Preliminary Programme

Showing: Health and Environment (all days)
Wed 22 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14:15
    16:30

Thu 23 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14:15
    16:30

Fri 24 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14:15
    16:30

Sat 25 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14:15
    16:30

All days
Wednesday 22 March 2006 8:30
F-1 HEA01 Big People
Room F
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Sanjoy Bhattacharya
Organizers: - Discussant: Patrick Zylberman
Anne Hardy, Nils Rosdahl : Building confidence in biological products: Thorvald Madsen, Denmark and International Health between the wars
Socrates Litsios : Selskar 'Mike' Gunn (1883-1944): A born imaginative Leader
Lion Murard : Health policy between the international and the local: Jacques Parisot in Nancy and Geneva (1919-1939)
Esteban Rodriguez Ocaña : Gustavo Pittalugia (1876-1956): Science as a weapon for social reform in time of crisis



Wednesday 22 March 2006 10:45
F-2 HEA02 State interventions and private negotiations in the practice of colonial medicine
Room F
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Rosa Medina-Domenech
Organizers: - Discussant: Rosa Medina-Domenech
Nandini Bhattacharya : "Tropical Aggregation of Labour?" Contested territories in the tea plantation enclaves in colonial Bengal, India
Sanjoy Bhattacharya : Marking the limits of state power?: Reassessing the dynamics of smallpox vaccination in British India, 1857-1947
Kai Khiun Liew : “Everybody’s business becomes nobody’s business.” Demarcating responsibilities of public health in the Rubber plantations of British Malaya (1900s-1942)
Kavita Sivaramakrishnan : Contesting the claims of Colonial'scientific' medicine: Indigenous Medical Practitioners and the politics of recasting scientificauthority in British Colonial India (1890-1940)



Wednesday 22 March 2006 14:15
T-3 HEA04 Marketing Health
Room T
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Bernard Harris
Organizers: - Discussant: Bernard Harris
Iris Borowy : The Effect of World Depression: How to safeguard Public Health with Little Money
Ximo Guillem-Llobat : Medicine and Economy in saccharin regulation
Riitta Oittinen : “Why are flesh and blood so cheap but bread so expensive? “ - Health, Class Struggle and Political Argumentation in Early 20th Century Finland



Thursday 23 March 2006 8:30
C-5 HEA09 Health in the Middle East
Room C
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Iris Borowy
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Kenneth Collins : Britons, Arabs and Jews: Three Approaches to Trachoma in British Palestine: 1918-1948.
Miri Shefer-Mossensohn : Medicine between the Universal and the Cultural -- The Ottoman Case
Sachlav Stoler-Liss, Shifra Shvarts : “Does Mother Works for Tnuva Dairy?”: Breastfeeding, National Ideology, Public Health Nurses and the Mass Immigration to Israel during the 1950's
Patrick Zylberman : Coping with a weak state. The Ottoman Empire, cholera and the Muslim Pilgrimage



Thursday 23 March 2006 10:45
F-6 HEA06 Health and Nations
Room F
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Lion Murard
Organizers: - Discussant: Lion Murard
Julie Boddy : Radiation Sickness and Nation Building in the United States during the Cold War: Testimony to the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments
Despina Karakatsani, Vassiliki Theodorou : Orientations of the health policy in Greec during the inter-war period: the first attempts to develop social hygiene services for children
Jose Martínez Pérez : "On 'the fit' vs. 'parasites': Scientific Management, Orthopaedics,disability and the modernisation of the Nation (Spain, 1922-1932)
José Pardo-Tomás, Àlvar Martínez-Vidal & Enrique Perdiguero : “Per la Ciència i per la Pàtria”: medical catalanism (1898-1936)



Thursday 23 March 2006 14:15
O-7 HEA07 Moral Transgression and Illness: Comparative Perspectives in the Cultural History of Medicine, 900-1900
Room O
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Douglas Aiton
Organizers: - Discussant: Douglas Aiton
Alaric Hall : Elves, illness, sex and gender in the early medieval British Isles
Markku Hokkanen : Moral Transgression, Disease, and Holistic Health in the Livingstonia Mission in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Northern Malawi.
Eilola Jari : Moral Transgression and Illness in the Early Modern North
Karen Nolte : Cervical Cancer and "sexual deviancy“ – history of a moral discourse



