Hi:
One of my colleagues here at McGill asked me to e-distribute the
following Call for Papers.
Thanks.
Alberto Cambrosio
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CALL FOR PAPERS
THIRD INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR THE HISTORY OF HOSPITALS CONFERENCE
"FORM + FUNCTION: THE HOSPITAL"
MCGILL UNIVERSITY, MONTREAL
JUNE 19-21, 2003
The International Network for the History of Hospitals will hold its
first international conference in North America at McGill University
in Montreal in June 2003. The conference seeks to examine the
relationships between the form and function of health care
institutions as they have developed over time, place, and institution
from the medieval to the modern period in different local and
national contexts. How have medical ideas and functions shaped
design? How did different patient populations experience the
hospital and contribute to its formal development? How is the
hospital imagined and portrayed? How has the hospital formed a
medical and social space?
To explore these issues, "Form + Function" will be divided into four
inter-related sessions. These will address:
. the visual and built form of the hospital;
. the hospital's social form;
. utopian hospitals: theory, image, and reality;
. the hospital's medical form and functions.
The focus, however, will not be limited to hospitals. The conference
seeks to address how these issues relate to other healthcare
institutions - for example the asylum, the dispensary, the nursing or
convalescent home - many of which were connected to the hospital or
formed part of institutional healthcare systems. At the conference,
there will also be a forum to display and discuss posters detailing
research projects.
Papers are invited for the conference and all four sessions. All
papers and posters should represent original research. Contributions
are invited from scholars working in the widest possible range of
disciplines, including historians of art, architecture, and medicine
as well as from architects. Submissions from younger scholars will
be particularly welcomed. Enquiries and abstracts should be directed
to:
Dr Keir Waddington
School of History and Archaeology
Cardiff University
PO BOX 909
Cardiff CF10 3XU
UK
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Fax: +44 (0) 29 20874929 Dr Annmarie Adams
School of Architecture
McGill University
815 Sherbrooke St. West
Montreal, Quebec
Canada H3A 2K6
E-Mail: [log in to unmask]
Fax: 514 398 7372
When submitting abstracts (c. 500 words) please provide your name,
preferred mailing address, work and home telephone numbers, present
institutional affiliation, and academic degrees. Abstracts must be
received by 15 November 2002 and will be discussed by the Network's
Advisory Board in December 2002.
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Alberto Cambrosio
Associate Professor
Dept. of Social Studies of Medicine
McGill University
3647 Peel
Montreal, Quebec
Canada H3A 1X1
Tel: 1-514 398-4981
Fax: 1-514 398-1498
E-Mail: [log in to unmask]
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