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Society for the Social History of Medicine Conference Programme University of Kent, Canterbury

7th-10th July 2016

Day One: Thursday 7th July

12.00-2.00pm

Registration Refreshments will be available Keynes Atrium

Foyer

2.00-2.30pm Welcome Julie Anderson (Organising Committee) and Carsten Timmermann (SSHM)

Keynes Lecture Theatre 1 (KLT1)

2.30-4.00pm Session 1

Panel A Incorrigible Drunkards: Spaces, Places and Cultures of Female Alcohol Abuse in the Nineteenth Century. Chair: Catherine Cox

Keynes Lecture Theatre 5

Lesley Hulonce Kate Taylor Craig Stafford

Freaks Like Us: Performing Female Drunkenness in Nineteenth-Century South Wales. Heart-Changes: The Moral Techniques Used by the Salvation Army in the Treatment of Female Inebriates, 1896-1901. “The Worst Woman in Rochdale”: Mary Kelly and Female Drinking Networks in Mid-Victorian Rochdale.

Panel B Sites of Organisation for Reproductive and Sexual Decision Making Chair: Elizabeth Toon


Clare Parker Kate Law Anne Hanley

Is there a Doctor in the House? Abortion and Medical Decision-Making in Parliament. Own Goal? The British Anti-Apartheid Movement and South Africa’s Resignation from the International Planned Parenthood Federation, c. 1984-1987. State-Support Patient Care for Venereal Diseases in England, 1918-1939.

Panel C Scientific and Medical Environments for Women Chair: Graeme Gooday

Keynes Seminar Room 13

Tom Quick

A Tool of Emancipation? British Women Microscopists and the Technical Language of Professionalism (1860-1895).

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Jimmy Wilkinson Meyer and Kimberly Spencer-Lenahan Emily A. Seitz

Women’s Networks and Medicinal Environments. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Susan Jones and the Training of the First Women Physicians in the United States.

Panel D Diseases, Spaces and Services Chair: Markus Wahl


Mary Augusta Brazelton Storm Graham Susan Aspinall

Situating Immunology in Southwest China, 1937-1945. Biopolitics and Modernity: Smallpox Inoculations and the Prussian Sanitation College, 1755-1786. The Patient as an Individual: Prescribing Practice at the London Homeopathic Hospital, 1903-1915.

Panel E Geographical and Health Boundaries Chair: Sally Sheard


Kyle T. Evered Saara-Maija Kontturi Erika Dyck and Maureen Lux

Mapping Provinces and Populations: Socio-Medical Geography of Early Republican Turkey. Medical Spheres: Boundaries of Health Care Accessibility in Finland c. 1750-1850. Place and Race: Canadian Aboriginal Women and the Politics of Reproduction in the 1970s.

4.00-4.30pm Coffee Break

Keynes Atrium Foyer


Panel A Putting Shit in its Place: Excremental Politics in the Twentieth Century Chair: Emma Purce


Chris Pearson Neil Pemberton

“Teach Him the Gutter!”: Public Health and the Excremental Politics of Dog Mess in Paris c. 1977-2009. Unloved Others: Worms and the Multispecies Politics of Dog Dirt in Modern Britain

Panel B Places, Psychology and Pilots Chair: Paul Ketley

Keynes lecture Theatre 6

Natasha Feiner Up in the Air: Pilot Fatigue and the Workplace, 1954-1973.

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Lynsey Shaw Cobden The Mobilisation of Medicine: Industrial Psychology and the Selection of Royal Air Force Flying Personnel, 1939-1945.

Panel C Spaces and Seafaring Chair: Jack Davies


Hana Oh Tim Carter

A Naval Surgeon’s Journey Across the Pacific: Alexander Rattray and the Development of his Medical Thoughts. Port and Ocean: Place, Risk and Infectious Diseases in British Merchant Seafarers 1900-1960.

Panel D Places of Consumption Chair: Emily Bartlett


Sam Goodman Stephen Mawdsley

“View Halloo!”: Space, Place, and Alcohol Consumption in Colonial British India. Place, Patent Medicine, and Paralysis: A Case Study of Jamaica Ginger.

Panel E Sites of Human-Animal Interaction Chair: Karen Jones


Abigail Woods Julie Hipperson

Doctors in the Zoo: Connecting Human and Animal Health in British Zoological Gardens, c. 1860-1900. Small Spaces for Small Animals: Vets, Pets, and the Gendering of Veterinary Medicine in Britain, c. 1950-1980.

