Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Postgraduate Conference 2018
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With panels on:
- Early modern natural philosophy
- Modern science
- Psychology
- Public health and colonialism
- Reproduction and eugenics
The History of Science, Medicine, and Technology is an ever-expanding discipline. This two-day conference allows Oxford postgraduate students in the field to present their research, covering a broad chronological, geographic, and thematic scope. Panel topics range from early modern ideas to public health, with individual papers covering subjects as diverse as reproductive technology, honeybee diseases and twentieth-century scepticism about science - truly offering new perspectives, as questions fundamental to the history of science and medicine are explored and examined.
All welcome. Admission and lunch are free, but registration is essential. To register please contact belinda.clark@wuhmo.ox.ac.uk by 14:00 31 May.
Programme:
| Thursday, 7 June | |
| 09:45-10:00 | Registration |
| 10:00-10:10 | Opening Remarks: Rob Iliffe, Professor of the History of Science, Oxford |
| 10:10-11:20 | Session One - Early Modern Natural Philosophy |
| Natasha Bailey, "The strange force of fascination": Alexander Ross and natural philosophy | |
| Lucia Bucciarelli, Disseminating scientific knowledge: the role of discipleship in the early modern period | |
| Michelle Pfeffer, Heterodoxy and historical argument: the physician William Coward studies the soul | |
| Chair: Rob Iliffe | |
| 11:20-11:40 | Tea/Coffee |
| 11:40-12:50 | Session Two - Modern Science |
| Constance Hardesty, Who decides? Public opinion versus the Royal Society in the eighteenth-century lightning rod controversy | |
| Johann Gaebler, Calculus of the mind: George Boole and The Laws of Thought | |
| Patrick Lee, Stellar Atmospheres: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, historical receptions, and ascribing scientific priority | |
| Chair: Michelle Pfeffer | |
| 12:50-13:50 | Lunch |
| 13:50-15:00 | Session Three - Sexuality, Reproduction and Eugenics |
| Alicja Howard, The sex glands: paradigms of sexuality and gender in the quest for rejuvenation | |
| Nick Logan, Overcorrecting cruel science in post-war America | |
| Angela Yu, Frozen futures: "reproduction without sex" and the single girl | |
| Chair: John Shepherd | |
| 15:00-15:20 | Tea/Coffee |
| 15:20-16:30 | Session Four - Psychology and Criminality |
| John Shepherd, Tracing the criminal subject: theories of crime and the practice of prevention in Berkeley, California, c.1910-40 | |
| Alexandra Ackland-Snow, Surgical, chemical, psychological, behavioural: the concept of "restraint" in the medicalisation of paedophilia in the twentieth century | |
| Henry-James Meiring, Politics and psychoanalysis in Africa: the birth and death of institutional psychoanalysis in South Africa, 1929-50 | |
| Chair: Angela Yu | |
| 16:30-16:50 | Closing Remarks: Sloan Mahone, Associate Professor of the History of Medicine, Oxford |
| Friday, 8 June | |
| 09:50-10:00 | Opening Remarks: Erica Charters, Associate Professor of the History of Medicine and Director of the Oxford Centre for Global History, Oxford |
| 10:00-11:10 | Session Five - Health and Colonialism |
| Rhiannon Bertaud-Gandar, Sharing sanitary intelligence in the Red Sea, ca. 1865-1914 | |
| Ho Hee Cho, British-Commonwealth initiatives in international medical cooperation and the Second World War | |
| Frank Vitale IV, Counting Carlisle's casualties: multiple methods for measuring mortality at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, 1879-1918 | |
| Chair: Ethan Friederich | |
| 11:10-11:40 | Tea/Coffee |
| 11:40-12:30 | Session Six - Medicine and Disease Control |
| Ethan Friederich, Plantations, policy and public health: a history of malaria in Assam 1919-39 | |
| Josefine Lochen, The World Health Organization, leprosy and the saga of multidrug therapy | |
| Chair: Frank Vitale IV | |
| 12:30-12:45 | Closing Remarks: Mark Harrison, Professor of the History of Medicine and Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford |
