Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 13:03:11 GMT0BST From: Keir Waddington <[log in to unmask]> The International Network for the History of Hospitals is holding its second internation conference, "Hospitals and Health: The Balance Sheet" in Verona, Italy from 19-21 April. The conference covers hospital history over the last millenium addressing the hospitals impact on society, patients, demography and subscribers drawing together a wide range of speakers from across Europe and America. There is no registration fee. For further information, see programme below or visit http://www.inhh.homestead.com/verona.html or contact [log in to unmask] Dr Keir Waddington Secretary, International Network for the History of Hospitals Programme THURSDAY 19 APRIL 12-13.30: Arrival and Registration Opening of conference proceedings Session One: Hospital Finance and Patronage Chair: John Henderson (University of Cambridge) =0F Commentator (Steven Cherry, UEA, Norwich) Matthew Sneider (Brown University) "Hospital finance in sixteenth- century Bologna" Marina Gharbellotti (University of Trento) "The Commune and the Hospital. Aspects of Charity and Welfare of the Commune of Verona, seventeenth to eighteenth centuries" Gunnar Stollberg and Ingo Tamm (University of Bielefeld), "Internal Differentiation in German Hospitals during the nineteenth century with special reference to Munich and Leipzig" John Welshman (University of Lancaster): Inequalities in Health, Resource Allocation and the Early National Health Service: the Sheffield Regional Hospital Board, 1947-74 DINNER =0F =0E FRIDAY 20 APRIL Session Two: Urban and Rural Topography: Symbols and Environments Chair: Carole Rawcliffe (UEA, Norwich) =0F Commentator: Romano Delnord (Florence): and Giuseppina De Sandre Gasparini (University of Trento) Max Satchell (Suffolk County Council Archaeology Service) "Towards a landscape history of the rural hospital in medieval England, 1100- 1300" Christine Stevenson (University of Reading) "Prints 'proper to shew to Gentlemen': the representational topography of the eighteenth- century British voluntary hospital" Sergio Onger (University of Brescia) "Hospitals in town and countryside: Brescia, eighteenth to twentieth centuries" Annemarie Adams (McGill University, Montreal) "That was Then, This is Now. Hospital Architecture in the Age(s) of 'Revolution', 1970-2001" LUNCH Session Three: Hospitals and Health - The Patients=92 Experience in the Hospitals Chair: Mario Marigo (University of Verona) =0F Commentator: Bernardino Fantini (University of Geneva) Louise Gray (Wellcome Institute, London), "The role of hospitals in the lives of the chronically ill. Self-experience and the capability amidst illness in the narratives of the rural poor in early modern Germany" Eric Gruber Von Arni (Army Medical Services Museum, Aldershot) "'Tempora mutantur Et Nos Mutamur In Illis=92. The experience of sick and wounded soldiers and their families during the English Civil War and the Interregnum, 1642-1660" Flurin Condrau (University of Munich) "The institutional career of tuberculosis in Britain and Germany during the early twentieth century" Martin Dinges (Institute for the History of Medicine of the Robert Bosch Foundation, Stuttgart) "Patients and homeopathic hospitals in nineteenth-century Europe" DINNER =0F =0E SATURDAY 21 April Session Four: The Hospital and the Community Chair: Carlo Corsini (University of Florence) =0F Commentator: Richard Smith (University of Cambridge) Alysa Levene (University of Cambridge) "Saving the Innocents: Life and Death in the Foundling Hospitals of London and Florence, 1714- 1799" Graham Mooney (Wellcome Institute, London) and Andrea Tanner (Great Ormond Street Hospital, London), "=91Death on the Wards=92: The impact of hospitals on local mortality levels in nineteenth-century London" Diego Ramiro (University of Madrid) "Mortality in Hospitals and Mortality in the City in nineteenth-century Spain" Marco Geddes da Filicaia (Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Genoa) "The Italian Hospital System between Past and Future" =0F Closing Address =0F For further information please contact Dr. Marina Garbellotti =0F C/o Istituto Storico Italo-Germanico =0F Via S. Croce 77 =0F I =96 38100 Trento =0F Italy E-mail:{HYPERLINK "mailto:[log in to unmask]"} [log in to unmask] ************************************************************* Keir Waddington Secretary, International Network for the History of Hospitals Address: The School of History and Archaeology, Cardiff University PO BOX 909, Cardiff CF1 3XU Telephone: 029 20876103 Fax: 029 20874929