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SOCIETY FOR THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE
ANNUAL CONFERENCE

'MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS: IDENTITIES, INTERESTS AND IDEOLOGY

JULY 16 - JULY 18 1999

UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

For further information contact James Bradley: [log in to unmask]

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Friday 16 July

Noon - 2 pm: Registration

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2 - 3.15 pm: Welcome and Plenary 1

John Harley Warner (Yale)- 'Bedside stories: performance, identity, and the
image of objectivity'

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3.15-3.45 pm  Coffee

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3.45-5.15pm: Parallel 1 (1 Session)

'The history of the medical profession in Brazil: strategies, identity and
technology'

M. Andre de Faria Pereira Neto (Oswaldo Cruz Foundation)-
'A controversy concerning Brazilian medical identity. The National Medical
Congress (1922)'

Madel T. Luz (University of Rio de Janeiro State)-
'Social history of homoeopathy in Brazil (1840-1990): the art of healing
and the science of diseases'

Lilia B. Schraiber (University of Sao Paulo)-
'Technological medicine and professional practice: new challenges and
dilemmas in Brazil (1930-1980)'

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3.45-5.45pm: Parallel 2 (2 Sessions)

(1) 'Women 1'

Ellen More (Texas)-
'"Metaphors of 'balance" in the construction of women physicians'
professional identity'

Kristin Kay Barker (Reed College)-
'Split identities / split alliances: women physicians and professionalization'

Paulette Meyer (Humboldt State)-
'Professional medicine and life reform: the practice and publications of
Anna Fischer-Duckelmann (1856-1917), MD (Zurich 1896)'

Elaine Denny (University of Central England)-
'The emergence of district nursing in nineteenth-century England'

(2) (Post)Colonialism

Shang-Jen Li (The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine)-
'The professional identity of british medical men in nineteenth-century
China: the controversy between Patrick Manson and the medical missionaries'

John Lwanda (University of Edinburgh)-
'Politics, culture and medicine: an unholy trinity? Hybridity and multiple
identities in Malawi medicine'

Kalala Ngalamulume (Central Washington)-
'The contribution of medical professionals to the establishment of French
colonial rule in Senegal, 1850-1920'

Aya Takahashi (Royal Holloway)-
'"The angel in the white uniform" and war: nationalism and the identity of
the Japanese nurse, c.1880-1940'

5.45 - 6.45 pm: SSHM AGM
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Saturday (16 July)

9.00 - 10.30 am: Parallel 3 (3 Sessions)

(1) Defining Medical Crisis

Jessie Saul (Cornell)-
'Blood ties: The construction of the AIDS crisis in the blood systems of
the United States and France'

Javier Lezaun (Cornell)-
'Territorial epidemics: meningitis and sovereignty in Spain'

Nick King (Harvard)-
'Chronicle of a disaster foretold: epidemic disease as medical commodity'

(2) Women II

Mary Ann Elston (Royal Holloway)-
'Consolidating a toehold in the citadel? Professional socialisation and
identity for English medical women, 1876-1914'

Teresa Ortiz, Ana Tavora, Ana Delgado and Dolores Sanchez (Granada)-
'The Spanish Medical Women's Association (1965-78) and the construction of
a female professional identity'

Liz Walker (Witwatersrand)-
'"Creating Spaces": the early years of the South African Society of Medical
Women'

(3) Patients

Michael Stolberg (Munich)-
'The Patient's View: The Medical Profession in 18th-Century France'

Ted Blaisdell (Lehigh)-
'The Roots of Autonomy: Early Modern Thoughts on Autonomy in Richard
Brome's The Antipodes'

Constance Malpas (Princeton)-
'Trousse and toilette: packaging Parisian medical authority, c.1830'
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10.30 - 11.00 am: Coffee / Tea
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11.00 - 12.30 pm: Parallel 4 (3 Sessions)

(1) The Medical Hero and Historiography

Constantin Goschler (Harvard)-
'Rudolf Virchow and the scientific habit'

Christoph Gradmann (Heidleberg)-
'Robert Koch's scientific expeditions as private and public practice'

Andrew Mendelsohn (Max Plank Institute for the History of Science)-
'The technician of health'

(2) Lit. Crit.

Lisa Lynch (Rutgers)-
'Wee Willie Winkie in white: American medical jingoism in fiction and film,
1924-1938'

Don Madison (North Carolina)-
'Enhancing the popular image of the American medical profession: Sidney
Kingsley's "Men in White" (1933)'

Tabitha Sparks (Washington)-
'Love (and medicine) in the time of cholera: Harriet Martineau's
"Deerbrook" and the rise of the General Practitioner'

(3) Boundary Making

Jon Adams (Edinburgh)-
'Examining GPs' accounts of their complementary practice: identity,
territory and boundary-construction.'

Hilary Marland (Warwick)-                                      
'Boundaries of expertiese: doctors, patients and treating insanity of
childbirth in the 19th century'

Helen Valier (WUHM, Manchester)-
'The trials of Pernicious Anaemia: identity and patronage in interwar
British medicine'
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12.30 - 1.30 pm: Lunch
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1.30 - 2.30 pm: Plenary Session 2

Chris Lawrence (WIHM, London)-
'Edward Jenner's Jockey Boots and the Great Tradition in English Medicine,
1918-39'
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2.35 - 3.35 pm: Parallel 5 (4 Sessions)

(1) Public Health / Public Service

Biserka Belicza (Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts)-
'The development and status of medical specialists in Croatia in the 19th
Century'

Pam Gilbert (Florida)-
'Conflict and professional self-definition: public medicine and religion in
the mid-nineteenth century'

