“From Urban Penalty to Global Emergency: Current Issues in the History
of Tuberculosis” (23-25 March 2002, Sheffield/UK)
Programme
(see the conference website http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/cs/cri/chr/tb/{ HYPERLINK http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/cs/cri/chr/tb/ }
for details about accommodation and booking. The conference
secretary’s address is: Mrs P. Hibberd, Centre for Humanities Research,
Mundella House, Collegiate Campus, Sheffield Hallam University,
Sheffield S10 2BP, England. Contact email: [log in to unmask] { HYPERLINK mailto:[log in to unmask] }– a temporary
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23 March 2002
Introduction
Saturday 13.00-14.30
- Flurin Condrau (Sheffield): Welcome and Introduction
- Linda Bryder (Auckland): Historiography of Tuberculosis
- Abdul Nasser Kaadan (Allepo University, Syria): Tuberculosis in Early
Arabic Medicine
Cultural History of Tuberculosis
Saturday 15.00-16.30
- Tim Boon (Science Museum, London): Disease narratives: TB
propaganda in Second World War Britain
- Annmarie Adams (McGill): Porches and Pills: The Architecture of
Postwar Tuberculosis
- Diego Armus (Swarthmore Coll. Penn.): TB, Tango and Literature in
Buenos Aires, 1910-1940
Countries
Saturday 17.00-19.30
- Alison Bashford (Sydney): Dangerous Individuals: Comparing the
Isolation of Consumptives and Lepers in 20th Century Australia
- Greta Jones (Ulster): Why was there a tuberculosis epidemic in Ireland?
- Vera Blinn Reber (Shipensberg Coll., Penn.): Life and Death in Buenos
Aires: Physician and Patient Perspectives on Tuberculosis, 1870-1915
24 March 2002
Bovine Tuberculosis
Sunday 9.15-11.00
- Susan D Jones (Colorado): Placing Disease: Transnational Perspectives
on the Bovine Tuberculosis Debate, 1901-1914
- Keir Waddington (Cardiff): A question of eradication? Identifying and
controlling the threat of bovine TB in inter-war Britain
- Peter Atkins (Durham): Lobbying and resistance with regard to policy
on bovine tuberculosis: an inside/outside model of Britain, 1900-1939
TB and Race
Sunday 11.30-12.30
- Samuel Roberts (Columbia): Black and White Public and Private
Spheres: Political Economy and the Racialisation of Tuberculosis in the
United States South, 1880-1920
- Nick B King (UCSF): Race, Ethnicity and Geographies of Difference in
the Tuberculosis Pandemic
Therapeutics and vaccines
Sunday 13.30-15.15
- Christoph Gradmann (Heidelberg): Testing Tuberculin: The History of
Anti-Bacterial Drug Therapy and the Transformation of Tuberculin (1890-
91)
- Lyn Brierley Jones (Warwick): Homoeopathic Treatment of
Tuberculosis 1880-1920
- Matthias Dahl and Christian Bonah (Strasbourg): Rationalising
experimental method to death: Medical research on the BCG-vaccine by
risky and lethal experiments between 1924 and 1944
Global Emergency and First World Resurgence
Sunday 15.45-17.30
- Hans Rieder (IUATLD, Paris): Assessing the global tuberculosis
situation: need for simple epidemiological indicators
- Surinder Bakhshi (CDU, Birmingham): Tuberculosis in a Metropolitan
City: Defining Disease - Determining Practice
- TBC: WHO Policy and Programmes
Children and Pensioners
Sunday 18.00-19.30
- Marie-Catherine Bernard (Durham): A year in the life: a preliminary
study of the demographic population of Stannington Children`s
Sanatorium
- Philip Osten (Berlin): Photographs and Files from the Oskar-Helene-
Heim for the Treatment and Education of Frail Children
- Helen Bettinson (UEA): Manipulating Behaviour: Tuberculosis
Pensioners of the Great War and the State
25 March 2002
TB after Streptomycin
Monday 9.00-10.45
- Anne Hardy (Wellcome Centre, UCL): "A national health problem":
Tuberculosis in England, Scotland and Wales, 1937-1967
- Ulrike Lindner (Munich): Post War TB Policies in West Germany
- John Welshman (Lancaster): Microbes, Migration, and Medicine:
Tuberculosis and Ethnicity, 1950-70
Countries 2
Monday 11.15-12.45
- Ida Blom (Bergen): Voluntary Organizations Fighting Tuberculosis,
c1900-c1940: A Norwegian-Danish Comparison
- Sylvelyn Haehner-Rombach (Stuttgart): Consumptives in Nazi Germany
- Jorge Molero-Mesa (Barcelona): "The right not to suffer consumption":
Health, Welfare charity and the Working Class in Spain during the
Restoration
Patients
Monday 13.45-15.00
- David Barnes (Harvard): The Persistent Appeal of Patient Zero
- Jeremy Greene (Harvard): The Making of the Noncompliant Patient
Flurin Condrau
Mick Worboys
Dr. Flurin Condrau
Wellcome Lecturer in the History of Medicine
Department of History
University of Sheffield
Sheffield S10 2 TN
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