"Progress in Medicine"
Bristol, 13-15 April 2010
A interdisciplinary conference on the nature of progress in medicine,
combining perspectives from philosophy, history, medical science, and
clinical practice.
Conference homepage:
<http://www.bristol.ac.uk/philosophy/department/events/progress_in_medicine/index.html>
Principal Speakers:
● Derek Bolton (KCL) - “Defining illness in psychiatry and in
general medicine”
● Matthew Broome (Warwick) - "Medicine as applied physiology,
psychiatry as applied neuroscience"
● Raffaella Campaner and Maria Carla Galavotti (Bologna) - "Evidence
and the assessment of causal relations in the health sciences"
● K. Codell Carter (Brigham Young University) - “What progress are
we now to expect in medicine?”
● Nancy Cartwright (LSE and UC San Diego) - "The long road from 'it
works somewhere' to 'it will work for us'”
● Sir Iain Chalmers (UK Cochrane Centre) and Ulrich Tröhler (Bern) -
“Medical historical textbooks and review articles fail to take account
of progress in historical research”
● Andrew Cunningham (Cambridge) - "The origins of the concept of
progress in medicine, ca. 16th and 17th centuries"
● Bill Fulford (Warwick) - "Neuroscience and values: from theory to
practice in mental health"
● Sander Greenland (UC Los Angeles) - "How much progress in medicine
is illusory?"
● Ilana Löwy (Inserm, CNRS, Paris-Sud 11) - Prenatal diagnosis: Does
the improvement of diagnostic techniques constitute progress?"
● Mark Parascandola (U.S. National Institutes of Health) - "Epistemic
risk: Empirical science and the fear of being wrong"
● John Pickstone (Manchester) - tba
● David Wootton (York) - "Progress in science and medicine---Real or
illusory?"
● Michael Worboys (Manchester) - "Chlamydia: A disease without a
history"
● John Worrall (LSE) - "Evidence in medicine: getting back to the
Hill top"
Full list of speakers and papers:
<http://www.bristol.ac.uk/philosophy/department/events/progress_in_medicine/programme.html>
Registration now open:
<http://www.bristol.ac.uk/philosophy/department/events/progress_in_medicine/registration.html>
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Organising committee: Professor Alexander Bird (University of
Bristol), Michael Bresalier (University of Bristol), Dr Alex Broadbent
(University of Cambridge), Dr Havi Carel (University of the West of
England), Dr Jeremy Howick (Oxford/UCL).
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