Court Medicine conference (21-22 JUne, 2012): final programme and registration
Dear colleagues,
please find below the final programme of the Court Medicine conference, to be held at the London School of Economics (Old Building, Graham Wallas Room) next Thursday & Friday, 21-22 June, 2012.
Research blog: http://courtmedicine.hypotheses.org/
Registration (free & compulsory): http://courtmedicine.hypotheses.org/conference-registration
Presentation
Court medical practitioners changed in numbers, occupations and functions during the Renaissance and early modern period (15c-18c) practitioners focused on different specialities within body-care, and took on different roles in the government of Europe’s states. Building on recent work that has concentrated on the history of body care at courts, this workshop will explores changes in court medical politics, practices and practitioners and the consequences they had for, firstly, medical thought, regulation and practice and, secondly, the activities, management and evolution of early modern states.
Programme
June 21 – The London School of Economics
(Graham Wallas Room)please find below the final programme of the Court Medicine conference, to be held at the London School of Economics (Old Building, Graham Wallas Room) next Thursday & Friday, 21-22 June, 2012.
Research blog: http://courtmedicine.hypotheses.org/
Registration (free & compulsory): http://courtmedicine.hypotheses.org/conference-registration
Presentation
Court medical practitioners changed in numbers, occupations and functions during the Renaissance and early modern period (15c-18c) practitioners focused on different specialities within body-care, and took on different roles in the government of Europe’s states. Building on recent work that has concentrated on the history of body care at courts, this workshop will explores changes in court medical politics, practices and practitioners and the consequences they had for, firstly, medical thought, regulation and practice and, secondly, the activities, management and evolution of early modern states.
Programme
13:00 Introduction Benoist Pierre & Christelle Rabier “Court Medicine in Early Modern Europe: Issues at Stake”
13:30-15:15 Court Medical Personnel in Early Modern Europe
- Tilmann Walter, “Court Medicine in the German Southwest (1400–1700): New Findings in the Archive of the County of Hohenlohe” (abstract)
- Michele Clouse, “ ‘Good Advice and Better Medicine’: The Role of Court Physicians in Shaping Early Modern Spanish Medical Practices and Professions” (abstract)
- Benoist Pierre “French Court Medical Practitioners in 17c France: versatility, innovation and health policies” (abstract)
15:15-15:45 Coffee break –
15:45-17:15 Medicine as a Political Project:
- Britta Kägler “Prestigious Practitioners: Development of Court Medicine and its Personnel at Catholic Courts – Bavarian Case Studies During 16th/17th Century” (abstract)
- Christelle Rabier, “Court Practitioners, Medical Institutions and Sanitary Reforms, France-Britain, 18c”
17:15-18:00: Poster session “Courtly Bodies, Health Care Politics” – presentation and final debate
June 22 – The London School of Economics (Graham Wallas Room)
9:00-10:45 Court Practitioners and the Making of Healthcare Politics (1)- Sabine Kalff, “Changing Airs and Waters – Court Physicians and Their Impact on Health Policy in Late 16th Century Italy” (abstract)
- Tim McHugh, “Negotiating Royal Medical Authority in Eighteenth-Century Brittany” (abstract)
- Lisa W. Smith, “Sir Hans Sloane, Patronage and Smallpox Inoculation” (abstract)
10:45-11:00 Coffee break – Poster session “Courtly Bodies, Healthcare Politics”
11:00-13:00 Court Practitioners and the Making of Healthcare Politics (2)
- Mary Gayne; “Entre les mains de ceux qu’il préposera: Establishing Courtly Governance of Eighteenth‐Century French Wigmakers” (abstract)
- Hans-Uwe Lammel, “Pills, Corpses, Cattle Plague and Beauty. Medical Enlightenment as Literary Strategy at the Court of Mecklenburg-Schwerin” (abstract)
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:15 Courts as Places of Innovation:
- Clare Griffin, “The Production and Dissemination of Medical Knowledge at the Russian Court, 1630s-1710s” (abstract)
- Samir Boumediene, “The Accreditation of new drugs at court and the early “public health” policies at the end of the 17th century: the case of Peruvian bark and Ipecacuanha” (abstract)
- Anne-Marie Moulin, “Court Doctors in the Ottoman Empire in the 18th century: sharing medical knowledge between East and West” (abstract) – uncertain
15:15-15:45 Coffee break – Poster session “Courtly Bodies, Healthcare Politics”
15:45-17:00 Roundtable “Courtly Patients, Healthcare Personnel, European Politics and the Shaping of Medicine, 15c-18c,” with the participation of Elena Bakaldina, Aurore Chery and Natalie Hawkes.
Posters:
Elena Bakaldina (University of St. Petersburg) “The medical practitioners in the household of the king of England Edward IV (1461-1483)”Aurore Chery (Université de Lyon-III) “Inventing a New Medical Royal Body: the cases of Louis XV and Louis XVI”
Natalie Hawkes (University of Newcastle): “The Premier Médecin’s Haven: Antoine Vallot and the Jardin du Roi”
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Christelle Rabier
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The London School of Economics and Political Science
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Department of Economic HIstory
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Research blogs: http://courtmedicine.hypotheses.org/