Panel F A Place for our Illness: Becoming a Patient in Asylums, Resorts, and Sanatoriums, 1880-1960. Chair: Chloe Trainor


Oliver Falk Ylva Söderfeldt

Beyond the “The Magic Mountain”: The First German Diabetes Asylum (1931-1960). “Hay hay!” Heligoland and the Emergence of the Allergic.

Panel G Religion and Medicine across Cultures. Chair: Fiona Clark


Rebecca Noble Elizabeth O’Brien

Missionary Madness in Bourbon Mexico. In Search of the Soul: The Religious Origins of the Caesarean Section Operation in the New World.

5.45-6.45pm KEYNOTE LECTURE Steve Study Decision Space: Diagnostics, Tests and the Growth of the Medical-Industrial Complex Chair: Carsten Timmermann


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6.45-7.45pm Wine Reception and Buffet Welcome: Professor Ulf Schmidt, Centre for Medicine, Ethics, and Medical Humanities

Sponsored by the Wellcome Trust and the Centre for Medicine, Ethics, and Medical Humanities.

Hut 8 Turing College

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Day Two: Friday 8th July 2016

7.45-9.30am Breakfast Dolce Vita (Keynes College)

9.00-10.30am Session 3

Panel A The Spaces of Forensic Medicine: A Comparative Perspective Chair: Nicholas Duvall


Willemijn Ruberg Katherine Watson Sandra Menenteau

Space and Dutch Forensic Medicine (1800-1930). Place, Space and Anglo-Welsh Forensic Practice (1800-1914). The Morgue Antechambers: When French Doctors Were Practicing Forensic Medicine Anywhere (19th Century France).

Panel B Places for Seeing the Body Chair: Mike Mantin


Beatriz Pichel Laura Piccand Gemma Almond

Medicine in the Photographic Studio. Photographing Growth: The Discipline of Anthropometric Photography. The History of Spectacles in its Place: A Material, Medical or Disability History?

Panel C Sites of Mental Illness Chair: Heather Perry


Michael Robinson Jennifer Farquharson Louise Hide

Forgotten Casualties of the Great War: The English and Irish Asylum during the First World War. Citizens and Soldiers: Marginalised in the Scottish Asylum, 1914-1934. Unlocking the Wards: How the “Open-Door” Policy Re-Shaped the Meaning of Space in English Psychiatric Hospitals, 1945-1960s.

Panel D Soldiers and Seamen: Therapeutic Hospital Spaces Chair: Katherine Foxhall

Keynes Seminar

Room 12

Erin Spinney

Inside the Ward: Everyday Experiences at the Intersection of Medicine and Domesticity in 18th-Century British Naval Hospitals.

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Kristin Hussey Julia Neville

Imperial Patients in the Global City: Patrick Manson, the Seamen’s Hospital Society and Networks of Clinical Material in Late Victorian London. “The Wounded Men… Spoke of the Exeter Hospitals as Paradise’: The Patients’ Experience of a Stay in a First-Line English War Hospital during the First World War.

Panel E Places for Therapies Chair: Clare Hickman


Hui-hua Chang Anu Rissanen Ayesha Nathoo

Regimen: An Innovative Therapy for the Elites in Classical Greece. OUTSIDE! Outdoor Therapies in Finnish Formal and Informal Mental Care 1880-1960s. Training to Relax in Postwar Britain.

Panel F Spaces and the Aetiology of Diseases Chair: Vanessa Heggie


Ryosuke Yokoe Fabrice Cahen William Leeming and Ana Barahona

“From the Laboratory to the Population Sample”: Aetiological Conceptions of Liver Disease and their Sites of Production. A Local Disease? Congenital Hip Dislocation in Sights of the French Population Genetics (1945-1970). Synthesis and Convergence and the Diffusion of Cytogenetics: A Comparative Study of Canada and Mexico.

Panel G Sites for Children: Good, Bad, and Diseased Chair: Helen Valier


Gabrielle Barr Fiachra Byrne

The British Child as a Charitable Figure. “The Nutters’ Borstal”: Psychotherapeutic and Disciplinary Space and Practice in Feltham Borstal, 1945-1973.

