Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 13:03:11 GMT0BST
From: Keir Waddington <[log in to unmask]>

The International Network for the History of Hospitals is holding its
second internation conference, "Hospitals and Health: The Balance
Sheet" in Verona, Italy from 19-21 April.  The conference covers
hospital history over the last millenium addressing the hospitals
impact on society, patients, demography and subscribers drawing
together a wide range of speakers from across Europe and America.
There is no registration fee.  For further information, see programme
below or visit

http://www.inhh.homestead.com/verona.html

or contact [log in to unmask]

Dr Keir Waddington
Secretary, International Network for the History of Hospitals

                              Programme
THURSDAY 19 APRIL
12-13.30: Arrival and Registration
Opening of conference proceedings
Session One: Hospital Finance and Patronage
Chair: John Henderson (University of Cambridge) =0F
Commentator (Steven Cherry, UEA, Norwich)
Matthew Sneider (Brown University) "Hospital finance in sixteenth-
century Bologna"
Marina Gharbellotti (University of Trento) "The Commune and the
Hospital. Aspects of Charity and Welfare of the Commune of Verona,
seventeenth to eighteenth centuries"
Gunnar Stollberg and Ingo Tamm (University of Bielefeld), "Internal
Differentiation in German Hospitals during the nineteenth century
with special reference to Munich and Leipzig"
John Welshman (University of Lancaster): Inequalities in Health,
Resource Allocation and the Early National Health Service: the
Sheffield Regional Hospital Board, 1947-74
DINNER =0F
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FRIDAY 20 APRIL
Session Two: Urban and Rural Topography: Symbols and Environments
Chair: Carole Rawcliffe (UEA, Norwich) =0F
Commentator: Romano Delnord (Florence): and Giuseppina De Sandre
Gasparini (University of Trento)
Max Satchell (Suffolk County Council Archaeology Service) "Towards a
landscape history of the rural hospital in medieval England, 1100-
1300"
Christine Stevenson (University of Reading) "Prints 'proper to shew
to Gentlemen': the representational topography of the eighteenth-
century British voluntary hospital"
Sergio Onger (University of Brescia) "Hospitals in town and
countryside: Brescia, eighteenth to twentieth centuries"
Annemarie Adams (McGill University, Montreal) "That was Then, This is
Now. Hospital Architecture in the Age(s) of 'Revolution', 1970-2001"
LUNCH
Session Three: Hospitals and Health - The Patients=92 Experience in the
Hospitals
Chair: Mario Marigo (University of Verona) =0F
Commentator: Bernardino Fantini (University of Geneva)
Louise Gray (Wellcome Institute, London), "The role of hospitals in
the lives of the chronically ill. Self-experience and the capability
amidst illness in the narratives of the rural poor in early modern
Germany"
Eric Gruber Von Arni (Army Medical Services Museum, Aldershot)
"'Tempora mutantur Et Nos Mutamur In Illis=92. The experience of sick
and wounded soldiers and their families during the English Civil War
and the Interregnum, 1642-1660"
Flurin Condrau (University of Munich) "The institutional career of
tuberculosis in Britain and Germany during the early twentieth
century"
Martin Dinges (Institute for the History of Medicine of the Robert
Bosch Foundation, Stuttgart) "Patients and homeopathic hospitals in
nineteenth-century Europe"
DINNER =0F
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SATURDAY 21 April
Session Four: The Hospital and the Community
Chair: Carlo Corsini (University of Florence) =0F
Commentator: Richard Smith (University of Cambridge)
Alysa Levene (University of Cambridge) "Saving the Innocents: Life
and Death in the Foundling Hospitals of London and Florence, 1714-
1799"
Graham Mooney (Wellcome Institute, London) and Andrea Tanner (Great
Ormond Street Hospital, London), "=91Death on the Wards=92: The impact of
hospitals on local mortality levels in nineteenth-century London"
Diego Ramiro (University of Madrid) "Mortality in Hospitals and
Mortality in the City in nineteenth-century Spain"
Marco Geddes da Filicaia (Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Genoa) "The
Italian Hospital System between Past and Future" =0F

Closing Address
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For further information please contact
Dr. Marina Garbellotti =0F
C/o Istituto Storico Italo-Germanico =0F
Via S. Croce 77 =0F
I =96 38100 Trento =0F
Italy
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Keir Waddington
Secretary, International Network for the History of Hospitals

Address: The School of History and Archaeology, Cardiff University
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