Friday 24 March 2006 8:30
K-9 HEA10 Nutrition
Room K
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Hilary Marland
Organizers: - Discussant: Catherine Cox
Josep Lluís Barona : Nutrition and Health: the International Sanitary Movement and Spain (1920-1939)
Francisco Muñoz Pradas, Roser Nicolau : Milk consumption, health and survival in infancy in contemporary Spain (1860-1950)
Chad Ross : Food for Thought: Diet, Health, Morality and the Reform of Life
Ulrike Thoms : West versus East? Nutritional policy in the two Germanies 1945-1964



Friday 24 March 2006 10:45
E-10 HEA05 Financing Health
Room E
Networks: Health and Environment , Social Inequality Chair: Godelieve van Heteren
Organizers: - Discussants: -
K.P. Companje : Medical care for resident servants, 1890-1910. Legislation, insurance and care supply
Bruce Fetter : The quest for clean numbers: The intersection of historical demography and classic methods for historical criticism
Stephanie Neuner : State insurance and welfare policy for "war-neurotics" of WW I. Politics and Psychiatry in Germany, c. 1920-1939.
Joost van Genabeek, Leo Van Bergen : Dutch history of social insurance medicine



Friday 24 March 2006 14:15
K-11 HEA08 Health and Sexuality
Room K
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Roger Davidson
Organizers: - Discussant: Roger Davidson
Eva Canaleta Safont, Joana Maria Pujades Mora : Medical speech and municipal policy about the prostitution. Palma de Mallorca, 1862-1900
Herwig Czech : Sex and the Gender of Infection: Venereal Disease, Prostitution and Medical Control of Sexuality in Nazi Vienna
Hans Neefs : From moralism to pragmatism? A historical comparison of Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) prevention during the interwar period and the last decades of the 20th century in Belgium.
Kamila Uzarczyk : Hereditary burdened ? Discussion on the causes of prostitution in interwar Poland



Friday 24 March 2006 16:30
J-12 HEA11 Health in Northern Europe
Room J
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Anne Hardy
Organizers: - Discussant: Anne Hardy
Anne Cameron : The Establishment of General Registration in Scotland
Katarina Piuva : Mental hygiene in Sweden- Biopolitics of body and mind
Cecilia Riving : A madman in the family. Conceptions and definitions of mentally ill in the community and the asylum during the second half of the nineteenth century
Jens Widding : Conflict and Negotiation. The introduction of public health legislation in 19th century Sweden


W-12 HEA03 Health, Africa and Race
Committee Room 2
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Bruce Fetter
Organizers: - Discussant: Bruce Fetter
Jennifer Brier : Internationalizing AIDS
Kristen Intemann : Science, Health, and Values: Ideology and the Concept of Race in U.S. Epidemiology 1980-Present
Julie Livingston : Debility and the History of AIDS Care in Botswana
Rosa Medina-Domenech : Scientific technologies of national identity as colonial legacies, The case of Spain and the African colony of Equatorial Guinea (1900-1959)



Saturday 25 March 2006 8:30
U-13 HEA13 Perceptions of Health
Room U
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Astri Andresen
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Vicky Long : Visions of the Workplace as a Place of Health Improvement in Britain: the Health of Munition Workers Committee 1915-19
Hilary Marland : Shaping the 'New Girl' in Health Advice Literature in Britain, c.1900
Peter Washer : Representations of SARS



Saturday 25 March 2006 14:15
A-15 HEA12 Vaccination & Immunization
Room A
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Heiner M. Fangerau
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Logie Barrow : Some Paradoxes of English Vaccination to 1914
Ed Cohen : Immune Communities, Common Immunities
Justo Hernandez : The Royal Philanthropic Expedition of the Vaccine in the Canary Islands (december, 1803, the 9th - January, 1804, the 6th)



Saturday 25 March 2006 16:30
W-16 HEA14 Health in the Laboratory
Committee Room 2
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Timothy Lenoir
Organizers: - Discussant: Christoph Gradman
Heiner M. Fangerau : Technical Biology and Experiments on Star Fish. The Role of Sea Animals, Institutions and Scientific Communities in the Development of Regenerative Medicine.
Norbert W. Paul : Experimental Technologies and the Public Sphere – Richard Goldschmidt and the Beginnings of Regenerative Medicine
Frank W. Stahnisch : Transforming the Lab: Technological and Societal Concerns in the Pursuit of De- and Regeneration in the Morphological Neurosciences in Germany 1910-1930


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