Preliminary Programme

Showing: room G (all days)
Tue 26 February
    14.15
    16.30

Wed 27 February
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Thu 28 February
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Fri 29 February
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Sat 1 March
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

All days
Tuesday 26 February 2008 14.15
G-1 HEA01 Recent Public Health I: Research and Strategies
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Signild Vallgårda
Organizers: Virginia Berridge, Signild Vallgårda Discussant: Virginia Berridge
Luc Berlivet : In the shadow of biomedicine. The transformation of public health research in France, 1941-1978
Ivana Dobrivojevic Tomic : Health and Hygiene Situation in Yugoslavia 1945 - 1955
Alex Mold : Health Consumerism and Public Health in Britain Since the 1960s: The Role of Patient Consumer Groups
Sabine Schleiermacher : The Impact on Public Health of Return Medical Refugees in the Eastern Part of Germany after World War II
Sigrid Stoeckel : The Individual: the medical viewpoint versus the public health perspective in post-war Western Germany and Great Britain



Tuesday 26 February 2008 16.30
G-2 HEA02 Recent Public Health II: Policies
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Sigrid Stoeckel
Organizers: Virginia Berridge, Signild Vallgårda Discussant: Sigrid Stoeckel
Virginia Berridge : The history of post war UK public health : a neglected area?
Marjaana Niemi : Health education for forest labourers and career women
Udo Schagen : Democratic Health System and Public Health: Debates in Exile and Post-War Realities
Signild Vallgårda : From universalism to needs assessment. Public health in Denmark and Sweden from 1930s and onwards



Wednesday 27 February 2008 8.30
G-3 HEA03 The health and social care interface: Britain and the United States 1930-2001
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Alex Mold
Organizers: - Discussant: Pat Thane
Martin Gorsky : The legacy of the Poor Law: institutional care of the elderly in the West of England, c. 1930-1960
Colleen Grogan : American Families Attempting to Care Amid Public Policies Encouraging Nursing Home Use and the Medicalization of Aging
Beatrix Hoffmann : Chronic Illness in the U.S. Health Care System: Separate and Unequal
John Welshman : From Training to Social Education: Research, Policy, and Care in the Community, 1948-2001



Wednesday 27 February 2008 10.45
G-4 HEA04 Midwives as Purveyors of Medical Culture
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Niklas Jensen
Organizers: - Discussant: Niklas Jensen
Stephan Curtis : Midwives and the Diffusion of Academic Medicine in 19th-century Sweden
Megan Davies : Countercultural Childbirth: Homebirth and Midwifery in the Kootenay Region of British Columbia, 1970-1990
Erla Dóris Halldórsdóttir : History of male midwifery in Iceland
Mette Roensager : Greenlandic Midwives 1820-1920: between Greenlandic and Danish cultures



Wednesday 27 February 2008 16.30
G-6 HEA06 International Anti-Tuberculosis in the Twentieth Century - Variations on a Theme?
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Teemu Sakari Ryymin
Organizers: - Discussant: Teemu Sakari Ryymin
Iris Borowy : International Tuberculosis Work between the Wars
Niels Brimnes : The troubled life of the BCG-Vaccine, 1945-82
Len Smith, Janet Mccalman : TB in Black and White: the contrasting mortality of dispossessed Aborigines and dislocated Europeans in Victoria, Australia, 1850-1950



Thursday 28 February 2008 8.30
G-7 HEA07 Food and Health: Enlightenment, Experimentation and Commerce, 1700-1960
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Josep Lluís Barona
Organizers: - Discussant: Josep Lluís Barona
Ximo Guillem-Llobat : The preservation of foodstuffs in Europe (1880 – 1910), challenging food policies and scientific authorities
Barbara Orland : “Back to Nature: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Alimentary Experiments, 1750-1800”
David Smith : Food security in the cold war: planning for a nuclear emergency, and the fate of Britain’s corned beef stockpile
Emma Spary : Demands of the Marketplace: Making, Selling and Tasting Health Foods in Paris, 1765-1810
Frank Stahnisch : François Magendie’s Physiological Nutrition Experiments, 1831-1841: Sensualist Convictions, Demonstrative Experimentation, and the Commercial Complex of the French ‘July Monarchy’



Thursday 28 February 2008 10.45
G-8 HEA08 Knowledge of Emotions and Subjectivity: an Historical Perspective
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Iris Borowy
Organizer: Rosa Medina-Domenech Discussant: Iris Borowy
Ivan Crozier : Culture, Psychiatry and the Case of Koro
Agita Luse : Politics of the ‘psy’ and endorsement of emotions. The case of the 20th century Latvia
Rosa Medina-Domenech : Sciences of love in Spain. Knowledge production of expert women and scientific experts during the Franco’s dictatorship (1939-1975)
Cecilia Riving : The family and the psychiatrist in 19th century Sweden
Deborah Thien : Disclosing Emotional Well being



Thursday 28 February 2008 14.15
G-9 HEA09 What practitioners did: Laboratory and clinic in the history of late 19th and early 20th century medicine
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Chris Crenner
Organizers: - Discussant: Chris Crenner
Tricia Close-Koenig : When confronted with tumours: The pathology laboratory for diagnosis in Strasbourg, 1919-1939.
Morten Hammerborg : The Laboratory and the Clinic: The Bergen Experience
Steve Sturdy : Ideal Places: Laboratory and Clinic in the History of Medicine