Panel H Places of Surveillance Chair: Anne Hanley


Agnes Arnold-Forster Claire L. Jones Akinobu Takabayashi

Cancer and Public Health in Nineteenth Century Britain. Penicillin, Prophylactics and Preventive Measures: The Bacteriologist and the Emergence of the Infection Control Committee in the British Hospital, 1947-1970. The “Quantified Self” in History: Clinical Thermometry in England between the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century.

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Panel I The Household as a Medical Space in Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century England Chair: Lisa Smith


Katherine Allen Sally Osborn Anne Stobart

Textual Spaces in Eighteenth-Century Domestic Medicine: The Evolving Material History of the Manuscript Recipe Collecting Tradition. The Social Life of Recipes: Networks of Medical Knowledge in the Eighteenth Century. “What Hearbs are Best to be Gathered in March and Aprill”: Linking Kitchen and Garden Spaces in Early Modern Household Healthcare.

Panel J Emma Brennan (Manchester University Press)

POSTGRADUATE SESSION Framing and Proposing a Book Based on Thesis Research: From Chunky to Smooth


Coffee Break Keynes Atrium Foyer

11.00-12.00pm When Content Matters? Social Media and Future Historians Ray Laurence (University of Kent) Chair: Ulf Schmidt


11.00-12.00pm POSTGRADUATE SESSION All Enquiries Wellcome: Early Career Research in the Medical Humanities Thomas Bray, Grants Adviser, Wellcome Trust


12.00-1.00pm Lunch



Panel A Places of Cure: Hospitals Chair: Markus Wahl


Pradipto Roy Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi Angharad Fletcher Erna Kurbegovic

Permeable Walls: The Many Worlds of Fever Hospital in Nineteenth Century Calcutta. “It all Seemed Welcoming to Mariam”: The Architecture of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) Hospitals in Iran. “Medical and Surgical Atrocities”: The Early History of Hong Kong’s Tung Wah Hospital, 1860-1900. “With our Serbian Allies”: Lady Paget’s Hospital in Serbia during the First World War.

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Panel B Roundtable: Locating Healthcare in the Home: The Experiences and Innovations of Nursing in the Domestic Sphere from the UK to New Zealand 1860 -1960. Chair: Rosemary Wall


Rima D. Apple Ciara Breathnach Linda Bryder Janet Greenlees

Panel C Roundtable: Putting Medical History in its Place: Perspectives on Contemporary Curricular Approaches to the History of Medicine. Chair: Lauren Kassell


Helen Valier Heather R. Perry Elizabeth Toon Carsten Timmerman

Panel D Spaces for Industrial Health Chair: Mike Mantin


Steve Thompson Christopher J. Sirrs Judith Rainhorn Keir Waddington

Medicine, Place and Industrialisation: Merthyr Tydfil and Swansea in Comparative Perspective. Beyond the Workplace: The Expansion of British Health and Safety Regulation, c. 1946-1990. Mine Shaft: Experimenting Occupational Health Policy at a Local Scale? France, 19th-20th Century. “Think Yellow and Smells Fearfully”: Placing Industrial Waste, River Pollution and Sanitary Reform in Late-Nineteenth Century Rural Wales.

Panel E Sites for Medical Education

Chair: Claire Jones


Bianca Oliveira Ferro, Raisa Maria Cunha Guimarães, Rodrigo Contrera Ramos Caroline Torres

The Health Education and Promotion Agency of São Paulo State (SPES): Woman’s Role in Spreading the Hygienistic Discourse.

Medical Education and the Multi Headed Hydra: Reimaging Post-War Medical Education within a Pedagogical

Context.

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Ulrik Bak Kirk Maria Avxentevskaya

Examining a Fractured Foucaultian Framework – The Copenhagen School Medical Service.

The Physician’s Stammbuch: Humanist Spaces of Medical Networking.

Panel F

Places for Therapy: Asylums Chair: Chris Millard


Egidio Priani Rosemary Golding Diana Jefferies Shilpi Rajpal

The Spaces in the Venetian Asylums: Overcrowding, Chronicity, and Therapeutic Aims, 1840-1904. “Fortnightly Winter Entertainments in the Dining Hall; during the Summer, in the Airing Grounds; and at All Other Times When Required”: Music and Moral Therapy in the Norfolk County Asylum. Seeking Asylum in Sydney After Childbirth from the Late Victorian to the Post WWII period. Insanity, Institutions and Individuals: The Lunatic Asylums in Colonial North India, c. 1850-1950s.

