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PROGRAMME Week Overview

Tuesday 27th August Wednesday 28th August

Registration & Welcome Reception—Medical School Conference Centre

08:00 - 09:00 Early Careers Research &

Registration

09:00 - 10:00 Keynote Speaker

Ludmilla Jordanova

10:00 - 10:15 Coffee Break

10:15 - 11:45 Panel 1a - 1e

11:45 - 12:00 Coffee Break

12:30 - 16:00 Workshop 12:00 - 16:30 Panel 2a - 2e

From: 14:00 Registration 13:30 - 14:15 Lunch and Round Table Panel

16:00 - 17:00 EAHMH Old Board Meeting 14:15 - 15:45 Panel 3a - 3e

17:00- 18:00 Welcome Introductory

Talk

15:45 - 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30 Panel 4a - 4e

18:00- 19:00 Welcome Reception

19:00 Free Evening

PROGRAMME Week Overview

Thursday 29th August Friday 30th August

Conference Centre Conference Centre

08:00 - 09:00 Early Careers Research 08:00 - 09:00 Early Careers Research

09:00 - 10:00 Keynote Speaker Tracey Loughran

09:00 - 10:00 Keynote Speaker

Robert Jutte

10:00 - 10:15 Coffee Break 10:00 - 10:15 Coffee Break

10:15 - 11:45 Panel 5a - 5e 10:15 - 11:45 Panel 9a - 9e

11:45 - 12:00 Coffee Break 11:45 - 12:00 Coffee Break

12:00 - 13:30 Panel 6a - 6e 12:00 - 13:30 Panel 10a - 10d

13:30 - 14:15 Lunch, Round Table Panel and

AGM Meeting 13:30 - 14:15

Lunch and Round Table Panel

14:15 - 15:45 Panel 7a - 7e 14:15 - 15:15 Keynote Speaker - Vanessa

Heggie

15:45 - 16:00 Coffee Break 15:15 - 15:30 Closing remarks

16:00 - 17:30 Panel 8a - 8e

16:30 - 18:30 Canal Trip

19:30-23:55 Conference Dinner & Book

Awards

Times Wolfson Common

Room Leonard Deakin Theatre CM01 WF15

12:30 - 16:00

Workshop - Senses and Health/care

Environments (Lunch provided)

From 14:00 Registration

16:00-17:00 EAHMH

Old Board Meeting

17:00-18:00 Welcome - Introductory Talk

18:00-19:00 Welcome Reception

PROGRAMME Tuesday 27th August University of Birmingham, Medical and Dental School

PROGRAMME

Times Fry Conference Room Bantock Elgar Corelli Lodge

08:00 - 09:00 Early Careers and

Registration Early Careers Early Careers Early Careers Early Careers

09:00 - 10:00 Keynote Speaker - Ludmilla Jordanova in Fry Conference Room 'Medicine and the Senses'

10:00 - 10:15 Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break

10:15 - 11:45

Panel 1a Visual, venereal and

invisible

Panel 1b Rethinking healthcare in

colonial and post-colonial India

Panel 1c Disability and Senses

Panel 1d Individual and Collective

Senses

Panel 1e Senses and Certification

Chair: Anne Hanley Chair: Anne Hardy Chair: Rosemary Cresswell Chair: Chair: Heiner Fangerau

*Susann Holmberg - Making sense of visual signs of

disease: Identifying veneral disease in 18th Century

Norway

*Manikarnika Dutta - The Health and Moral Welfare of European and American

Seamen in Nineteenth-Century British India

Louise Bell - "The only thing I dread is losing a limb - I'd far rather be killed": Limb-less men is Britain after the

First World War

*Leonardo Capanni - Les fausses sensations: The Rise of Synaesthesia in

France, between Physiology, Psychology

and Mental Health

Catherine Beck - 'Never sleeps in his hammock': Marks of insanity in the British Navy 1740-1820

*James Grannell - Burning sheets and body-bags: The senses and the history of

HIV/AIDS in the Republic of Ireland, 1982-92

*Arnab Chakraborty - From curative to

preventive medical practices: the role of

medical services in colonial Madras (1880-1914)

*David Saunders -"The neighbourhood of the in-

jured limb": Pain, pleasure and crush syndrome in the

London Blitz, 1940-41

*Sophy Bergenheim -Fearing degeneration,

engineering the future - Finnish social and health

policy organisations, pub-lic health and psychiatry

(1920's-1950's)

