Symposium Histoire de la médecine

FOURTH WEST COAST SYMPOSIUM IN THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE University of California Berkeley (May 10-11, 2013) Frank W. Stahnisch (University of Calgary), Angelo Matteo Caglioti (University of California Berkeley), Kelsey Lucyk (University of Calgary) Location: University of California Berkeley 470 Stephens Hall Friday May 10, 2013 3:15 pm to 3:30 pm Welcome Address: Introduction: Prof. Frank W. Stahnisch (Calgary/Berkeley), Angelo Caglioti (Berkeley) and Kelsey Lucyk (Calgary) 3:30 pm to 5 pm First Panel: History of Psychiatry and Mental Health Chair: Prof. Peter Sahlins (Berkeley) Alysia Han (UCSF): “Treating the ‘Whole Child’: The Development of Child Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins, 1930-1943” Kevin Bass (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia): “DSM-V: A Brief History of Tradition and Critique” Ramsha Almas (Calgary): “The Role of Functional Neuroimaging and Genetic Techniques in the Evolving Definitions and Diagnostics of Asperger’s Syndrome and Autism (a Historical Analysis)” Discussion 5 pm to 5:30 pm Coffee Break 5:30 to 7 pm Chair: Frank W. Stahnisch Keynote Lecture: Prof. Dorothy Porter (University of California, San Francisco) “Creative Disability and the Shaking Palsy: Approaching a History of Parkinson’s Disease” Discussion 8 pm to 10:30 pm Evening Dinner at Free House, 2700 Bancroft Way, Berkeley (conf. participants – on own expenses) Saturday May 11th, 2013 9 am to 9:45 am Chair: Frank W. Stahnisch Featured Lecture: Prof. Peter Sahlins (Berkeley) “The Animal Question in the First Xenotransfusions in France, 1667-1668” Discussion 9:45 to 10:15 am Coffee Break 10:15 am to 11:45 am Second Panel: Health, Medicine and the State in Latin America in the 20th Century Chair: Dr. Chris F. Jones (Berkeley) Nicole Pacino (UC Santa Barbara): “Transforming ‘Dangerous Practices: Training Midwives for the Good of the Nation in Post-Revolutionary Bolivia” Hanni Jalil (UC Santa Barbara): “Agendas of Liberal Redemption, Modernization and Public Health in 1930s and 40s Colombia” Jethro Hernandez-Berrones (UC Santa Barbara): “The ‘Mania Medical Flora that Corrodes the Nation’: Homeopathic Medical Practice and its (Mis)Representations in Mexico, 1895-1943” Discussion 11:45 am to 1:30 pm Lunch at Le Regal, 2126 Center Street, Berkeley (conference participants – on own expenses) 1:30 to 2:30 pm Third Panel: History of Public Health Chair: Angelo Caglioti (Berkeley) Kelsey Lucyk (Calgary): “Population Mental Health and Resource-Based Communities: The Case of Kitimat, British Columbia, 1953-1982” Erna Kurbegoviæ (Calgary): “School Medical Inspections in Winnipeg, 1900-1912” 2:30 to 3 pm Coffee Break 3 to 4:30 pm Fourth Panel: History of Biopolitics Chair: Prof. Massimo Mazzotti (Berkeley) Angelo Caglioti (Berkeley): “Measuring ‘Civilization’ – Social Observation and Alfredo Niceforo’s Trajectory (1897-1960)” Emily Seitz (Pennsylvania State University): “Diseased Fertility: The Biopolitics of Birth Control Research” Thomas Bryant (Berlin): “Sterilization between Medical Indication and Social Engineering – Sexological Aspects of a German Debate in the Run-Up to National Socialism” 4:30 to 5 pm Final Group Discussion (Frank W. Stahnisch, Angelo Caglioti and Kelsey Lucyk) Contact : frank.stahnisch@berkeley.edu Visit the website at http://www.homhcp.ucalgary.ca/events