medicine and health are welcome.
Abstracts should not exceed one page, and should contain a title and contact information (name, affiliation, address and email).
Please submit all proposals for papers and sessions to medisin(a)tekniskmuseum.no no later than 1. March 2011.

Applications to Jordanova’s phd-course: before March 1^st, 2011.
A separate application is necessary for professor Jordanova’s phd-course on the 25th of May, containing a short description of the PhD candidate’s thesis (maximum one page).
Please submit the application to medisin(a)tekniskmuseum.no no later than 1. March 2011.

Registration to the congress (for all participants): before April 15^th 2011.
Register by paying the congress fee of 2000 Nkr to bank account number 6080 05 28332 (Norsk Teknisk Museum). Mark the payment: “Congress”.
Remember also to register your name, affiliation and address / email.
Payment from outside Norway: IBAN: NO 4360800528332, BIC/SWIFT: NDEANOKK, Nordea bank Norge ASA, Pb 1166 Sentrum, 0107 Oslo.

• Program in pdf here

Onsdag 25. mai 2011

1) Histories of infectious disease
Marie C. Nelson: Non-pulmonary Tuberculosis and the Spread of Medical Knowledge around the Turn of the Century 1900
Jonatan Wistrand: Franz Kafka and the tuberculosis A testimony from the pre-antibiotic era
Vitalija Miežutavičiūtė: The activities of Vilnius Medical society in its fight against infectious diseases, 1805 – 1939.

2) Laboratory, clinic, courtroom
Christoph Gradmann: Marketing antibiotic resistance.
Inventing, testing and marketing of anti-tubercular drugs 1943 – 1955
Axel Hüntelmann: Shifting Animals. A Relational History of Laboratory Animals at the Institute for Experimental Therapy and the Georg Speyer House
Svein Atle Skålevåg: Incubation and indecency; medicine and prostitution in fin-de-siecle Norway

3) Histories of mental illness, patients, institutions, treatments
Gunnel Svedberg: Practice of Mechanical Restraints in Clinical Psychiatry
in Sweden and Island – A Historical Perspective
Jesper Vaczy Kragh: A Last-ditch Effort? Lobotomy in Danish Psychiatry 1939 – 1956
Inger Beate Larsen: Hell on earth? A study of twelve Scandinavian autobiographies written in the period 1918 to 2008 by persons suffering from mental health problems (norsk eller engelsk).

Torsdag 26.5.

1) Laboratory, clinic, courtroom (continues)
Morten Hammerborg: The Laboratory and the Clinic Revisited: The Introduction of Laboratory Medicine into the Bergen General Hospital, Norway.
Jon Kyllingstad: Biologiens framvekst i møtepunktet mellom zoologi og medisin.

2) Politics of reproduction
Eira Bjørvik. Assisted Reproduction in Norwegian Medical History 1950 – 2003
Solveig Jülich: Photographing Life Before Birth: Lennart Nilsson and Medicine-Media Relations in Postwar Sweden

1) Histories of the present
Ida Rosenstand Lou: Fra ”Ro, Renlighed og Regelmæssighed” til ”Barnets naturlige rytme”. Historiske trends i rådgivningen til gravide og nybagte mødre set i relation til forekomsten af fedme i Danmark, 1922 – 2010
Michael Andersen og Lene Otto: A Historical Analysis on Energy and Ageing in Geriatric Literature. How 19th century ideas can be found in contemporary approaches.

2) Early modern medicine (and before…) I
Heikki S. Vuorinen: Eternal debate? Identifying the cause of the Black Death and other plagues of the past.
Ana Maria Rosso: Beer and wine in Antiquity, beneficial remedy or punishment imposed by the gods?

1) Histories of mental illness, patient, institution, treatment (Scandinavian languages)
Pernille Sonne: Mentaludtaleser – fra uorganiseret retsmedicin til psykiatrisk ekspertise
Øyvind Thomassen: Emner fra psykiatriens historie; Vagabondering blant kriminelle sinnssyke 1895-1925
Anne Botslangen: Den psykiatriske pasient – en begrepshistorisk studie

2) Circulating knowledge, travelling physicians I
Tomas Gustafsson: The Scandinavian ambulance in the South African war 1899 – 1902
Kjell Asplund: Biafra – personliga minnen från 1960-talets stora svältkatastrof.