*Filippo Maria Sposini - Establishing Nonsense:

The certification of insanity between stand-

ardization and consensus (c. 1873-1890)

Iris Borowy - Radioactive Wastes: How to Deal with

an Unsensable Risk

Namrata Ganneri - Forgotten 'warriors'? Indian doctors in the

national smallpox eradication programme

*Geoffrey Hudson - Assistive devices, the senses & disa-

bility rights in Canada, c. 1975-1990

*Polina Merkulova - Making sense of teaching

scientific medical psychology in Mid-

Victorian Britain

Willemijn Ruberg - Hysteria revisited:

diagnosing hysteria in Dutch forensic psychiatry

(1900-1930)

11:45 - 12:00 Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break

Wednesday 28th August- Morning Sessions University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Park Conference Centre

PROGRAMME

Times Fry Conference Room Bantock Elgar Corelli Lodge

12:00 - 13:30

Panel 2a

Women’s health and expertise in post-war Britain

Panel 2b

Perceiving Selfhood

Panel 2c

Measuring Senses and Insensibility

Panel 2d

Sensory experience and public health in

pre-modern Italian cities

Panel 2e

Publicity, health rhetoric and consumer knowledge

in the medical market place

Chair: Tracey Loughran Chair: Noortje Jacobs Chair: Graeme Gooday Chair: Sarah Fox Chair: Hannah J. Elizabeth

Kate Mahoney - Making sense of ourselves: Women's

Health activism, patient consumer groups and

medical authority in Britain, c. 1960-1990

Christopher Milnes - Euphoria: The

misperception of health in western medical history

Gemma Almond - 'They eye that is in measure':

Establishing normal and abnormal vision in the

nineteenth century

Alex Bamji -Smelling, seeing and touching

death in early modern Venice

*Fabiola Creed '65 hours sunbathing' or '7 hours on

a sunbed': The sensible sunbed consumer

(England, 1980-1982)

*Hannah Froom - 'Off days', 'Black days' and a 'Tensed up Depressed feeling'. Periods and pain relief advertising in teen magazines in Britian c.

1960-1980

*Cora Salkovskis - "I am an automatic lunatic": exploring the 'sense of

mental action' in nineteenth and early

twentieth century hallucination narratives

*Coreen McGuire - 'Normal' breathing? The use of vital capacity to standardise res-

piratory disability in the 1936-1942 Medical Research

Council surveys

Marie-Louise Leonard - Public health workers, the senses, and occupational health in early modern

Italy

Jessica Borge - Publicity in the Age of the Pill: TV and Public Relations Strategy

at the British Family Planning Association

Daisy Payling - Scents and non-scents: Mediating ex-

pertise in the campaign against vaginal deodorants,

c. 1969-1975

*Leander Diener - Marconi Transmitter of

the Universe, or: The 'Biological Law' of

Fighting. Making sense of the vegetative nervous

system in the early twentieth century

Laura Sellers - Comparing criminality and insanity;

Attempts to classify individuals in Victorian

institutions

*Marina Ini Lazzaretti, -quarantine and the role of

senses in eighteenth-century Italy

*Cynthia Tang - Publishing medical innovation: The emergence of minimally invasive surgery, 1989-

1995

13:30 - 14:15 Lunch and Round Table Presentation Making (Non) Sense of Madness Chaired by Matthew Smith

Wednesday 28th Afternoon Sessions — Part 1 University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Park Conference Centre

Times Fry Conference Room Bantock Elgar Corelli Lodge

14:15 - 15:45

Panel 3a

Activism, Emotions and public health campaigns in

Post War Britain.

Panel 3b

Translating class into clinical practice

Panel 3c

Putrefaction and Infection

Panel 3d

Making sense of medieval impairments audible and

(in)visible

Panel 3e

Making sense of infant care

Chair: Alex Mold Chair: Heiner Fangerau Chair: Octavian Buda Chair Chair: Hilary Marland

Caroline Rusterholz - Activism, Feelings and

Public Health Campaign, The Brook Advisory Centres

(1965-1985)

Jesper Vaczy Kragh - A habit of the rich. Opiate addition in late 19th and

early 20th century European psychiatry

Alessandra Quaranta - The use of the senses in

diagnosis and therapeutics in the sixteenth century.