Panel G

Sites of Science and Medicine Chair: Vanessa Heggie


Manikarnika Dutta Elise Smith Karen Flint Elizabeth Neswald

Plague, Disease and Death: State of the White Sailors in the Indian Port Cities – Calcutta and Bombay (1860-1900). The End of Racial Science? Measuring Difference in the Torres Straits 1898-1899. Toils and Tensions of Empire: Indentured Employers and Indian Medical Officers in Natal, South Africa 1860-1916. Racial Metabolism Studies in the Field.

Panel H Diseases Out of Place Chair: Ulf Schmidt


Elma Brenner Mechthild Fend Patricia Marsh

Situating a “New” Disease: Responses to the French Disease and its Sufferers, c. 1490-c. 1540. Petrifying! A Polish Hair Disease in Paris. “Sleepy Sickness Spreads”: Encephalitis Lethargica in Belfast.

Panel I The Politics of Finance of Health Spaces: From the


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National to the Local Chair: Keir Waddington

Andy Holroyde Barry Doyle Rob Ellis

The Provision of Sheltered Employment for Disabled People in Post-War Britain. “The Shape of things to Come”: The Politic of Planning New Hospitals in Inter War England and France. London County Council, its Mental Health Policy and the Politic of International Consultation.

3.00-3.30pm Coffee break Keynes Atrium Foyer

3.30-5.00pm Session 5 Panel A

The Personal Politics of Diagnostic Testing in Late 20th Century Britain. Chair: Alex Mold


Jesse Olszynko-Gryn Elizabeth Toon Hannah Elizabeth Kershaw

“We Did Pregnancy Testing and it Was Very Important to Us in Those Days”: The Feminist Appropriation of a Biomedical Technology in 1970s Britain. All Women at Risk: Cervical Cancer Tests, Screening, and Identity in 1980s Britain. Representing the Test and its Subjects: Depictions of HIV-Antibody Testing in British Children’s Media, 1983-1997.

Panel B Gendered Spaces of Education and Health in the Twentieth Century. Chair: Emma Purce


Samiksha Sehrawat Kathleen Vongsathorn Jane Hand

Medical Education and the Feminization of Empire: The Lady Hardinge Medical College (India) in the Gender Order of a Colonial Medical Profession. “Information Should Radiate Out”: Maternity and Child Welfare Centres as Spaces of Education in Twentieth-Century Uganda. Advertising, Gender and the Place of Consumerism in Nutrition Health Education Programmes in Britain, 1950s-1980s.

Panel C The Place of Mental Health in Hospitals Chair: Jack Davies


Kate Grauvogel Chris Millard Clement Masakure

From Asylum to Apartment: Overcoming Stigma in the Architecture of a Swedish Mental Hospital. The Ambivalence of Hospital Space: Emotional Health and Child Abuse (1945-1985). Mental Patients in Non-Mental Institutions: Major W. J. Cumper’s Experiences at Salisbury General Hospital and Salisbury Prison Hospital, 27 October 1954- 5 December 1954.

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Panel D Sanatorium Spaces Chair: Linda Bryder


Anders Bank Lodahl Heini Hakosalo Yannis Stoyannidis

Skodsborg Badesanatorium – A Sanitarium on the Edge of Orthodox Medicine. The Walled-In Disease: The TB Sanatorium as a Lived Space in Finnish Patient Narratives (1910s-1960s). “Unusual Business”: Healing Tuberculars in Athens, 1900-1940.

Panel E Medieval Spaces for Health and Illness Chair: Frank Huisman


Winston Black Irina Metzler Katherine Harvey

The Medieval Confessional as a Medicalized Space. Scandal – Pollution – Exclusion: How the Medieval Church Reacted to Illness. The Place of the Prelate: Air, Environment and the Preservation of Health in Medieval England.

Panel F Landscapes and Environments Chair: Neil Pemberton


Sophie Greenway Clare Hickman Stephanie Eastoe

From “Dr Carrot” to “Concrete in Garden Making”: Domestic Design, Health and the Garden in Post-War Britain. Medical Teaching in its Place: The Botanic Garden as Classroom, 1768-1820. “An Expanse of Asphalte [sic] … Has Not the Cheerful Appearance of a Garden”: Landscape, Health and Care in the Long-Stay Asylum.

