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Viviane


Workshop: Legal Medicine and Expertise in History

Supported by the Wellcome Trust; sponsored by the Centre for Health,
Medicine and Society: Past and Present at Oxford Brookes University

A programme, abstracts and registration form are available at

http://ah.brookes.ac.uk/conference/legal_medicine_and_expertise_in_history/

(Payment by cheque is recommended)

Date: 4 December 2009

Time: 10:00 – 17:15

Venue: Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, Gipsy Lane Campus, Buckley
Building, Room BG10

The workshop is designed to facilitate intellectual exchange and debate
between academics working on the history of forensic medicine, by bringing
together scholars who study the subject in a variety of national contexts
and across a broad period of time. It will engage with two central themes:
the character and role of forensic medicine in Europe since the medieval
period; and the relationship between medicine, the law and wider society
as illuminated by the notion of 'expertise' (a modern and highly
contentious concept which does not map directly on to the pre-modern
context).

The aim is to identify fruitful areas of scholarship for future research,
by considering how work ongoing in different countries and stimulated by
different research agendas and traditions might be brought together into a
collaborative network. The meeting is thus intended to serve as a
foundation for a funding application to create an international and
interdisciplinary research network. It is therefore organized in two
parts: five speakers will be followed by a 2-hour round-table discussion
which will appraise the state of the subject and outline the rationale for
the planned grant application.

Speakers:

Dr José Ramón Bertomeu-Sánchez (University of Valencia): Toxicology in
Nineteenth-Century Spain: Appropriating the Marsh Test for Arsenic

Dr Ian Burney (University of Manchester): Bruised Witness: Bernard
Spilsbury and the Performance of Twentieth-Century Forensic Expertise

Professor Holger Maehle (Durham University): Doctors in Court and
Professional Ethics: Two Scandals from Imperial Germany

Professor Alessandro Pastore (Universit’ degli Studi di Verona):
Toxicological Experiments on Animals in Early Modern Italy

Dr Christelle Rabier (CNRS-ENS, Paris): ‘No intrinsic value’: The Testing
of Surgeons’ Salaries before the Paris and London Civil Courts


Roundtable Discussion: Towards an International, Interdisciplinary Network
for the History of Legal Medicine and Expertise


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Dr Katherine D. Watson
Lecturer in the History of Medicine since 1500
Department of History
Tonge Building
Oxford Brookes University
Gipsy Lane, Oxford, OX3 0BP
Tel: (01865) 483709
Fax: (01865) 483707




Dr Viviane Quirke

Centre for Health, Medicine and Society: Past and Present
T 535
Oxford Brookes University
Gispy Lane
Oxford
OX3 0BP

Secretary of the British Society for the History of Science

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