Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 17:49:56 +0000
From: Aya Homei <[log in to unmask]>
WORKSHOP: History of Clinical Iatrogenesis - Before and after Ivan Illich
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Friday, 19 May 2006
Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM)
Room 2.57, Simon Building Second Floor
University of Manchester
Oxford Road/Brunswick Street
Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/
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About the conference:
Precisely 30 years ago, the social critic Ivan Illich published his book
Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health. Since the publication of
Medical Nemesis, critics from medical sociology, policy and even inside
medicine engaged with Illich's ideas of 'iatrogenesis'. In contrast,
there has hardly been any debate in the history of medicine.
This workshop will reassess the concept of iatrogenesis proposed by
Illich in the 1970s. Rather than merely discussing the sociological,
philosophical or psychological significance of Illich and his ideas,
however, we have encouraged participants to historicise and contexualise
the concept and terminology of ‘the iatrogenic’ by examining specific
historical episodes in biomedicine in the latter half of the twentieth
century, looking at, for example, chemotherapy, surgery, emerging
infectious diseases, the pharmaceutical industry, and hospital management.
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PROGRAMME
9.00-9.45 Registration and Coffee
9.45-10.00 Welcome (Dr Aya Homei, Centre for the History of Science,
Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester, CHSTM)
10.00-11.00
Professor Susan Lederer (Yale University)
'Bad blood: Race, risk, and wrongs in American blood transfusion in the
1950s'
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-12.00
Professor Michael Worboys and Dr Aya Homei (CHSTM)
'Historicising iatrogenesis: Medical treatments and the rise of fungal
infections, 1950s-1960s'
12.00-12.30
Dr Robert Bud (Science Museum, London)
'Fear of "superbugs": An indicator of distrust'
12.30-13.00
Dr Christine Hallett (University of Manchester, and chair of the UK
Centre for the History of Nursing and Midwifery, UKCHNM)
'Nurses' germs in the 1990s: A study of fatalism in infection control'
13.00-14.30 Lunch
14.30-15.00
Ms Rachel McAdams (Centre for the History of Medicine, University of
Glasgow)
'David and Goliath: Maurice Pappworth and the dissolution of medical
authority'
15.00-15.30
Dr Emm Barnes (CHSTM)
'When is a side-effect not just a side-effect? Iatrogenesis and the
'late effects' of treatment for childhood cancer'
15.30-16.00 Coffee
16.00-16.30
Professor Sir George Alberti (National Director for Emergency Access,
Department of Health; Senior Research Fellow, Imperial College, London;
Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Newcastle; President of
the Royal College of Physicians, 1997-2002)
'Clinical iatrogenesis and medical error: A clinician's perspective'
16.30-16.45 Closing comments (Professor Michael Worboys, CHSTM)
For further details or to download a registration form, please visit the
conference website
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/events/conferences/iatrogenesis/
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Aya Homei, Ph.D.
Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM)
University of Manchester
Tel: +44-(0)161-275-5843
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/
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