Pratiques économiques et connaissance médicale

Accounting for Health. Economic Practices and Medical Knowledge, 1500-2000

Conference

Convenors: Axel C. Hüntelmann, Oliver Falk, J. Andrew Mendelsohn, Volker Hess (Institute for the History of Medicine – Charité Berlin)

ERC Research Group PAPERTECH “Ways of Writing. How Physicians Know, 1500–1950”

3rd – 5th April 2017


Funded by
Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Forschung, Universität Bielefeld (Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, University Bielefeld)
in Co-operation with: Fritz Thyssen Foundation

Conference venue
Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, University Bielefeld

Monday, 3rd April 2017
14.00-14.30 Welcome by Marc Schalenberg, ZiF (Academic Assistant to the Board of Directors) & Organisational Aspects

14.30-15.30 Oliver Falk/Axel C. Hüntelmann (Berlin): Accounting for Health – Introduction
Commentary: Alexa Geisthövel

15.30-16.00 Coffee Break

Session I: Keeping the Book (Chair: Saskia Klerk)
16.00-17.00 Philip Alexander Rieder (Geneva): Accounting for Medical Practice in and around Geneva (1760–1820)

Commentary: Ruth Schilling (Bremen/Bremerhaven)

17.00-18.00 Oliver Falk (Berlin): Counting Cases. Elliott Joslins Diabetes Research, 1896–1960
Commentary: Hendrik Vollmer (Leicester)

Tuesday, 4th April 2017
Session II: Welfare (Chair: Axel Hüntelmann)

9.30-10.30 Christopher Sirrs (London): The Health of Nations: International Health Accounting in Historical Perspective, 1925–2011
Commentary: Heinrich Hartmann (Basel)

10.30-11.30 Andrew Mendelsohn (Berlin/London): Physicians, the Protectable Worker’s Body, the Minable Earth, and the Naturalization of Sustainable Organized Extractive Capitalism
Commentary: Staffan Müller-Wille (Exeter)

11.30-12.00 Coffee Break

12.00-13.00 Helene Castenbrandt (Copenhagen): Administrating Sickness: The Running of a Working Class Women’s Sickness Fund, 1898–1946
Commentary: Martin Lengwiler (Basel)

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.00 Sebastian Pranghofer (Hamburg): States of Healing in Early Modern Germany: Military Healthcare and the Management of Manpower
Commentary: Lars Behrisch (Utrecht/Berlin)

15.00-15.30 Coffee Break

Session III: Production (Chair: Marion Mücke)

15.30-16.30 Volker Hess (Berlin): The Industry of Clinical Trials and the Rise of Medico-Economic Accounting. The Case of Antidepressants, 1970–1990
Commentary: Jakob Tanner (Zürich)

16.30-17.30 Andrea Rusnock (Kingston): The Economics of Vaccine Production 1798-1830 (Skype)
Commentary: Staffan Müller-Wille (Exeter)
17.30-18.00 Coffee Break

Session IV: Household (Chair: Alexa Geisthövel)
18.00-19.00 Axel C. Hüntelmann (Berlin): Economies of the Hospital, 1790-1920
Commentary: Harro Maas (Lausanne)

Wednesday, 5th April 2017

Session IV: Household (continued) (Chair: Oliver Falk)

9.30-10.30 Barry Doyle (Huddersfield): Local, National, International: Contrasting Accounting Practices in Urban Hospitals of England and France, 1890-1950
Commentary: Anne Hardy (London)

10.30-11.30 Joris Vandendriessche (Leuven/Manchester): Reforming on Paper. Practices of Accounting in the Leuven Academic Hospitals, 1920-1960
Commentary: Martin Gorsky (London)

11.30-12.00 Coffee Break

12.00-13.00 Theodore Porter (Los Angeles): Measuring and Manipulating Outcomes: The Evidence-Based Asylum
Commentary: Johannes Kassar (Berlin)

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.00 Final discussion & General Remarks: David Cantor (Bethesda)


For further information and registration please contact:

Axel C. Hüntelmann
Charité – University Medicine Berlin
Institute for the History of Medicine
Email: axel-caesar.huentelmann@charite.de