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CASES IN SCIENCE, MEDICINE AND THE LAW
20-21 April 2007
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
University of Cambridge
Organized by John Forrester and Lauren Kassell
Supported by CRASSH and the Wellcome Trust
Booking forms, a printer-friendly programme and further information will
soon be available on: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2006-7/cases.html
PROGRAMME
Day One
9:30-9:55 Coffee and registration
9:55-10:00 Welcome
SESSION 1. EPISTEMIC GENRES
10:00-11:20 Lorraine Daston (MPIWG, Berlin)'Observation as Epistemic Genre'
Commentator: John Forrester (University of Cambridge)
11:20-11:40 Coffee
11:40-1:00 Mary Morgan (LSE) 'Why Facts Fly Out of the Window When
Epistemic Genres Clash' Commentator: Jim Secord (University of Cambridge)
1:00-2:00 Lunch
SESSION 2. EARLY MODERN CASES
2:00-3:20 Gianna Pomata (University of Bologna) 'Sharing Cases: The
Observationes in Early Modern Medicine' Commentator: Silvia de Renzi (Open
University)/Cathy McClive (Durham University)
3:20-4:00 Tea
4:00-5:20 Anthony Grafton (Princeton University) 'History, Examples, Cases'
Commentator: Lauren Kassell (University of Cambridge)
7:30 Conference Dinner (places limited, advance booking necessary)
Day Two
9:45-10:00 Coffee
SESSION 3. CASE NOTES, CASE HISTORIES AND THE CASE METHOD
10:00-11:20 John Harley Warner (Yale University) 'The Making of the Modern
Medical Case and Its Discontents' Commentator: Steve Sturdy (Edinburgh
University)
11:20-11:40 Coffee
11:40-1:00 Rachel Ankeny (University of Adelaide) 'The Future of Case-Based
Reasoning in the EBM Era: Warrant, Practice, and Gnosis in Contemporary
Medicine' Commentator: Tim Lewens (University of Cambridge)
1:00-2:00 Lunch
SESSION. 4 THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MODERN CASE
2:00-3:20 Theodore Porter (UCLA) 'Cases and Statistics in Social Science'
Commentator: Martin Kusch (University of Cambridge)
3:20-4:00 Tea
4:00-5:20 Richard Ashcroft (Imperial College, London) 'Cases in Bioethics'
Commentator: Peter Lipton (University of Cambridge)
5:20-5:30 Concluding remarks
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Dr Lauren Kassell
University Lecturer in History & Philosophy of Science
Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge
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