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

andrew.glen.100.2013@uni.strath.ac.uk

Tamara

Wijayasekara

NHS

tamara.wijayasekara@nhs.net

Angela

Muir

University of Exeter

ajm270@exeter.ac.uk

Angharad

Fletcher

Kings College London

angharad.fletcher@kcl.ac.uk

Axelle

Champion

University of Edinburgh

axec@msn.com

Caroline

Torres

Glasgow Caledonian University

Caroline.Torres@gcu.ac.uk

David

Freis

European University Institute

david.freis@eui.eu

David

Bannister

University of London

davidrbannister@gmail.com

Dimitra

Vassiliadou

University of Crete

dvassiliadou@gmail.com

Emer

Lucey

University of Wisconsin

lucey@wisc.edu

Erin J

Lux

University of Strathclyde

erin.lux@strath.ac.uk

Evgeniya

Kryssova

Victoria University of Wellington

kryssoevge@myvuw.ac.nz

Hannah

Charnock

University of Exeter

hlc220@exeter.ac.uk

Hlne

Castelli

University of Paris

helenecastelli@hotmail.fr

Jennifer

Adlem

Queen Mary University of London

j.l.adlem@qmul.ac.uk

Kim

Kyuri

Lisa

Haushofer

Harvard University

haushofer@fas.harvard.edu

Lori

Jones

University of Ottawa

ljone041@uottawa.ca

Marita

Martin-Orozco

University of Strathclyde

marita.martin-orozco@strath.ac.uk

Melpomeni

Kostidi

University of Thessaly

melinakostidi@hotmail.com

Oonagh

Hayes

Universitt Tbingen

oonagh.hayes@medizin.unituebingen.de

Pradipto

Roy

NIMHANS

mailpradipto@gmail.com

Ryan

Ross

Queen Mary University of London

ryan.ross@qmul.ac.uk

Sarah

Hartley

University of York

sch511@york.ac.uk

Stephen

Bance

University College Dublin

stephen.bance@ucdconnect.ie

kyuriakim@gmail.com

Thora

Hands

University of Strathclyde

thora.hands@strath.ac.uk

Antonio

Galang

University of the Philippines

zharguz3000@yahoo.com

Fred

Cooper

University of Exeter

fgc201@exeter.ac.uk

Janet

Greenlees

Glasgow Caledonian University

Janet.Greenlees@gcu.ac.uk

Jennifer

Farquharson

Glasgow Caledonian University

Jennifer.Farquharson@gcu.ac.uk

Matt

Smith

University of Strathclyde

m.smith@strath.ac.uk

Rachel

Hewitt

Glasgow Caledonian University

Rachel.hewitt@gcu.ac.uk

Seaneen

Larkin

Ulster University

LarkinS5@email.ulster.ac.uk

Simon

Walker

University of Strathclyde

s.walker.2013@uni.strath.ac.uk

Yuzhen

Fu

Shanghai University

fyz199092@163.com