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History, Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine: Reconstructions, Concepts, Cultural Practices
 
Programme
 
29th February-1st March 2008, Mainz (Germany)
 
Institute for History, Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine
Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
 
Friday 29th February 2008
 
 
13.30-14.00 Registration
14.00-14.30 Welcome
 
14.30-15.30 Session 1 
Medicine in Classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages
            Chair: Klaus-Dietrich Fischer
The Interpretation of Understanding in Ancient Greek Medical Texts (Paul Potter, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Kanada)
Gariopontus of Salerno’s Book of Diseases:  Medical Practice and Scholarship in Eleventh Century Italy (Florence Eliza Glaze, Coastal Carolina University, South Carolina, USA/American Academy, Rome, Italy)
 
16.00-17.00 Session 2 
Philosophy and Practice of Medicine in Muslim Arab Civilizations Since 1240 AD
            Chair: Rainer Brömer
The Philosophical Roots of Ibn al-Nafis's New Theory of the Pulmonary Transit (Nahyan Fancy, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, USA) 
Practice and Thought: Medicine and the Medical Profession in Ottoman Egypt (17th-18th Century) (Ahmed Ragab, Centre d’études et de documentations économiques, juridiques et sociales – CEDEJ, Cairo, Egypt/ Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes - EPHE, Paris, France)
 
17.00-18.00 Session 3            
Reconstructing Epistemologies
            Chair: Norbert W. Paul 
The Birth of the Clinic Revisited. On the Materiality of the Medical Gaze, 1800-1900 (Volker Hess, Charité Berlin, Germany)
Philosophy of Science as Philosophy (Claude Debru, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France)
 
 
Saturday 1st March 2008
9.00-10.00 Session 4 
Inscribing Body and Mind: Perspectives from History and Science Studies
            Chair: Lara Huber
Materialities of Cognition: How Strategies of Visualization Shaped Brain Theory (Cornelius Borck, University of Lübeck, Germany)
How Brains Become (A)Social (Nicole C. Karafyllis, University of Frankfurt/M., Germany)
 
10.00-11.00 Session 5
Rethinking Sex and Gender: Reproduction in Technoscience and Medicine
            Chair: Antje Kampf      
'Reproductive Masculinity': Rethinking Gender Difference and Gender Privilege through the Male Reproductive Body" (Cynthia Daniels, Rutgers State University of New Jersey, USA)
Constructing and Theorizing Male Reproductive Bodies and Technologies. The Case of the Male Pill (Nelly Oudshoorn, University of Twente, Netherlands ) 
 
11:30-12:30 Session 6
Biomedical Transformations of Bodies and Selves
            Chair: Meike Wolf       
Old Bodies – New Technologies (Susanne Lundin, University of Lund, Sweden)
"I am a living example" - How Patients Aspire to Translate Experience back into Biomedical Assemblages (Stefan Beck, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany)
 
12.30-13:30 Session 7 
Culture of Ethics and Ethics of Culture in Medicine
            Chair: Ilhan Ilkilic         
The Scope and Limits of Cultural Pluralism in Bioethics (Dieter Birnbacher, University of Düsseldorf, Germany)
What Does Culture Ethically Mean in Medical Practice? (Franz Josef Illhardt, University of Freiburg, Germany)
 
 
Organization 
Institute for History, Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine 
Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz (Germany)
 
 
Conference venue
Akademie der Wissenschaften und Literatur Mainz
Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 2
D – 55131 Mainz
 
 
Contact
Institut für Geschichte, Theorie und Ethik der Medizin 
Universität Mainz
Am Pulverturm 13
D-55131 Mainz
Germany
 
Tel. +49-(0)6131-39 37356
Fax +49-(0)6131-39 36682
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