A History of the Medical Book
Conference
This conference brings together a range of perspectives on medical texts that emphasize their lives as books, bringing together the disciplines of the history of medicine and of book history. Speakers will explore a wide variety of medical genres in diverse chronological contexts, posing questions about change and continuity in the nature of the medical book
LOCATION: Rothenberg Hall, Steven S. Koblik Education and Visitor Center
Friday, November 16, 2018
9:15 Registration & Coffee
9:45 Welcome: Steve Hindle (The Huntington)
Opening remarks: Mary Fissell (Johns Hopkins University)
10:00 Session 1 Becoming Canonical
Moderator Joel Klein (The Huntington)
Daniel Margócsy (Cambridge University)
“Vesalius Copied”
Carin Berkowitz (Chemical Heritage Foundation)
“Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical - A Textbook for All Classrooms?”
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Session 2 Books in Practice - Breakout Sessions
Options:
“Teaching with Rare Books”
“After Vesalius”
“Manuscripts to Print”
“Making an Early Modern Book”
Tour of Conservation Department
Self-Guided Scavenger Hunt on Book History
1:45 Break
2:00 Session 3 Books as Technologies
Moderator Daniel Lewis (The Huntington)
Carla Bittel (Loyola Marymount University)
“Boxes of Traits and Volumes of Knowledge: Phrenology Books as Medical Technologies”
Projit Mukharji (University of Pennsylvania)
“Written in Red: Red Ink, Print Culture and Therapeutic Mantras”
Wendy Kline (Purdue University)
“Mimeographed Medicine: Alternative Birth Newsletters in the 1970s”
Saturday, November 17, 2018
9:30 Registration & Coffee
10:00 Session 4 Readers & Reception
Moderator Jessica Rosenberg (University of Miami)
Jennifer Richards (Newcastle University)
“Speaking Cures”
Mary Fissell
“Under the Bed and in the Factory Canteen: 20th-Century Readers of Aristotle’s Masterpiece”
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Session 5 Becoming Print
Moderator Seth LeJacq (Duke University)
Lori Jones (University of Ottawa)
“The Changing Language of Plague Treatises”
Kathleen Crowther (University of Oklahoma)
“Gabriele Zerbi’s De generatione embrionis"
3:00 Break
3:15 Session 6 Knowledge in Motion
Moderator Mary Terrall (UCLA)
Harold Cook (Brown University)
“The Importance of Translation in English Medical Publishing in the 17th Century”
Nancy Tomes (Stony Brook)
“The Medical Reference Book: from Physician Mainstay to Consumer ‘Bible’”
A CONFERENCE AT THE HUNTINGTON
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino CA 91108
PHONE: (626) 405-3432 EMAIL: researchconference@huntington.org
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Funding provided by
Dr. Cindy and John Carson
Conference registration and optional lunches by reservation only.
Conference registration fee $25.00 (Students free)
Buffet lunch (October 13) $20.00
Buffet lunch (October 14) $20.00
Please visit huntington.org/medicalbook for ticket information.
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