Thursday 28 February 2008 16.30
G-10 NMELI Network meeting: Elites
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Elites and forerunners Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussants: -



Friday 29 February 2008 8.30
G-11 HEA11 Public Health Responses to Infant Diseases in Europe, 1900-1965
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Astri Andresen
Organizers: - Discussant: Astri Andresen
Logie Barrow : Epidemic City Fathers
Marie Clark Nelson : Sun of the Knife: Treatin Children with Skeletal or other forms of Tuberculosis at Apelviken ca 1900-1930
María-Isabel Porras, Rosa Ballester : The incorporation of medical technology for the treatment of the acute stage of poliomyelitis in Spain (1940-1965)
Dora Vargha : The decade of summer fears: Polio epidemics in 1950's Hungary



Friday 29 February 2008 10.45
G-12 ORA20 Remembrances of Slave and Forced Labourers in Different Countries. An International Comparison
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Oral History Chair: Alexander Von Plato
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Gelinada Grinchenko : Ukrainian Ostarbeiters of the Third Reich: Remembering Patterns on Forced Labour in Nazi Germany (Past Soviet vs Contemporary National Discourses)
Dori Laub, Johanna Bodenstab : Jewish Slave Labor in the Context of the Holocaust
Almut Leh : Remeberences of Slave and Forced Labourers
Christoph Thonfeld : Former forced and slave labourers in Germany, Ukraine and Great Britain after 1945. Individual and collective memories of National Socialist forced labour in international comparison



Friday 29 February 2008 14.15
G-13 HEA13 Epidemics as Social Phenomena
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Logie Barrow
Organizers: - Discussant: Logie Barrow
Ida Blom : Path Dependence or Reform Capability? Scandinavian legislation on Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 1940's to 1990's
Elisabeth Engberg : “In every home, a sick: society’s response to pandemic influenza on the local level, before and after 1900: The example of Sweden”
Matthieu Fintz : Emerging Viruses, State of Emergency and the Manufacture of Health Crises in Egypt. Media Framing of Avian Flu and Other Invisible Enemies



Friday 29 February 2008 16.30
G-14 HEA14 Health, Power and Medical Knowledge in the Caribbean and Brazil, 1700-1900
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Adrian Lopez Denis
Organizers: - Discussant: Adrian Lopez Denis
Juanita De Barros, Jacques Dumont : Colonial Public Health in the Early Twentieth-century Caribbean
Betânia Figueiredo : Conceptions of Health in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Monica Garcia : Germs and Environment: the Trajectories of Fevers and Leprosy Germs in Colombia, 1860-1900.
Niklas Jensen : “…For the benefit of the planters and the benefit of Mankind…”. The struggle to control midwives and obstetrics on St. Croix, Danish West Indies, 1818-1848.



Saturday 1 March 2008 8.30
G-15 HEA15 Medicine, Life and Death: the German Context
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Jeannette Madarasz
Organizers: - Discussant: Jeannette Madarasz
Axel C. Huentelmann : State-run Public Health Institutions in Germany 1870-1930. Indirect Government and Health Policy
Karen Nolte : “Telling the painful truth” – nurses and physicians in the 19th century
Miri Shefer-Mossensohn : German Speaking Physicians and Health Administrators in the Modernization of Middle Eastern Medicines
Michael Stolberg : The medicalization of the death bed (1700-1850)



Saturday 1 March 2008 10.45
G-16 HEA16 Medicine and Health as Imperial Policy
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Juanita De Barros
Organizers: - Discussant: Juanita De Barros
Anna Crozier : ‘British ‘nerves’ and the management of Empire: negotiating colonialism and health before World War Two.
Hanrog Kang : Japanese colonial medicine in Korea
Adrian Lopez Denis : Where is the Atlantic History of Medicine?Smallpox and Yellow Fever in the Making of Cuban Colonialism, 1804-1835
Joao Rangel De Almeida : Revisiting Imperial Medicine: the 1851 International Sanitary Conference as a European imperial project.



Saturday 1 March 2008 14.15
G-17 ETH28 Migration and Identity
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Brian Gratton
Organizers: - Discussant: Brian Gratton
Mona Oikawa : Situating the Internment of Japanese Canadians in Relation to Colonial Processes of Subordinating Aboriginal Peoples in the Settler Society of Canada
Magnus Persson : Success or failure? Swedish strategies of migration between 1860 and 1960
Ruxandra Trandafoiu : European Union Enlargement and Diasporic Networks of Communication: the politicization of Romanian work diasporas in the United Kingdom, Spain and Italy



Saturday 1 March 2008 16.30
G-18 ETH29 Building Identities
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Colin Pooley
Organizers: - Discussant: Colin Pooley
Zuzana Polackova, Pieter Van Duin : National identity formation and national minority problems in Central Europe, 1900-1920: Vienna and Bratislava compared
Helion Póvoa-Neto : From emigration to immigration: the Italian turning point
Jan Rychlik : Freedom of Movement and Emigration in Habsburg Monarchy and Czechoslovakia, 1848-1989
Sibel Yardimci, Şükrü Aslan : Twilight Memorfries: ‘Home’ and ‘Homeland’ in the collective memory of Tunceli People Displaced in 1934


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