1) Histories of mental illness, patients, institutions, treatment cont. (scandinavian languages)
Åshild Fause: Fra privatpleie til institusjon basert på relasjon – og nettverk. Utviklinga av Åsgård sykehus i regional kontekst og i samhandling med det øvrige helsevesenet i Nord-Norge.
Karin Garde: Kønnet som forsvandt. Videnskab og videnstab innenfor behandlingen af psykiske sygdomme

2) Early modern medicine (II)
Kaj Bo Veiersted: «Thus, no other exercise than the exaggerated is in itself harmful». Body and movement in the age of Struensee, with particular focus on the background for his doctoral thesis (1757) on the health benefits of physical activity.
Katarina Villner: Blodsot och barberarbot, Läkekonst om bord på Mary Rose 1545, Vasa 1628 och Kronan 1676.

1) Political medicine, medical politics
Annelie Drakman: The Construction of the Rural Population in Sweden as Ignorant and Fatalistic by Provincial Doctors during the 19th Century
Ólöf Garðarsdóttir: Public health measures against Neonatal Tetanus on the island of Vestmannaeyjar during the early 19th century
Kristine Lillestøl: "Kvaksalveri, overtro og arkana-uvæsen": Norske legar i kamp mot uautorisert legeverksemd 1904-1924

2) Social history
Anders Johan W. Andersen: Dårekisten i Arendal, Framveksten av en omsorg for sinnslidende i Aust-Agder
Jorunn Nerby Vannes: Erfaringer med spedalskhet i et øysamfunn på 1800-tallet. Kari Nilsdatter Spidsøen (1847 – 1884) «Vart óg spilt».

Dinner Grefsenkollen restaurant / Middag Grefsenkollen restaurant

Fredag 27.5

1) Museum / exhibition / dialogue
Henrik Treimo: The Mind Gap-Exhibition – where science meets art.
Amir Parsa / Lena Nordby: Imagination, Transformation and the Innovative Practitioner
Henna Sinisalu: Exhibiting the history of early female physicians.
Kerstin Hulter Åsberg: Exhibition; Tuberculosis, a historical disease with new values
Juris Salacs: An Historical Collection of Exhibits Related to Space Medicine and Biology in the Soviet Union.

2) Circulating knowledge, travelling physicians II
Hsiu-Jane Chen: Transferring Medical Culture From Germany to Meiji Japan. Ego-documents for the study of practices of international knowledge transfer
Aistis Žalnora: Anatomy-Anthropology studies at the Stephen Bathory University in Vilnius, 1919 – 1939
Sultana Banulescu: Neurology and Psychiatry in Austro-Hungarian and Interwar Trieste, 1876 – 1936
Nils Hansson: Foreign physicians in the Third Reich International visitors at Nazi elite school in Alt Rehse 1935 – 1943
Øyvind Larsen: The winds from Maastricht – challenges to University teaching of medicine since the 1980’s

13.00 – 14.00

Lunch and closing remarks

John Pickstone har grunnlagt Senter for vitenskapshistorie, teknologi og medisin ved Universitetet i Manchester, der han nå er Wellcome Research Professor. Han har arbeidet med moderne medisinsk historie, spesielt innenfor temaene kreft, mental helse og engelske helsetjenester.

Boken Ways of Knowing: A New History of Science, Technology and Medicine (2000) har allerede blitt en klassiker innenfor vitenskapshistorien. Den er en original historisk studie der han legger vekt på praksisene innenfor ulike vitenskapsformer, et historiografisk prosjekt han nå utvider mot massemedier.

Han har også skrevet Madness, Medicine and Social History Essays in Honour of Roy Porter ( Palgrave 2007), Surgeons, Manufacturers and Patient. A Transatlantic History of the Total Hip Replacement (med J. Anderson and F. Neary, Palgrave 2007) og The modern biological and earth sciences (vol. 6 i The Cambridge History of Science, med Peter Bowler, 2009)

John Pickstone founded the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester, where he is now Wellcome Research Professor. He has published widely on modern medical history, including the history of cancer, mental health and recent English Health Services.