Panel G Mapping Places and Policy Chair: Keir Waddington


Sally Sheard Martin Gorsky Lukas Engelmann

Health for All by the Year 2000: Contested Territorialities in the Shaping of European Health Policy. World Health by Place: The Politics of International Health System Metrics, 1924-2000. The Spatial Politics of Bubonic Plague. Maps, Geographic Reasoning and Epidemiological Knowledge.

Panel H Spaces of Disease Chair: Alex Mold

Keynes Seminar room 17

John Manton Mohamed Qasim Toorani Stephen Wallace

National Health Planning in 1960s Africa: Framing the Developmental State as a Place of Health. The Eradication of Smallpox in Bahrain. The Location of Ebola: Finding the Right Tool for a Global Job.

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5.00-6.00pm SSHM AGM Keynes Lecture Theatre 1

Evening Free evening in Canterbury

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Day Three: Saturday 9th July 2016



Panel A Treating Madness in the Peripheries Chair: Jesper Vaczy Kragh


Jari Eilola Anssi Halmesvirta Tuomas Laine-Frigren

Religion, Madness and Community in 17th Century Finnish Parish. Consulting Madness in Finland, c. 1800-1914. Political Diagnoses? Treating Childhood Neuroses in Socialist Hungary in the Early 1960s.

Panel B Spaces of Discipline Chair: Vanessa Heggie


Nicholas Duvall Margaret L. Charleroy

“Disorder, Disillusion, and Disrepute”: Medicine and the Prison Medical Service, 1970-1990. Correctional Care: Medical Management of Prison Discipline and Health at Liverpool Borough Gaol.

Panel C Unruly Climates: Medicine, Environment, and Society in the U.S. South and West Chair: Stephen Kenny


Kathryn Olivarius Elaine LaFay Jacqueline D. Antonovich

Yellow Fever and “Immunocapital”: Becoming a Citizen of New Orleans, 1803-1853. “The Slandered Torrid Zone”: Medicine, Botany, and the Imperial Vision of an American Tropics Along the U.S. Gulf Coast, 1820-1840. Mapping a Healthy American West: Medical Women, Institution Building and Urban Development in Early-Colorado, 1870-1930.

Panel D Spaces for Listening and Reporting on Health Chair: Neil Pemberton


Gillian Murray Jane K. Seymour

Listening to Community Business Practitioners: Developing a New Perspective on Scotland’s Health and Welfare Matrix? 1980-1998.

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From the Medical Officer of Health Annual Reports for London to an Alternative History of Interwar Public Health.

Panel E Roundtable: The Place of the Digital History of Medicine Chair: Elaine Leong


Lisa Smith Justin Colson Erika Dyck Lauren Kassell Carsten Timmerman

Panel F ‘Therapeutic’ Spaces and Deviance

Chair: Anne Hanley

Keynes Lecture

Theatre 5

Catherine Cox and Hilary Marland Laura Sellers Andrea Bělehradová and Kateřina Lišková

“He Puts on Symptoms of Incoherence”: Prisoners, Mental Distress and “Feigning” Insanity in Nineteenth –Century English Prisons. Control and Disease: Medicine in the English Prison 1839-1855. “We Won’t Ban Castrating Pervs Despite What Europe Might Think!”: Czech Medical Sexology and the Practice of Therapeutic Castration.

Panel G Disease and Environments

Chair: Gareth Millward


Frederick Stephenson

Pavla Jirková

Sandra E. Guevara

Places of Crisis: Bubonic Plague in Hong Kong, 1894-1896.

Situating and Moving Medicine: Doctor Arbilleur and the Plague Lazaretto of Prague in

1679/1680.

Reconstructing Ancient Diseases: Cocoliztli in New Spain in 1545-1548.

Panel H Locating Gender Chair: Graeme Gooday

Keynes Lecture

Theatre 6

Jennie Brosnan Cynthia Paces

Salim Al-Gailani

“Third Rate Men”: Tall Poppy Syndrome, Medical Women and Their Place in Society. Nursing the Nation: Breastfeeding and National Politics in Bohemia at the Fin-de-Siècle.

