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CALL FOR PAPERS

Apothecaries, Art and Architecture: Interpreting Georgian Medicine

A Joint Symposium

IN HONOUR OF ROY PORTER

organised by The Faculty of the History and Philosophy of Medicine and
Pharmacy  
of The Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London and Dr Johnson's
House 

Apothecaries' Hall, Black Friars Lane, London EC4V 6 EJ

24 & 25 November 2005

The aim of this Symposium is to further research and study into the
history of medicine and pharmacy by exploring different aspects of
health and sickness in Georgian England. It is a cross-domain
collaboration between archives, museums, libraries, historical societies
and specialist interest groups. 

The core objectives are:
- to promote collections ranging from archives to artefacts which are
unknown, under-exploited, under threat, or not normally accessible to
the research community, amateur historians and the general public alike 
- to encourage the use of these collections through lectures,
discussions and displays by inviting specialists from many different
fields to participate.  Confirmed speakers include Prof. Penelope
Corfield (Royal Holloway College, University of London), Prof. Ludmilla
Jordanova (Director, CRASSH, University of Cambridge), Prof. Brian
Hurwitz (D'Oyly Carte Chair of Medicine and the Arts, King's College
London), Prof. Steven Parissien (Plymouth University), Prof. Tim
Hitchcock (Hertfordshire University), Dr Ruth Richardson (independent
scholar and historian) and Simon Chaplin (Senior Curator, Hunterian
Museum) 

We intend to publish selected papers and presentations

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There will be four sessions over the two days: People in Practice; Art
and Architecture; Medical Trade and Treatments, and Aspects of the
History of Medicine and Pharmacy

Suggested themes for papers and demonstrations include:

- Case studies of apothecaries, surgeon-apothecaries, chemists and
druggists
- Education and training, including apprenticeship
- Managing a business: including shop and property plans and papers,
equipment, prescription and patient records and financial documentation
- Public health and epidemiology
- Mental health provision
- Dispensaries and the poor
- Death and disease
- The law and medicine and pharmacy
- Medical practitioners portrayed in art, literature and the popular
press
- Art in hospitals
- Art students and anatomy
- Medical buildings, hospitals and Georgian architecture, including
asylums and philanthropic models 
- Medical and surgical practitioners' homes and houses
- Medical care of women and children, including lying-in hospitals and
charitable foundations
- Apothecaries and military and naval medical care
- Pharmacies and pharmaceutical manufacture, including development of
the industry and the growth of international trade
- Equipment: from drug jars and medicine chests to laboratory apparatus
and evidence from probate inventories
- Physic gardens and the trade in botanical-medicinal specimens and
plants
- Herbals, medical botany and materia medica
- Medical treatment, including costs: from drugs, equipment, spas and
sea-bathing to proprietory, patent and quack medicines 
- Medical and pharmaceutical collection management (including
preservation and conservation measures), storage and handling
- Listing, cataloguing and dissemination of information about specialist
medical collections from archives and manuscripts, rare books and museum
objects to herbaria, furniture, artworks and buildings

We welcome submissions from anyone involved in interpreting Georgian
medicine, especially those professionally responsible for archival,
museum and rare book collections, as well as current researchers of this
period of medical and pharmaceutical history.

Abstracts in English (maximum 300 words) are invited for submission
under the following criteria:

Papers: 30 mins and 40 mins
Demonstrations/Handling Sessions: 15 mins
Case Studies: 20 mins

TO BE RECEIVED BY TUESDAY 3 MAY 2005 (acceptances to be advised by
Friday, 10 June 2005) as electronic or hard copy AND PLEASE INCLUDE FULL
CONTACT DETAILS:

Symposium Office
c/o The Archives
Society of Apothecaries
Apothecaries' Hall
Black Friars Lane
London EC4V 6EJ

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Contacts:

Dee Cook, Society of Apothecaries
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t. 020 7248 6648

Natasha McEnroe, Dr Johnson's House
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t. 020 7353 3745