The advice by the Imperial Physicians, Francesco

Partini and Pietro Andrea Mattioli

*Hillary Burgardt -Epilepsy in Middle Ages:

Blurring invisible and visible disability

*Lucie Bastiaens - I spy with my little expert eye: observations in modern infant care in Maastricht (the Netherlands) 1900-

1920

Hannah Elizabeth - Women's Experiences of HIV/AIDS disclosures as activism in Edinburgh,

1983-2000

Petteri Pietikainen - The indigent mentally ill in the late 19th and early

20th century Finland

Laurinda Abreu - Working in noisome

conditions: an affront to doctors’ social status (Portugal, 1780-1805)

*Geraldine Gnych - Speech, and the

Challenges of Impairment

*Jennie Sejr Junghans Sense or sensibility? -

the origins of child psy-chiatry in Denmark and England, c.1900-1950

*George Severs It isn't just your profession, it's what

you thought you were working for: The emotional

labour of voluntary and charitable HIV/AIDS work

as activism

*Eve Hyrkas Middle-class ideals in the Finnish

psychosomatic medicine from the 1950s to the

1980s

Alistair Ritch—Conflict and cooperation: Isolating fever

patients in nineteenth century England

Patricia Skinner - Visible disfigurement - Making

sense of a disrupted face

Joana Escamilla; Pilar de Castro; Pilar Leon-Sanz - Building a mental disor-

der. Attention deficit and hyperactivity in

Spain, during the first third of the 20th century

PROGRAMME Wednesday 28th Afternoon Sessions — Part 2 University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Park Conference Centre

PROGRAMME

Times Fry Conference Room Bantock Elgar Corelli Lodge

15:45 - 16:00 Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30

Panel 4a The limits of Medical expertise in the post-war British welfare

state education

Panel 4b Medical missions

Panel 4c Sensible responses to medical emergencies

Panel 4d Treatments and miracle

cures

Panel 4e Making sense of

madness

Chair: Sally Sheard Chair: Anne Hardy Chair: Anne Hanley Chair: Jonathan Simon Chair: Laurinda Abreu

Jennifer Crane - Medical

and experiential expertise and a, 1945 - present

*Maarten Langhendries - Left out in the cold:

Belgian doctors and their perception of

indigenous "fear" in the Congo (1925-1939)

Shane Ewen & Rebecca Wynter - From Cantlie to

casualty: Developing a sen-sible ambulance first re-

sponse for burns in Britain, c.1900-1950

Michael Zeheter - Tasting treatment: The drinking cure, mineral water and the connec-tion between taste and

medical potency

Cara Dobbing - Making sense of insanity: The pauper lunatic experi-ence of the Garlands Asylum, 1862-1914

Michael Lambert - Inside the national health satrapy:

technocrats, doctors and politics of expertise in the

National Health Services on post-war Merseyside,

1948-1974

*Reinout Vander Hulst -Indigenous medical

assistants in the Belgian Congo: spreading faith

through medicine

Jennifer Wallis - And you believe all that, great

simpleton: Making sense of Henry Silverster's method

of 'self-inflation'

*Erin Bramwell - Dim-pled and misshapen with an unusual appearance:

standardised texture, weight and clarity in

early to mid-twentieth century patent medicine

products

*Sarda Singh - Measuring the psychiatric space for the European lunatics in Colonial India through the Autobiography of

Owen Berkeley Hill

Gareth Millward - Production suffers, wages

are sacrificed - but who cares? Britain's stubborn refusal to drop the sick

note, 1948-1982

Rosemary Cresswell - The Psychology of First Aid -

from first aiders' responses to 'psychic crises'

Carsten Timmermann - Managing a miracle

cure: the disenchant-ment of interferon

*Janka Kovacs - Making sense of madness:

Mental maladies in 18th and early 19th century

medical case histories in Hungary

Free evening / EAHM Board Dinner 17:30-22:00

Wednesday 28th Late Afternoon Sessions University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Park Conference Centre

PROGRAMME Thursday 29th Morning Sessions University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Park Conference Centre

Times Fry Conference Room Bantock Elgar Corelli Lodge

08:00 - 09:00 Early Careers Early Careers Early Careers Early Careers Early Careers

09:00 - 10:00 Keynote Speaker - Tracey Loughran in Fry Conference Room 'Feeling Time: Embodiment, Experience and Women's "Everyday Health" in

