Workshop Announcement: ‘Experimental Transactions: Science and the Human-
Animal Boundary’
The Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease (Durham University,
Queen’s Campus, UK) will host a one-day workshop on 24 June 2008, sponsored
by the Wellcome Trust.
The workshop aims to investigate how scientific practices negotiated the
human-animal boundary in different time periods and across disciplines.
Discussions will mainly focus on issues related to experimentation in the
life sciences, such as the laboratory, animal disease models, and the
transfer of experimental results onto the human body; but will also
establish a link to human-animal relations in other contexts (such as pet
culture, anthropomorphism in society, public attitudes towards animal
research etc.).
Speakers:
• Massimo Petrozzi (Johns Hopkins University): Inside and Outside the
Laboratory: Animals, Humans and Blood Transfusion, 1666-1668.
• Stephanie Eichberg (Durham University): Constituting the human via
the animal in 18th-century experimental neurophysiology: Albrecht von
Haller’s ‘Sensibility’ trials.
• Frank Stahnisch (McGill University):. 19th-century French
physiology and the conception of the human-animal analogy: The case of
François Magendie (1783-1855) and Claude Bernard (1813-1878).
• Edmund Ramsden (Exeter University): Experimental methods in social
and behavioural psychology: travelling facts in human and animal
experiments in overcrowding.
• Rob Kirk (University of Manchester): A Chance Observation:
ethological approaches to laboratory animals and human health c.1945 - 1969.
• Pru Hobson-West (University of Nottingham): Contemporary debates
in the UK about the use of animals in science.
The speakers’ papers will be pre-circulated at the beginning of June.
For further details please contact the organiser Stephanie Eichberg
([log in to unmask]) or visit
http://www.dur.ac.uk/chmd/news/5thworkshop
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