(2) Ultrasound

Malcolm Nicolson, Ian Spencer and John Fleming (WUHM, Glasgow & Queen's
Belf.)-
'Holism and obstetric Ultrasound: Ian Donald as anti-abortion campaigner'

Debbie Nicholson (WUHM, Glasgow)-
'Transgressing professional boundaries? General Practitioners as
'Ultrasonologists' in the Western Isles'

(3) Sex

Ivan Crozier (University of New South Wales)-
'The professionalisation of sexology in fin de siecle England'

Wendy Kline (Munich)-
'How Dr Robert Dickinson convinced the medical profession that controlling
conception was an essential component of American medicine'

(4) Quacks

Roberta Bivins (WUHM, Manchester)-
'Projecting the profession: seeing Chinese medicine through the lens of the
ideal doctor'

Carsten Timmermann (CHSTM, Manchester)-
'Doctors and "the Other": the quackery question in interwar Germany'

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3.35 - 4.00 pm: Tea
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4.00 - 5.00 pm: Parallel 6 (4 Sessions)

(1) Narratives

Graham Smith (WUHM, Glasgow)-
'General Practitioners: narratives, memories and changing identities'

Katherine Webb (York Health Trust)-'Images and dreams-- provincial
practitioners and professional identity in the mid-nineteenth-century city:
evidence from Manchester and York'

(2) Drugs

Stuart Anderson (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)-
'The professionalisation of the hospital Pharmacist in Great Britain 1923
to 1991: occupational boundaries and specialisation'

Daniel Malleck (Royal Military College, Ontario)-
'Doctors, druggists and the control over dangerous medicines in Canada,
1870-1908'

(3) Museums

M. Rene Burmeister (Rutgers)-
'Professional decency versus "obscene advertising": constructing medical
authority against "quack" museums'

Simon Chaplin (Royal College of Surgeons, England)-
'A tale of two museums: John Hunter, John Tomes and the professionalisation
of dentistry'

(4) Ethics

Nadav Davidovitch (Tel-Aviv)-
'"Odium Medicum": The AMA Code of Ethics Controversy'

Donald Joralemon (Sophia Smith)-
'Doctors on donation: transplantation specialists debate solutions to the
organ supply problem'
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5.00 - 6 pm: Plenary 3 (Presidential Address)

Prof. Sir Denis Pereira Gray (Pres. RCGP & Univ. Exeter)-
Title to be confirmed
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7 pm: Reception (Hunterian Museum)

8 pm: Dinner (Staff Club)
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Sunday 18 July

9 - 10.30 am: Parallel 7 (4 Sessions)

(1) Science and Psychiatry

Gayle Davis (Edinburgh)-
'Making Psychiatry scientific: the impact of the Laboratory on Clinical
Psychiatry at the Royal Edinburgh Asylum, c.1873-1920'

Christine Leuenberger (Cornell)-
'The Berlin Wall on the therapists' couch: a study of the Psychotherapeutic
community in transition'

Ian Spencer(Queen's Belfast)-
'R.D. Laing: a reactionary against the status quo'

(2) Comparisons I

Alexandra Bekasova (Russian Academy of Sciences)-
'The making of Russian doctors in Europe: academic peregrinations of
Russian medical students, 1761-1798'

Motzi Ekloef (Tema Institute)-
'In Memoriam: the ideal Swedish doctor'

Yuean-ling Chao (Middle Tennessee State University)-
'The identity of physicians in late Imperial China: professionals?'

(3) Specialists

Karl Holubar (Vienna)-
'The making of Dermatologists in central Europe'

Stephanie Snow (WUHM, Manchester)-
'Establishing authority, creating identity. The beginnings of specialist
Anaesthesia, 1846-1866'

Stella Fatovic-Ferencic (Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts)-
'The beginnings of Orthopeedics and rehabilitation in the territory of Croatia'

(4) Institutions

Hans Reichenfeld (Ottowa)-
'The Development of Medical Services-A Lesson from History: The Birmingham
Provident Dispensary'

Susan Snoxall (University of West England)-
'The Chelsea Hospital for Women: Gynaecologists and the Care and Treatment
of Women, 1930-1960'

Claire Jackson-
'The Member, the Fellow and the Franchise'
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10.30 - 11 am: Coffee / Tea
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10.30 - 11 am: Parallel 8 (3 Sessions)

(1) Jewishness

Eberhard Wolff (Robert Bosch Foundation, Stuttgart)-
'Medical professional identity as a means for Jewish acculturation'

Kenneth Collins (WUHM, Glasgow)-
'Asher Asher: religious physician and reformer'

(2) Careers

Timothy L. Alborn (Harvard)-
'Insurance against Germ Theory: commerce and conservatism in late-Victorian
medicine'

Marguerite Dupree and Anne Crowther (Glasgow)-
'Medical networks and medical careers in the late nineteenth century:
graduates from Scottish universities at home and abroad'

Susan Hardy (University of New South Wales)-
'"Dr Pringle and Mr Pratt": disharmony and disunity among the doctors in
nineteenth-century New South Wales'

(3) Comparisons II

Rita M.J. Schepers (Leuven)-
'The Belgian and Dutch experience of professionalization'

Maria Eliana Labra (Oswald Cruz Foundation)-
'Medical interest politics and health policy in Chile'

Lianne McTavish (New Brunswick)-
'The performance of obstetrical authority in early-modern France'

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12.30 - 1.00 pm: Endnote
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James Bradley
Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, 
5, University Gardens,  Glasgow G12 8QQ
0141 330-4803
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OR

39/2 Constitution St., Edinburgh EH6 7BG
0131 467-0310
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