Post-war Britain' - Introduced by Rosemary Cresswell

10:00 - 10:15 Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break

10:15 - 11:45 Panel 5a

Sense, sensibility and the institutionalised insane

Panel 5b Alcohol and senses

Panel 5c The sensory world of

childbirth

Panel 5d Seeing and not seeing

Panel 5e Sensing hospitals Part 1

Chair: Rebecca Wynter Chair: Frank Huisman Chair Chair Chair: Martin Moore

Leonard Smith - Out of their senses: Insanity and

admission to the madhouse, 1650-1815

Stephen Mawdsley - "Ginger jags": Experiencing

Jamaica ginger in 19th Century America

Richard Whitt - The language of knowledge and evidence in early

modern English midwifery writing (ca. 1500-1800)

Fernando Salmon - Seeing what is not there: The brain, the eye and the

extended body in medieval medicine

Marie Allitt - "The air with-out": Sensory experiences

of ventilation, air flow, and windows in the

modern hospital

Stef Eastoe - Singing and sadness. Exploring the

emotional and sensorial world of the long-stay

asylum

Ryosuke Yokoe - 'Brewers, booze, and medicine: Industrial funding of scientific research on

alcoholic liver disease in 1980's Britain'.

Sarah Fox - Groaning, grunting and 'stagnant animal effluevia': the sensory experience of

giving birth in eighteenth century England

Jonathan Simon - Seeing to the blind: Molyneux's problem and the medical

profession

Victoria Bates: From trolleys to traffic: Defining

noise and silence in the NHS hospital

Rob Ellis - Making sense of foreigners in London's asy-

lums, 1888-1914

Alice Mauger - Making sense of the "Drunken

Irish": Medical responses to the "Drink Problem" in twentieth century Ireland

Lizzie Marx - Decaying whales and fumigated

wombs: Smell and health in the art of the Dutch

Golden Age

Michael Flexer - Finding yourself waiting: a semio-

tician's guide to how waiting rooms construct temporalities and identi-ties for their waiters, and what we can do about it

11:45 - 12:00 Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break

PROGRAMME Thursday 29th Afternoon Sessions — Part 1 University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Park Conference Centre

Times Fry Conference Room Bantock Elgar Corelli Lodge

12:00 - 13:30

Panel 6a Feeling embodiment:

Bodies and Emotions in England 1600-1650

Panel 6b Diets and drugs

Panel 6c Degeneration and

deprivation

Panel 6d Senseless Deaths

Panel 6e Children’s voices and

agency

Chair: Sarah Fox Chair: Jonathan Simon Chair: Hilary Marland Chair Chair:

Sasha Handley - Wedding feasts, fertility and good-

humoured cows in seventeenth century

England

Karel Cerny - Making sense of new taste: Coffee, tea and chocolate in early modern

European diet

Claire Deligny - 'Sense and senility': old age at the

Lancaster, Prestwich and Rainhill Lancashire asylums

1885-1914

Ciara Breathnach - Soundscapes in evi-dence: Dublin City

Coroner's Court 1876-1901

Elisabeth M. Yang - Moral Agency and personhood of in-

fants in medical and pedagogical literature of Pre-Darwinian America

Karen Harvey - 'so Peuerly in spiritts': Sensing health

in body and emotion in eighteenth century letters

Peder Clark - 'E' and 'cake': MDMA and other 'made-up' drugs on British television,

1988-2000

Janet Weston - Determining mental

incapacity in mid-twentieth century

England & Wales and the Republic of Ireland

Hanna Kuusi - "Senses of danger - Miners' experiences and

occupational safety in 1930-60's Finland"

Flurin Condrau - Children, their families and the management

of "intersex" bodies at the Children's Hospital in Zurich

(1945-1970)

Sally Holloway - 'Dead love: Emotions, embodiment and the broken heart in England, c.1720-1850'

Yun Huang - "The great majority are extremely afraid of even the smallest prick":

Making sense of the introduction of cocaine into

and its use in China 1880's-1910's

Louise Hide - Desensitised to desensitisation?

Sensory deprivation and 'institutionalisation' in

long-stay wards of English post-war mental

hospitals

Ian Miller - Sensing the troubles: Radical politics,

social psychology and trauma, c.1968-1988

*Andrew Burchell 'Making sense of speech and its therapists: medicine vs

elocution in early twentieth century Britain'

13:30 - 14:15

Round Table Presentation ’New Archive Resources for the History of Medicine and Health’ Chaired by Chris Hassan & SSHM AGM Meeting - Chairs: Rosemary Cresswell and Victoria Bates

Times Fry Conference Room Bantock Elgar Corelli Lodge

14:15 - 15:45 Panel 7a

Hospital Spaces

Panel 7b Making sense of psychiatric

reform?