“The Mothers of England Object to It’: The Notification of Pregnancy in Early Twentieth Century Britain.

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Workshop Dorothy Lehane Medicine and Poetry: A Writing Workshop

Keynes Seminar

Room 17

10.00-12.00pm Meeting (Closed) Pre-Editorial Meeting SSHM Keynes Seminar

Room 6

10.30-11.00am Coffee Break Keynes Atrium Foyer

11.00-12.30pm Session 7

Panel A Communicating Public Health in Post-War Britain: The Place of the Public. Chair: Elizabeth Toon


Daisy Payling Gareth Millward Alex Mold

“Everybody Welcomes a Sympathetic Listener to the Story of Their Ailments”: Health and the Government Social Survey in 1940s Britain. “She Might Want to be a Nurse or an Air Hostess”: Communicating with the Public About Smallpox Vaccination in Post-War Britain. “Everybody Likes a Drink. Nobody Likes a Drunk”: Alcohol, Health Education, and the Public in 1970s Britain.

Panel B From Otology to Audiology: The Medicalisation of Hearing Loss in its Disciplinary and Spatial Contexts. Chair: Julie Anderson

Keynes Seminar room 11

Graeme Gooday Coreen McGuire Sean McNally

Medicine and Mechanism: The Co-Evolution of Otology and the 19th-Century UK Hearing Aid Industry. Inside the Chamber of Silence: Phyllis M. T. Kerridge’s Standardisation of Audiometric Tests. “Triumph” Over Deafness: Acoumetric Testing and the Use of Hearing Aids to Augment Residual Hearing.

Panel C Places for Children Chair: Linda Bryder


Susan Webster Ida Milne Leonieke Vermeer

Examining the Silence about the Health of Children in State Care in Victoria Australia. Disease and Medical Care in the Irish School Place: The Patient Voice. The Diary as a Place of Coping with Disease and Death of Children (1780-1880).

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Panel D Collection Spaces and Sites of Display Chair: Claire Jones


Eva Åhrén Harriet Palfreyman Karen Jones

Going Places with Specimens: Mobility and the Shifting Geography of Anatomical Science in Early Nineteenth-Century Europe. Pathology in Place: Representing Disease and the Diseased Body in Nineteenth-Century Britain. The Rhinoceros and the Chatham Railway: Taxidermy and the Production of Animal Presence in the Great Indoors.

Panel E Places for Psychiatry Chair: Chris Millard


Sarah Phelan David Freis Anna Kathryn Schoefert

The Paradox of Military Psychiatry in the Second World War: From Personnel Selection to the Therapeutic Community. Diagnosing the Kaiser: Psychiatric Assessments of Wilhelm II and the Question of War Guilt in Post-War Germany, 1918-1927. After the Asylum? Building New Spaces for Psychiatric Research in Late 1960s Bern.

Panel F International Sites of Care

Chair: Jonathan Reinarz

Keynes Seminar

Room 14

Laurinda Abreu Geoffrey L. Hudson Leonard Smith

Prioritising the Locally-Trained Doctor: The Impact of Place in Portuguese Medicine, 1568-1826. Advocating for Full Citizenship: Disability, Health and Place in Canada, 1975-1985. Medical Care and Poor Relief in the Colonial Bahamas, 1810-1914.

Panel G Sites of Care: The Hospital

Chair: Keir Waddington

Keynes Seminar

Room 15

Lucy Barnhouse Stephen C. Kenny Edward Cheetham

Hospitals in the Late Medieval City: Examples from the Rhineland. “From the Reception of Diseased Negroes”? Place, Space, and Slave Hospital. Healthcare Communities: The Importance of Locality in Smaller Town and Village Hospitals in Derbyshire, 1900-1939.

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Panel H Tom Dark Manchester University Press

POSTGRADUATE SESSION Framing and Proposing a Book Based on Thesis Research: From Chunky to Smooth

Keynes Seminar

Room 16

Workshop Frances Stanfield Bodies and Art: A Creative Workshop

Keynes Seminar

Room 17

12.30-1.30pm KEYNOTE LECTURE: Graham Mooney Healing Spaces: Reflections on the Historical Geographies of Medical Practices. Chair: Frank Huisman


1.30-2.30pm Lunch


1.30-2.30pm Meeting EAHM Annual Meeting


2.30-4.30pm Meeting (closed) SSHM Editorial Board Keynes Seminar Room 11

2.30-5.30pm SSHM Changing Spaces Grand Afternoon Out Please gather at Hut 8 Turing College

Various Locations – please have your information sheet if you are going on a tour

7.30pm SSHM BBQ Conference Meal


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Day 4: Sunday 10th July



Panel A Sites of Childbirth Chair: Jesse Olszynko-Gryn


Marystella Ramirez-Guerra Tizian Zumthurm

Midwifery training in transition in Prussia, 1780s-1810s Adapting Medical Practices at the Maternity Ward of the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Lambaréné, Gabon, 1913-1965.

