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The Nineteenth Barnard Medieval & Renaissance Conference
Medicine Across Cultures: 600-1600
December 4, 2004
Fixed notions of " The West" and "The East" as cultural models often
disguise and distort more than they reveal. This is especially true when
applied to the pre-modern world. Our Nineteenth Barnard Medieval and
Renaissance Conference explores the wealth of cross-cultural sharing and
exchange that characterized medical theory and practice in this period. At
the same time, it illuminates the great complexity and sophistication of
the pre-modern medical tradition.
For further information and registration please contact
Laurie Postlewate, [log in to unmask]
http://www.barnard.edu/medren/conference.htm
9:30-10:00 Conference Registration and Morning Coffee
10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon
Plenary Speakers:
Michael R. McVaugh, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“The Latin Maimonides”
Monica Green, Arizona State University
“Médecine Sans Frontières: Salerno at the Crossroads of Mediterranean Culture”
12:30-2:00 p.m. Lunch
2:00-3:30 p.m. First Afternoon Session
I. Medical Theorists and Practioners
David Reisman, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J.
“Medical Autobiography and Autodidacticism in Medieval Islam”
Gerald Grudzen, University of Phoenix
“Historical Context and Sources for the Medical Philosophies of Alfanus of
Salerno's Premnon Physicon and Constantine the African's Pantegni”
Stephen Greenberg, National Library of Medicine
“Prestige and Credential in Medieval and Renaissance Medicine: Sydenham,
Paré and Maimonides”
II. The Female Body
Dawn Marie Hayes, Montclair State University
“Maternity Across Cultures: Jewish and Christian Approaches to Pregnancy
and Childbirth in Medieval Western Europe”
Jersey J.C. Choo, Princeton University
“To Coordinate with the Original Destiny: The Prerequisites for Treating
Childbirth-Related Illnesses in Medieval China”
Sabine Wilms, Pima Community College and the Asian Institute of Medical Studies
“The Significance of the Female Body in Medieval Chinese Medicine”
III. Medicine and Literature
Louise M. Bishop, Clarks Honor College, University of Oregon
“Early Modern Medicine: Self-Help and State Authority in Thomas Elyot’s
‘Castle of Helth’ (1541)”
Maud Kozodoy, Jewish Theological Seminary
The Urjuza in Hebrew: Medieval Hebrew Medical Poetry
Tanya Pollard, Montclair State University
“Shakespeare’s Pharmacy”
IV. Medicine and the Mind
Noga Arikha, Bard College
“Humoral Passions and Seasoned Cares”
Mary Garvey, University of Technology, Sydney
“Shen-zhi Theory: Chinese Medicine’s Perspective on the Mind and Mental
Illness”
Gil Raz, Dartmouth College
“The Way of the Yellow and the Red: Debates on Sexual Initiation Rites
among Daoists in Early Medieval China”
3:30-4:00 p.m. Coffee Break
4:00-5:30 p.m. Second Afternoon Session
V. Pharmacology in Translation
Siam Bhayro, Yale University
“Greek Medicine in the Near East: The Syriac Translation Movement and
Galen’s Reception in the East”
Alain Touwaide, Smithsonian Institution
“Medicine Across the Mediterranean World: Translating or Transliterating?”
Walton O. Schalick, III, Washington University in St. Louis
“Taking the nox out of nocumentum: Poisons, Drugs and Side Effects in
Thirteenth and Fourteenth-Century France”
VI. The Theory and Practice of Healing
E. Ruth Harvey, Center for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto
“Diagnosis in Fourteenth-Century England: Case Histories from Friar Henry
Daniel’s
Liber Uricrisiarum”
Noel Fallows, University of Georgia
“Military Medicine in Medieval Iberia”
Sarah Covington, Queens College, City University of New York
“Medicalizing the Wounded Body in the Renaissance”
VII. Representation and Transformation
Leah DeVun, Texas A & M University
“ ‘Fit for Immortality’: Alchemy, Equality and the Resurrection Body in the
Late Middle Ages”
Bella Mirabella, New York University
"Quackling Delilahs: Women, Performance, and Medicine in Renaissance
England and Italy"
Lian Chang, School of Architecture, McGill University
“The Genius of Lust: The Fertile Interior of Charles Estienne’s De
dissectione partium corporis (1545)”
VIII. Understanding Contagion
TJ Hinrichs, Boston College
“The Handling of Contagion in Tang (618-907) and Song (960-1279) China”
Manu Radhakrishnan, Princeton University
“Plague and Contagion in the Consilia of Gentile da Foligno”
Susan Kramer, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
“Disease, Contagion and Fermentation as Medieval Metaphors for Sin”
5:30-7:00 p.m. Reception
All events will take place in Barnard Hall. The Barnard gate is on the west
side of Broadway at 117t Street.
This event is undertaken by the generous support of the Office of the
Provost, Barnard College.
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