Panel 7c Perceiving touch

Panel 7d Maternal Feelings

Panel 7e Tactile and tactful healing

Chair: Victoria Bates Chairs: Petteri Pietikainen &

Heiner Fangerau Chair: Chair: Kaat Wils Chair:

Philip Begley - The Americanisation of the

British Hospital: Rhetoric and reality

Chantal Maraqzia - Common roots, common reform? Franco Basaglia and the

German psychiatric reform

*Amie Bolissian McRae Rubbing them up the

right way: Touch therapies for older

patients in early modern England

*Jolien Gijbels Medical concepts of pain: the

role of physicians' faith in the negotiations over anesthesia during child-

birth (Belgium, 1840-1914)

*Thomas Rohringer - "Along paved pathways" - Physiology and psychology in the welfare for dis-abled veterans in the Habsburg

Monarch 1914 - 1918

Martin Moore - Why not include an aquarium or

small aviary? The materiality of NHS waiting

rooms in Britains's Queuetopia, c. 1948-1958

Mikko Myllykangas - To re-form psychiatry or society? 'November Movement' as a radical/reformist psychiatric movement in Finland in the

1960's and 70's

Tania Woloshyn - Touch, retouch: the art of twen-

tieth-century British naturism

Hieke Huistra - Staying home: Giving birth in

the Netherlands in the early twentieth century

Kay Nias - Massage and the history of physiotherapy

Joana Balsa de Pinho - Materiality and sensorality: architecture and material culture in the renascence

hospitals in Portugal

Oisin Wall - Reforming prison psychiatry in the age of dein-

stitutionalisation

Janet Greenlees - Maternal feelings and the development of

American prenatal care

*Marisa De Picker - Sensible human engineering of fragile

bodies and sensitive minds. The vocational rehabilitation of

Belgian physically disabled Great War soldiers, 1914-1925

15:45 - 16:00 Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break

PROGRAMME Thursday 29th Afternoon Sessions — Part 2 University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Park Conference Centre

PROGRAMME Thursday 29th Late Afternoon Sessions

Times Fry Conference Room Bantock Elgar Corelli Lodge

16:00 - 17:30 Panel 8a

Body Clocks

Panel 8b Healthcare Systems

Panel 8c Novel lenses on the

senses

Panel 8d Sensing Diabetes

Panel 8e Sensory models

Chair: Gayle Davis Chair: Christoph Gradmann Chair: Anne Hardy Chair: Octavian Buda Chair: Jonathan Simon

Rima Apple - "A sense of timing: Physicians, mothers,

and the decision to delay maternity

Noortje Jacobs - The new gatekeepers of

authoritative science Dutch public funding of health research, 1945-

present

Joris Vandendriessche - Nonsense in medical publishing. French

accusations of Belgian plagiarism and the rise

of originality in nineteenth

century medicine

Timo Bolt - Defining diseases—framing

disease 2.0

Jennifer Kosmin - Modelling Authority:

Obstetrical models and the senses in eighteenth

century Italy

*Maia Isabelle Woolner Time sensitive:

Chronopathology and mental health in the

twentieth century

Christopher Sirrs - 'Ideology over theory:

World Bank policy on user charges for health care,

1978-1993

Elise Smith - Medicine, morality and melodra-ma: Elizabeth Seifert and the invention of

American medical romance

*Stuart Bradwel - ’An unwarrantable risk’: The

ideological legacy of ‘intensified’ insulin

therapy’s lay-pioneers, 1922-1993

Heini Hakosalo - Dissecting persona: The anatomy course as an emotional and sensory experience, Finland C.

1880-1950

Frank Huisman - Sense and nonsense of health

legislation: The realities of the 'Laws of Thorbecke',

1865-1901

Annmarie Adams -

A spatial history of the Holmes heart

Conference Meal - "A Taste of Birmingham—A Curry Night" and Book Awards

19:30-23:55

PROGRAMME Friday 30th Morning Sessions University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Park Conference Centre

Times Fry Conference Room Bantock Elgar Corelli Lodge

08:00 - 09:00 Early Careers Early Careers Early Careers Early Careers Early Careers

09:00 - 10:00

Keynote Speaker - Robert Jutte "The senses on the battlefield: from World War I to World War II" Fry Conference Room

