An interdisciplinary enquiry into objects in medicine, featuring papers on medical technologies, texts, therapies and research objects, and the theoretical and disciplinary questions they raise.
SPEAKERS
- Dr Barry Murnane (Oxford University)
‘The Pharmacology of Medical Things’ - Dr Harriet Cooper (UEA)
‘Medical Objects, Medical Subjects: Some Reflections on Disciplinary Objectives and Attachments’ - Dr William Viney (Durham)
‘Is That a Twin Thing?’ - Dr Heather Tilley (Birkbeck)
‘Neurological Casenotes, 1860s-70s’ - Dr Fiona Johnstone (Birkbeck)
‘Medical Objects or Works of Art?: The Adamson Collection’ - Oisin Wall (Science Museum)
‘Cultural Optimism and Midcentury Modern Design of Medical Technology’ - Dr Sophie Jones (Leeds)
‘The Prescription’ - Dr Hallvard Haug (Birkbeck)
‘Dead Set on Staying Alive: Intensive Care Apparatus and Post-Mortem Preparation for Cryonics’ - Harriet Barratt Dorling (Sussex)
‘Stomach Pumps and Dressing Tables: Absent and Insistent Objects in the Life and Work of Virginia Woolf’ - Dr Lisa Mullen (Birkbeck)
‘Podcast: Bodies and Objects’: Featuring interviews with doctors and patients about their experiences of the material culture of medicine.
Venue
Keynes Library, Birkbeck School of Arts
43 Gordon Square
London
10am-6pm 13 July 2015. Lunch and refreshments provided.
Registration is free but essential.
**Travel bursaries are available for those wishing to attend who are based outside London. (Subject to availability, and if oversubscribed preference will be given to students/unwaged). To apply please contact [email protected] by 8 July 2016. **
Generously supported by the Wellcome Trust.