Health History in Action
26-28 August 2015
Ross Priory
PROGRAMME
Day 1
Ross Priory
9.15 9.45
13.30 15.00
Registration
Workshops Rotation 1
9.45 10.00
Welcoming Address Douglas Brodie, Dean of the
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
15.00 15.30
Coffee
15.30 17.00
10.00 12.30
Workshops Rotation 2
Expert Presentations
17.00 17.15
Medicine Lauren Couch (Wellcome Trust) and Iain
McClure (NHS Lothian and University of Edinburgh)
Coffee
Media Vanessa
Heggie (University of Birmingham) and
Chris Holme (History Company)
17.15 19.00
Heritage Ross McFarlane (Wellcome Library) and
(Scottish Screen Archive)
Emily Munro
Keynote Alison Haggett Anybody out there?' The
pleasures and perils of engaging with audiences
outside academia.
Policy Thora
Hands (University of Strathclyde) and
Luke Gibbon (Foreign and Commonwealth Office)
Arts and Culture Will Sutcliffe (Novelist) and Iain
Bamforth (GP
and writer)
12.30 13.30
Lunch
19.00 21.00
Dinner
PROGRAMME
Day 2
Ross Priory
10.00 11.30
14.15 15.45
Panel 1 Children in Psychiatry Carnegie Room
Panel 5 Family Matters Carnegie Room
Panel 2 Diet and the Body McGougan Room
Panel 6 Medicine and Image McGougan Room
11.30 11.45
15.45 16.00
Tea & Coffee
Tea & Coffee
11.45 13.15
Panel 3 Colonial Care Carnegie Room
Panel 4 Institutional Practice McGougan Room
13.15 14.15
Lunch
16.00 17.30
Panel 7 Disease and Public Health Carnegie
Room
Panel 8 Psychological and Spiritual Care in the
Context of War McGougan Room
PROGRAMME
Day 3
Ross Priory
10.00-11.30
14.15 TBA
Panel 9 Developing Modern Medical Institutions
Carnegie Room
Optional Distillery Tour
Panel 10 Perspectives, Historiography and
Discourse McGougan Room
11.30 11.45
Tea & Coffee
11.45 13.15
Panel 11 Public and Professional Perceptions of
Mental Illness
Carnegie Room
Panel 12 Intoxicants: Highs and Health
McGougan Room
13.15 14.15
Lunch
Panels
Ross Priory
Panel 1 Children in Psychiatry Chair: Janet Greenlees
Axelle Champion, School within the asylum: A case study of the Bicetre Hospital in Paris under Dr Bourneville,
1879-1904
Erin Lux, Juvenile justice and child psychiatry in the UK, 1945-60
Jennifer Adlem, How dogs became our children: John Bowlby and the significance of his ethological turn
Panel 2 Diet and the Body Chair: Matthew Smith
Lisa Haushofer, Peptonized and peptogenic foods: Physiology and the eating and digesting body
Sarah Hartley, The international, regional, and colonial politics of nutrition in Fiji, 1945-1965
Iain Ferguson, Amphetamines as diet pills in the post-war United States
Panel 3 Colonial Care Chair: Emma Newlands
Pradipto Roy, Madness and psychiatry at the fringes of empire: A study in psychiatric institutions and practices in
Bengal Presidency and Assam Province of colonial India, 1858-1912
Angharad Fletcher, Caring for empire: Colonial nursing in Hong Kong and Cape Town 1880-1914
Andrew Glen, Britain, empire and opium: A historiographical paper on the opium cultivators of South Asia 18571906
Panel 4 Institutional Practice Chair: Jennifer Farquharson
Seaneen Larkin, Admitting the mad: Asylums in Ulster 1845-1914
Rachel Hewitt, A Design for Life: The Colony Experiment and the Institutional Care of People with Epilepsy 18901938
Stephen Bance, A lonely furrow in virgin soil: The evolution of aftercare institutions for polio in Ireland 1949-1968
Panel 5 Family Matters Chair: Erin Lux
Frederick Cooper, Husbands and wives at work: Post-war marriage, mental health, and family stability
Dimitra Vassiliadou, Voicing disorderly emotional states in 19th century family letters
Hannah Charnock, Something thats quite an annoyance but that Im quite obsessed about at the same time:
Contraceptive use in pre-marital sex, 1960-2000
Panel 6 Medicine and Image Chair: Rachel Hewitt
Antonio C Galang, The United States Leper Segregation Policy, 1906-1935
Emer Lucey, Ethereal beauty: The aestheticization of autism, 1943-1980
Panel 7 Disease and Public Health Chair: Thora Hands
