An international and interdisciplinary workshop
Thackray Medical Museum, Leeds, UK
14-15 July 2014
As part of
the AHRC Research Network “Rethinking Patenting Cultures”, colleagues are
invited to attend this two-day workshop on the history of patenting and
ownership in the history of medicine and healthcare. This event will see
scholars from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds come together to examine
the role which intellectual property, broadly construed, has played in a
shifting medical landscape, from the development of new surgical instruments
and techniques in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through to the impact
of patenting practices on the distribution of modern pharmaceuticals.
The
symposium will take place at the Thackray Medical Museum in Leeds which houses
an internationally significant collection of historic medical objects and
texts. The full programme is appended below, and is also available through the
website: http://rethinkingpatentcultures.wordpress.com/about/workshop-2/programme/.
Registration
A very
limited number of places are available at the workshop for non-speakers and these
will be allocated on a first-come first-served basis. Please visit the project
website to register, specifying “Workshop 2”: http://rethinkingpatentcultures.wordpress.com/get-involved/.
A registration fee is payable to cover catering costs. Please address any
queries to the Network Administrator, Carl Warom: rethinkingpatentcultures@gmail.com.
We would be
grateful if you could circulate this email to other colleagues and students who
may be interested.
PROGRAMME
Day 1:
Monday 14th July
1 – 1.45pm
– Lunch
1.45 – 2pm
– Introduction and Outline
James Stark (University of Leeds)
2 – 3.30pm
– Session 1: Secrecy and Reward
‘Authority
and Ownership: The Growth and Wilting of Medicine Patenting in Georgian
England’
Alan Mackintosh (University of Leeds)
‘Public
Rewards or Patents? Parliament and Medical Innovation in the Early Nineteenth
Century’
Robert Burrell (University of Sheffield) and
Catherine Kelly (University of Western
Australia)
3.30 –
3.50pm – Coffee
3.50 –
5.20pm – Session 2: Surgery
‘“Recompense
the Sacrifice”: Awarding and Managing Credit in Nineteenth-Century Surgery’
Sally Frampton (Oxford University)
‘Patents,
Innovation, and the Transformation of Surgical Instruments in response to
Antisepsis and Asepsis, 1885-1925: The Artifact Evidence’
James Edmonson (Case Western Reserve
University)
6 – 7pm, Public
Panel Debate (Centenary Gallery, University of Leeds)
‘Performing
Surgery: Practice and Reconstruction’
Roger Kneebone (Imperial) and others
Day 2:
Tuesday 15th July
9.30 – 11am
– Session 3: Medical Technologies
‘Patenting
X-ray Machines in Japan, 1900-1945’
Pierre-Yves Donze (Kyoto University)
‘The Elixir
of Life Machine: Patents and the Overbeck Rejuvenator’
James Stark (University of Leeds)
11 –
11.20am – Coffee
11.20am –
12.50pm – Session 4: Contraceptives and Drugs
‘Marketing
Contraception and Control: Medical Advertising the Pill in the US and Western
Europe during the 1960s and 1970s’
Agata Ignaciuk (University of Granada)
‘Black
Market Drugs: Pharmaceutical Patenting, Price Monopolies, and the Bifurcation
of Therapeutic of Markets in the United States, 1887-1914’
Joseph Gabriel (Florida State University)
12.50 – 2pm
– Lunch
2 – 3.30pm
– Session 5: Medical Patenting and the Law
‘Revisiting
the Exclusion of Methods of Medical Treatment in the United Kingdom and Europe’
Eddy Ventose (University of the West Indies)
‘Pricing
Pharma: Constructing Markets through Patent and Competition Laws’
Shubha Ghosh (University of Wisconsin)
3.30 – 4pm
– Closing Roundtable Discussion
‘What can
we learn from the history of medical patenting?’
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