British Society for the History of Medicine, Belfast Meeting Programme

Stranmillis University College, Belfast 2-5 September 2009

 

Programme

 

 

Thursday 3 September (morning)

 

 

0930 – 1030                Session I (A): Irish Medical History

                                    Chair: Professor Greta Jones (University of Ulster)

 

0900 – 0910                Professor Greta Jones

 

Welcome & Introduction to CHOMI

 

0910 – 0930                Anne MacLellan

 

                                    Beyond the Crozier: the Irish National Anti-Turberculosis League                                                    Reconsidered

 

0930 – 0950                Philomena Gorey

 

                                    Education or Registration? The Royal College of Physicians of Ireland in

                                    Regulating Irish Midwives, 1902-1918                                                           

 

0950 – 1010                Susan Mullaney

 

                                    The Irish Apothecaries Act 1791: The First Nationwide Regulation of

                                    Apotecaries in the British Isles                                                          

 

1010 – 1030                Dr Tom Feeney

 

                                    Cr Conn Ward and the Development of Mental Health Services in the

                                    British Isles                

 

1030 – 1050                Tea Break

 

1050 – 1230                Session I (B): Irish Medical History

                                    Chair: Professor RSJ Clarke (Ulster Society for the History of Medicine)

 

1050 – 1110                Professor O Conor Ward

 

                                    The Decline of Rheumatic Fever: Reputations Made and Lost

 

1110 – 1130                Dr Lorraine Dennis

 

                                    Partition and its Impact on Irish Medical History

 

1130 – 1215                Keynote Lecture by Professor Thomas Basket

 

Frank Pantridge and the Origins of Pre-hospital Coronary Care

 

1215 – 1230                General Questions and discussion

 

1230 – 1400                Lunch


Thursday 3 September (afternoon)

 

 

1400 – 1600                Session II: Pharmacy and Medical Education

                                    Chair: Dr Fiona Subotsky

 

1400 – 1420                Dr Stuart Anderson

 

                                    Movement of Medicines between India and Britain 1857 – 1947      

 

1420 – 1440                Dr Peter Homan

 

                                    100 Years of Secret Remedies                                                         

 

1440 – 1500                Dr Marjorie Allison

 

                                    Voices from the Past: Creating a Micromuseum for Medical Undergraduates

                       

1500 – 1520                Laura Jayne Hughes (Medical Student)

 

                                    The History of Contraception                        

 

1520 – 1540                Dr Susan Kelly

 

                                    Trials and Tribulations. Sanocrysin and Streptomycin: Drug Therapy for                                        Tuberculosis  

 

1540 – 1600                Tea Break

 

1600 – 1800                Session III: Medical Biography

                                    Chair: Dr John Blair (Scottish Society for the History of Medicine)

 

1600 – 1620                Dr John Ward

 

                                    Shared Genius - Samuel Johnston & William Osler            

 

1620 – 1640                Dr Mary Muldowney

 

                                    The Desired Modification of Thought and Behaviour:                       

                                    A Eugenicist’s Journey from Belfast to North Carolina

 

1640 – 1700                Dr David Wright

 

                                    James Y Simpson and Ireland                                                          

 

1700 – 1720                Dr Edward Cockayne

 

                                    Suffolk Medical Biographies                                                  

 

1720 – 1740                Heather Sheard

 

                                    A Kaleidoscopic Existence – Dr Vera Scantlebury              

                                    Australian Woman War Surgeon in London 1917 – 1919

 

1740 – 1800                General Questions & Discussion

Friday 4 September (morning)

 

 

0900 – 1100                Session IV (A): Free Standing Papers

                                    Chair: Dr Sue Weir (Incoming President of the BSHM)

 

0900 – 0920                Dr Adrian Thomas

 

                                    Digital Skiagraphy: The Digitisation of the British Journal                                                                 Of Radiology

 

0920 – 0940                Eleni Thalassinou

 

                                    From the Italian ‘Provveditore Alla Sanita’ to the British                                                                    ‘General Resident of Health’: The Experience of Plague

                                    Prevention in Ionian Islands 1815 – 1864

 

0940 – 1000                Dr Tina Matthews

 

                                    Cells, Cytology, and Cytodiagnosis  

 

1000 – 1020                Larisa Urnysheva

 

                                    Ancient World Pandemics

 

1020 – 1030                General Questions & Discussion

 

1030 – 1100                Tea Break

 

1100 - 1230                 Session IV (B): Free Standing Papers

                                    Chair: Dr David Wright (Scottish Society for the History of Medicine)

 

1100 – 1120                Dr Ruth Reed

 

                                    The Causation of ‘Childhood Insanity’ – Views of the Medical          

                                    Profession in 19th Century Britain                 

 

1120 – 1140                Dr Mamoun Mobayed

 

                                    A Psychiatric Manuscript from the 9th - 10th Century                       

                                    (3rd – 4th Islamic Century)

 

1140 – 1200                Kerry Maxwell (Medical Student)

 

                                    Culture and the Corporal: A History of Anatomy from the                

                                    Renaissance to the Present Day

 

1200 – 1230                Dr Stanley Hawkins (Ulster Society of the History of Medicine)

 

                                    Sir Hans Sloane 1660 – 1753            

 

1230                            Lunch                        

           


Saturday 5 September (morning)

 

 

0900 – 1230                Session V (A): Irish Medical History

                                    Chair: To be confirmed

 

0900 – 0920                Dr Peter Martin

 

                                    Devolving Discrimination? The Mater Infirmorum Hospital and                                                        The NHS 1948 – 1972

 

0920 – 0940                Robert Whan

 

                                    Presbyterians and Medical Practice in Late Stuart and Early                                                           Hanoverian Ulster

 

0940 – 1000                Maire Anne Sheehan

 

                                    ‘The Irish are better managed in sickness than the Italians who have a

                                    physician in every village’ – The Fennell’s and O’Meara’s of Ormond and

                                    the state of medicine in Early Modern Ireland

                                   

1000 – 1020                Margaret O’Hogartaigh

 

                                    The Church of Ireland and Female Doctors in the Nineteenth                                                          Century

 

1020 – 1030                General Questions & Discussion

 

1030 – 1100                Tea Break

 

1100 – 1215                Session V (B): Irish Medical History

                                    Chair: To be confirmed

           

1100 – 1120                David Sawbridge (Medical Student)

 

                                    Lazy, Slothful & Indolent: Medical & Social Perceptions of Obesity to the   

                                    18th Century: A Thematic Approach

 

1120 – 1140                Dr Fiona Subotsky

 

                                    Dracula’s Asylum and Sir William Thornley Stoker              

 

1140 – 1200                Connor Kelly (Medical Student)

 

                                    The History of the NHS

 

1200 – 1210                General Questions & Discussion

 

1210                            BSHM AGM and Closing Address