His book Ways of Knowing: A New History of Science, Technology and Medicine (Manchester and Chicago, 2000, and article in Isis, 2007) is an original attempt to cover the history of science, technology and medicine, emphasising different forms of practices – a historiographical project he is extending towards communicative arts.

Among his other recent publications are Madness, Medicine and Social History Essays in Honour of Roy PorterSurgeons, Manufacturers and Patient. A Transatlantic History of the Total Hip Replacement (with J. Anderson and F. Neary, Palgrave, 2007) and The Modern Biological and Earth Sciences (vol 6 of The Cambridge History of Science, ed with Peter Bowler, 2009). (Palgrave, 2007),

Ludmilla Jordanova er professor i moderne historie ved King’s College i London. Hun har publisert en rekke kulturhistoriske studier av medisin og vitenskap, av kjønn og familie og også av visuell og materiell kultur.

Innenfor medisinsk historie er hun ikke minst kjent for Sexual Visions: Images of Gender in Science and Medicine between the Eighteenth and Twentieth Centuries (University of Wisconsin Press, 1989), Nature Displayed: Gender, Science and Medicine 1760-1820 (Longman, 1999) og Defining Features: Scientific and Medical Portraits 1660-2000 (Reaktion Books, 2000). Hun har også skrevet den mye brukte History in Practice (Arnold, 2000).

Hun arbeider nå med en studie som har arbeidstittelen The Look of the Past og som undersøker den visuelle og materielle kulturens rolle innenfor historien (Cambridge University Press).

Ludmilla Jordanova is professor in Modern History at King’s College, London. She has written widely about the cultural history of science and medicine, on gender and the family and on visual and material culture.

She will be known to medical historians for important contributions such as Sexual Visions: Images of Gender in Science and Medicine between the Eighteenth and Twentieth Centuries, (University of Wisconsin Press, 1989), Nature Displayed: Gender, Science and Medicine 1760-1820 (Longman, 1999), and Defining Features: Scientific and Medical Portraits 1660-2000, (Reaktion Books, 2000).

She has also written the much used History in Practice (Arnold, 2000, 2nd edition, 2006), and is currently completing a book which explores the role of visual and material culture in historical practice, entitled The Look of the Past, to be published by Cambridge University Press.

Nick Hopwood er Senior Lecturer ved Avdeling for historie og vitenskapsfilosofi ved Universitetet i Cambridge, hvor han leder et Wellcome Trust-finansiert forskningsprogram som undersøker reproduksjonens historie fra antikken til i dag.

Han har skrevet Embryos in Wax (Whipple Museum, 2002), er medredaktør av Models: The Third Dimension of Science (Stanford, 2004, med Soraya de Chadarevian) og Seriality and Scientific Objects in the Nineteenth Century (et dobbeltnummer av History of Science, 2010, sammen med Simon Schaffer og Jim Secord) og medforfatter av nettutstillingen Making Visible Embryos (2008, med Tatjana Buklijas).

Han holder nå på å avslutte en boken Pictures of Evolution and Charges of Forgery, om noen av vitenskapshistoriens mest kontroversielle bilder, og hvordan de ble standard.

Nick Hopwood is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, where he runs a Wellcome Trust-funded programme that is reassessing the history of reproduction from antiquity to the present day.

He is the author of Embryos in Wax (Whipple Museum, 2002), co-editor (with Soraya de Chadarevian) of Models: The Third Dimension of Science (Stanford, 2004), co-author with Tatjana Buklijas of the online exhibition Making Visible Embryos (2008) and co-editor with Simon Schaffer and Jim Secord, of Seriality and Scientific Objects in the Nineteenth Century (a special double issue of History of Science, 2010).

He is currently finishing a book, Pictures of Evolution and Charges of Forgery, about the most controversial images in the history of science and why they became some of the most standard.