"Progress in Medicine" Bristol, 13-15 April 2010
"Progress in Medicine"
Bristol, 13-15 April 2010
An interdisciplinary conference on the nature of progress in medicine,
combining perspectives from philosophy, history, medical science, and
clinical practice.
Conference homepage:
<http://www.bristol.ac.uk/philosophy/department/events/ progress_in_medicine/index.html>
Principal Speakers:
• Derek Bolton (KCL) - “Defining illness in psychiatry and in general
medicine”
• Matthew Broome (Warwick) - "Medicine as applied physiology,
psychiatry as applied neuroscience"
• Raffaella Campaner and Maria Carla Galavotti (Bologna) - "Evidence
and the assessment of causal relations in the health sciences"
• K. Codell Carter (Brigham Young University) - “What progress are we
now to expect in medicine?”
• Nancy Cartwright (LSE and UC San Diego) - "The long road from 'it
works somewhere' to 'it will work for us'”
• Sir Iain Chalmers (UK Cochrane Centre) and Ulrich Tröhler (Bern) -
“Medical historical textbooks and review articles fail to take account
of progress in historical research”
• Andrew Cunningham (Cambridge) - "The origins of the concept of
progress in medicine, ca. 16th and 17th centuries"
• Bill Fulford (Warwick) - "Neuroscience and values: from theory to
practice in mental health"
• Sander Greenland (UC Los Angeles) - "How much progress in medicine is
illusory?"
• Ilana Löwy (Inserm, CNRS, Paris-Sud 11) - Prenatal diagnosis: Does
the improvement of diagnostic techniques constitute progress?"
• Mark Parascandola (U.S. National Institutes of Health) - "Epistemic
risk: Empirical science and the fear of being wrong"
• John Pickstone (Manchester) - tba
• David Wootton (York) - "Progress in science and medicine---Real or
illusory?"
• Michael Worboys (Manchester) - "Chlamydia: A disease without a
history"
• John Worrall (LSE) - "Evidence in medicine: getting back to the Hill
top"
Full list of speakers and papers:
<http://www.bristol.ac.uk/philosophy/department/events/ progress_in_medicine/programme.html>
Registration now open:
progress_in_medicine/registration.html>
Email: <progress-in-medicine@bristol.ac.uk>
________________________________________
Organising committee: Professor Alexander Bird (University of
Bristol), Michael Bresalier (University of Bristol), Dr Alex Broadbent
(University of Cambridge), Dr Havi Carel (University of the West of
England), Dr Jeremy Howick (Oxford/UCL).
Michael Bresalier
Visiting Fellow/Teaching Associate
Department of Philosophy
University of Bristol
9 Woodland Road
Bristol BS8 1TB, United Kingdom
tel. +44(0)1179090828
email. plmcb@bris.ac.uk
Bristol, 13-15 April 2010
An interdisciplinary conference on the nature of progress in medicine,
combining perspectives from philosophy, history, medical science, and
clinical practice.
Conference homepage:
<http://www.bristol.ac.uk/philosophy/department/events/ progress_in_medicine/index.html>
Principal Speakers:
• Derek Bolton (KCL) - “Defining illness in psychiatry and in general
medicine”
• Matthew Broome (Warwick) - "Medicine as applied physiology,
psychiatry as applied neuroscience"
• Raffaella Campaner and Maria Carla Galavotti (Bologna) - "Evidence
and the assessment of causal relations in the health sciences"
• K. Codell Carter (Brigham Young University) - “What progress are we
now to expect in medicine?”
• Nancy Cartwright (LSE and UC San Diego) - "The long road from 'it
works somewhere' to 'it will work for us'”
• Sir Iain Chalmers (UK Cochrane Centre) and Ulrich Tröhler (Bern) -
“Medical historical textbooks and review articles fail to take account
of progress in historical research”
• Andrew Cunningham (Cambridge) - "The origins of the concept of
progress in medicine, ca. 16th and 17th centuries"
• Bill Fulford (Warwick) - "Neuroscience and values: from theory to
practice in mental health"
• Sander Greenland (UC Los Angeles) - "How much progress in medicine is
illusory?"
• Ilana Löwy (Inserm, CNRS, Paris-Sud 11) - Prenatal diagnosis: Does
the improvement of diagnostic techniques constitute progress?"
• Mark Parascandola (U.S. National Institutes of Health) - "Epistemic
risk: Empirical science and the fear of being wrong"
• John Pickstone (Manchester) - tba
• David Wootton (York) - "Progress in science and medicine---Real or
illusory?"
• Michael Worboys (Manchester) - "Chlamydia: A disease without a
history"
• John Worrall (LSE) - "Evidence in medicine: getting back to the Hill
top"
Full list of speakers and papers:
<http://www.bristol.ac.uk/philosophy/department/events/ progress_in_medicine/programme.html>
Registration now open:
progress_in_medicine/registration.html>
Email: <progress-in-medicine@bristol.ac.uk>
________________________________________
Organising committee: Professor Alexander Bird (University of
Bristol), Michael Bresalier (University of Bristol), Dr Alex Broadbent
(University of Cambridge), Dr Havi Carel (University of the West of
England), Dr Jeremy Howick (Oxford/UCL).
Michael Bresalier
Visiting Fellow/Teaching Associate
Department of Philosophy
University of Bristol
9 Woodland Road
Bristol BS8 1TB, United Kingdom
tel. +44(0)1179090828
email. plmcb@bris.ac.uk