Panel B Spas and Therapeutic Spaces Chair: Clare Hickman


James Camp Melina Kostidi Emine Evered

The Questionable Elixir: Mineral Water and the Rise of the “Seventeenth Century” Spa Towns. The Urban Space and Public of Greek Spas (Mid 19th Century- Early 20th Century). The Therapeutic Landscapes of Early Republican Turkey.

Panel C Spaces for Suffering, Recovery, and Rehabilitation Chair: Geoffrey Hudson


Hannah Newton Walton O. Schalick Stephen Bance

“Prison to Liberty”: Recovering from Illness in Early Modern England. Patiens patiens: The Linguistic Space of the Long Suffering Patient. Polio in Ireland: Rehabilitation and Re-Integration in the Mid-Twentieth Century.

Panel D Print and Place in Histories of Early Modern Medicine Chair: Jennifer Evans


Sietske Fransen Elaine Leong Alexandra Bamji

Dissections in the Theatre and on Paper. “Placing” a History of Vernacular Medical Print in Early Modern England. Ephemeral Print and Public Health in Early Modern Europe.

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Panel E Sites of Culture and Cure Chair: Neil Pemberton


Katherine Foxhall Irina Ruvinsky

Monday Morning Migraine in the Pigeon House. Or, Glimpsing Illness in the Archive. The Culture Space of Illness: Death in the Age of Reason.

Panel F Domestic Spaces and Sites of Institutionalisation

Chair: Erica Dyck

Keynes Seminar

Room 16

Eli Anders Stuart Wildman Alistair Ritch

Between Hospital and Home: Cultivating Domesticity in Victorian Convalescent Institutions. The Workhouse at Night: Place of Safety or Danger to the Sick? “The Sick and Infirm … Are Our Charge”: The Medicalisation of English Provincial Urban Workhouses.

Panel G Sites for Surgery Chair: Helen Valier


Laura R. Neff Michael Brown Elena Berger

Triumphs Must Be Chiefly Due to Their “Skill”: Surgical Norms, Imagined Communities and the Consolation of Surgical Practices. The Operating Theatre as Emotional and Physical Space in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain. Places of Interest for a Surgeon: Ambroise Paré (1510-1590) and his Voyages.

10.30-11.00am Coffee Break Keynes Atrium Foyer

11.00-12.30pm Session 9

Panel A Spaces of Illness and Places of Practice: Environment and Health in the Middle Ages Chair: Alexandra Bamji


Joanna Phillips Sunny Harrison Iona McCleery

Travel Sickness: The Frontiers of Health for Crusaders in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries. “All Marshals Who Bleed Horses Must Transport the Blood Out of the City on Pain of Mandatory Fine”: Locating Equine Illness and Healthcare in the Later Middle Ages. Problematising Place, Disease and Diet in Early European Descriptions of West Africa.

Panel B Situating Disability in British Industrial Histories Chair: Steven Thompson


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David M. Turner Mike Mantin Alexandra Jones

Locating Disability in the British Industrial Revolution. Disability in the Miner’s Home, 1900-1948. Deformed Landscape, Disabled Industry: Disability in Coalfields Literature.

Panel C Suffering, Place and the Body of the Child from 1820-1939 Chair: Beatriz Pichel


Mary Clare Martin Helen Franklin Leticia Fernández-Fontecha Rumeu

Disease, Transnational Childhoods, and the “Bodies” of Indigenous and Missionary Children, 1820-70. Stopping the Rot: The Establishment of Municipal Dental Provision for Schoolchildren in Edwardian London. From Nervous Conditions to Nervous Children: Childhood and Somatic Pain in British Medical Discourse.

12.30-1.30pm Lunch Hut 8 Turning College

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