David Bannister, The yellow fever bogey: Public health priorities in colonial West Africa
Kyuri Kim, In the name of national economy: The politics of tuberculosis management policy and discourse in South
Korea, 1960s-2000s
Panel 8 Psychological and Spiritual Care in the Context of War Chair: Chris Cavin
Simon Walker, Saving bodies & souls: The role of the British Army chaplain within the medical services during the
First World War
Jennifer Farquharson, Trauma and displacement: Into the asylum in Great War Scotland
Tamara Wijayasekara, Gulf War Syndrome: Psychological, physical, social dimensions of a disease
Panel 9 Developing Modern Medical Institutions Chair: Thora Hands
Yong-An Zhang & Mingfeng Guo, The Development of Western Medicine in China
Yuzhen Fu, Relationship between the WHO and China, 1970-1978
Panel 10 Perspectives, Historiography & Discourse Chair: Simon Walker
Melpomeni Kostidi, The medical discourse on Greek spas
Hlne Castelli, The historiographical construction of the physician Hippocrates as the father of medicine
Angela Muir, Perspectives on mortality: Death in an eighteenth century parish
Oonagh Hayes, Evidence based medicine and scientific discourse about the brain pacemaker
Panel 11 Public and Professional Perceptions of Mental Illness Chair: Jennifer Farquharson
David Freis, Psychiatric prophylaxis on the international stage: Robert Sommer and the movement for mental
hygiene in inter-war Germany
Ryan Ross, Rescued from the dumping ground of neurasthenia: Wilfred Trotter, concussion, and retrospective
diagnosis
Evgeniya Kryssova, Public perception of madness at the turn of the century: Representation, psychiatry, and
mental illness in British newspapers between the 1780s and 1950s
Panel 12 Intoxicants: Highs and Health Chair: Andrew Glen
Thora Hands, British women and alcohol: Challenging feminine norms of self-medicating for centuries?
Marita Martin-Orozco, Mexican campaigns against marijuana 1940s-1950s
Steve Feng, Smoking cessation: Pills and their social role
Health History in Action
Delegate List
Andrew
Glen
University of Strathclyde
[Link].100.2013@[Link]
Tamara
Wijayasekara
NHS
[Link]@[Link]
Angela
Muir
University of Exeter
ajm270@[Link]
Angharad
Fletcher
Kings College London
[Link]@[Link]
Axelle
Champion
University of Edinburgh
axec@[Link]
Caroline
Torres
Glasgow Caledonian University
[Link]@[Link]
David
Freis
European University Institute
[Link]@[Link]
David
Bannister
University of London
davidrbannister@[Link]
Dimitra
Vassiliadou
University of Crete
dvassiliadou@[Link]
Emer
Lucey
University of Wisconsin
lucey@[Link]
Erin J
Lux
University of Strathclyde
[Link]@[Link]
Evgeniya
Kryssova
Victoria University of Wellington
kryssoevge@[Link]
Hannah
Charnock
University of Exeter
hlc220@[Link]
Hlne
Castelli
University of Paris
helenecastelli@[Link]
Jennifer
Adlem
Queen Mary University of London
[Link]@[Link]
Kim
Kyuri
Lisa
Haushofer
Harvard University
haushofer@[Link]
Lori
Jones
University of Ottawa
ljone041@[Link]
Marita
Martin-Orozco
University of Strathclyde
[Link]-orozco@[Link]
Melpomeni
Kostidi
University of Thessaly
melinakostidi@[Link]
Oonagh
Hayes
Universitt Tbingen
[Link]@[Link]
Pradipto
Roy
NIMHANS
mailpradipto@[Link]
Ryan
Ross
Queen Mary University of London
[Link]@[Link]
Sarah
Hartley
University of York
sch511@[Link]
Stephen
Bance
University College Dublin
[Link]@[Link]
kyuriakim@[Link]
Thora
Hands
University of Strathclyde
[Link]@[Link]
Antonio
Galang
University of the Philippines
zharguz3000@[Link]
Fred
Cooper
University of Exeter
fgc201@[Link]
Janet
Greenlees
Glasgow Caledonian University
[Link]@[Link]
Jennifer
Farquharson
Glasgow Caledonian University
[Link]@[Link]
Matt
Smith
University of Strathclyde
[Link]@[Link]
Rachel
Hewitt
Glasgow Caledonian University
[Link]@[Link]
Seaneen
Larkin
Ulster University
LarkinS5@[Link]
Simon
Walker
University of Strathclyde
[Link].2013@[Link]
Yuzhen
Fu
Shanghai University
fyz199092@[Link]