10:00 - 10:15 Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break

10:15 - 11:45 Panel 9a

Surgery and emotion Panel 9b

Modern Medical Visions Panel 9c

Convening conception

Panel 9d Making sense of travelling

knowledge

Panel 9e Politics of vaccination

Chair: Alison Moulds Chair: Tracey Loughran Chair: Kaat Wils Chair: Nils Hansson Chair: Dora Vargha

Michael Brown - Robert Liston: emotions,

performance and the making of an ambivalent surgical icon

Beatriz Pichel - Photographic innovations and the many ways to look at patients

Agata Ignaciuk - Sensing nature. "Natural regulation

of conceptions" in state-socialist Poland (1970s-

1980s)

Nils Hansson - Travelling medical knowledge and

communication: perspec-tives and open research

questions

Axel Huntelmann - Smallpox vaccination in the German Empire: Vaccination

between bio politics and moral economy

James Kennaway - Ideas of surgical fortitude among

"Saxon" English and "Celtic" Scots, Irish and Welsh Troops,

1815-1914

Katherine Rawling - Sight and touch: creating the asylum

case book in the late nineteenth century

Vicky Long - Making savings: Prenatal screening for neural tube defects in

the UK

Anders Ottosson - The hidden European origins of osteopathy and chiroprac-

tic - migrating medical knowledge and the birth of

new concepts and professional histories

Maria-Isabel Porras & Victoria Caballero - The standardisation of vaccines

against poliomyelitis and diptheria, tetanus and pertussis in Spain through

the collaboration with the WHO (1958-1975)

Agnes Arnold-Forster - The

halcyon days of yore: Nostalgia and the NHS

Harriet Palfreyman - Surgical sight/artistic eye: illustrating surgery in the mid-twentieth

century

Gayle Davis - Making sense of the 1967 abortion act: Medical decision-making

at the boundary

Ulrika Lagerlof Nilsson - Ethnic and professional

clashes: migrating midwifery cultures and obstetrics in late nine-teenth century Chicago

Baptiste Baylac-Paouly - Confronting an emergency: the vaccination

campaign against meningitis in Brazil (1974-1975)

Lourdes Marino & Maria-Jose Baguena -

The introduction of mumps vaccine in Spain

Stuart Blume & Anne Hagen Berg - Rea-sonable grounds? The delayed introduc-

tion of MMR vaccine in Denmark and the Netherlands, 1980-1990

11:45 - 12:00 Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break

PROGRAMME

Times Fry Conference Room Bantock Elgar Corelli

12:00 - 13:30 Panel 10a

Health inside: Public engagement and the prison

Panel 10b Sensing Hospitals Part Deux

Panel 10c Sensing ‘Others’

Panel 10d Making sense of infertility

Chair: Catherine Cox Chair: Michael Brown Chair: Octavian Buda Chair: Kaat Wils

Hilary Marland - Past Time: Prison

food, history and theatre

Clare Hickman - "Their songs will rejoice many weak hearts:

Birds and the therapeutic hospital environment

Andrew Kettler - Triangle trading on the pungency of race: African bodies and the

master's nose

Marina Hilber - Making sense of infertility - patients, gynaecologies

and changing strategies at the end of the nineteenth century

Rachel Bennett - On the inside:

Connecting past and present testimonies of Mothers in prison

Agnes Arnold-Forster - Senses and spaces of surgery: The operating theatre in early twentieth century surgery

Pavla Jirkova - "Those who are then delirious, should not be

beaten or tormented": Sensory & emotional response of the early modern population

to the plague

Tinne Claes - Making sense of donor insemination

Catherine Cox - The trial: Talking about history and creating our

stories

Emma Cheatle - Maintaining the hospital: workers, matter and

practices, past and present

Yuliya Hilevych - From fertility aware-ness to infertility consciousness: the emergence of infertility awareness

movement in Britain in late 1970's-1980's

Oisin Wall - Living inside:

Adapting activist tactics to the exhibition space

13:30 - 14:15 Lunch and Round Table Presentation ‘ Public Engagement in the History of Medicine’ - Chaired by Hilary Marland

14:15 - 15:15 Keynote Speaker Vanessa Heggie - "Not in public: the challenges of writing women and gender into the (public) history of biomedicine"

Fry Conference Room - Introduced by Professor Jonathan Reinarz

15:15 - 15:30 Closing Remarks

16:30 -18:30 Canal Trip from the Vale - 2 hours

Friday 30th Afternoon Sessions University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Park Conference Centre

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