Locating Medical Television: The Televisual Spaces of Medicine and Health in the 20th Century
An International Conference organised by ERC BodyCapital & the Science Museum Dana Research Centre
18-20 MARCH 2020
Science Museum Dana Research Centre
165 Queen's Gate, London, UK
Medical television programmes, across their history, have had specific relationships to places and
spaces: On the one level, they have represented medical and health places: consulting rooms, hospitals, the home, community spaces, public health infrastructures and the rest. As television-producers have represented these places, there has been an interaction with the developing capabilities of television technologies and grammars. Moreover, producers have borrowed their imaginaries of medical and health places from other media (film, photographs, museum displays etc.) and integrated, adjusted and reformulated them into their work.
But medical television has also worked spatially in the political sense of being broadcast internationally, at the national level, and locally, interacting with differing regimes and polities. It
may include regional and local broadcast as well as straddling public-private divides, including pay
television, advertisement and audience measurement.
At both levels, medical television has served to represent familiar and unfamiliar locations and
medical modes back to patients and medical or health practitioners.
This third conference on medical television in the framework of the ERC funded BodyCapital
project1 and in a joint venture with the Science Museum London intends to locate medical
television more precisely – it intends to engage (medical) TV history with recent questions
concerning the relevance of space within and beyond national borders. By comparative
approaches, or under consideration of (sometimes contradictory) local, national and global
developments, the conference intends to address the following themes:
• Locating medical television within global, national or local markets, politics and polities.
• Locating medical television as a means of new globally influenced medical communication
in the public sphere from publicizing medical breakthroughs and frontier research to
disseminating public health messages
• How television has represented medical location, and how that has depended on available
technology and technique.
• Locating medical television within health communication and mediation including fairs,
museums and collection displays.
• Comparisons with and transitions to other medical media, including exhibitions and
displays, and film.
Papers and discussion will focus on national, regional or even local frameworks and aims to
consider the history of health-related (audio-) visuals from entangled comparative
perspectives or as a history of transfers.
1 Following Broadcasting health and disease organised with Wellcome Collection in 2017 and Tele(visualing) Health organised with London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 2018.
Wednesday 18 March 2020
13:00-14:00 Registration (with tea/coffee)
14:00-15:00 Tour of the Science Museum's Medicine Galleries
OPENING
15:00-16:00 Christian Bonah (Université de Strasbourg), Anja Laukötter (Université de
Strasbourg/MPIHD-Berlin) and Tim Boon (Science Museum): Introduction
SESSION 1. MEDICAL TELEVISION: EXPLORATIONS BEYOND THE SCREEN
16:00-16:45 David Cantor (Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social (IDES), Buenos Aires):
Pollution and Purification: Media and the Metaphors of Cancer and the Gangster, 1930-1970
16:45-17:15 TEA/COFFEE BREAK
SESSION 2. LOCATING THEMES OF MEDICAL TELEVISION
17:15-17:45 Lukas Herde (PhD candidate, Université de Strasbourg): “There will be more about
older lovers…” Television and the promotion of health and sexual wellbeing in later life
17:45-18:15 Amélie Kratz (PhD candidate, Université de Strasbourg): When children come into the
kitchen. Children’s cooking shows in the 1950’s and the televised kitchen
18:15-18:45 Stephen Gene Morris (PhD candidate, University of Kent): Televisual accounts of
mindfulness: Locating meditation as therapy
19:00 EVENING RECEPTION AND BOOK LAUNCH, Dana Centre Research Centre Foyer
Thursday 19 March 2020
KEYNOTE LECTURE
10:00-11:00 Jérôme Bourdon (Tel Aviv University): Liveness and the theatre of emotions: the
televised body in media history
SESSION 3. BODIES, MEDICAL SPACES AND TELEVISION TECHNIQUES
11:15-12:00 Karen Lury (University of Glasgow): Locating ‘The Human Body’ on the BBC: inside and out
12:00-12:45 Laura Niebling (Regensburg University): The camera in the operating room: Early
medical television as a telemedicine device in the United States, 1920s-1950s
12:45-13:30 LUNCH BREAK
SESSION 4. HEALTH COMMUNICATION AND ITS MEDIATION
13:30-14:15 Tim Snelson (University of East Anglia): Shock Treatments: televising electroconvulsive
therapy (ECT) during the long-1960s
14:15-15:00 Hannah Selby (University of Brighton): Locating the treatment of mental health on
British Public Service television
15:00-15:45 Sandra Schnädelbach (Université de Strasbourg/MPIHD-Berlin): (Un)Healthy Tunes:
Evaluations of Body, Mind and Music in Socialist Television
15:45-16:15 TEA/COFFEE BREAK
SESSION 5. TELEVISION BETWEEN LOCAL AND NATIONAL POLITICAL FRAMINGS
16:15-17:00 Patricia Holland (Independent researcher): The politics of medical television across
the 1980s
17:00-17:45 Jean-Philippe Heurtin (Université de Strasbourg): Television staging and reception of
medical scenes in the French telethon
17:45-18:30 Christian Bonah & Joël Danet (Université de Strasbourg): On the road again. Car
travel, the televisual narrative of medical practices in rural regions
19:00 FILM SCREENING, Dana Centre Library and Research Centre
Friday 20 March 2020
KEYNOTE LECTURE
10:00-11:00 John Ellis (Royal Holloway, University of London): What Television Could and Could
Not Achieve: Lessons from the Hands-on History of Television Technologies
SESSION 6. MEDICINE AT THE FRONTIER OF TELE-COMMUNICATION
11:15-12:00 David Freis (University of Münster): Televising the Future: The 1970 Houston–Davos
TV Broadcast and the Future of Medicine in the Space Age
12:00-12:45 Sheryl Hamilton (Carlton University): When the medium really is the message: CDCTV,
health promotion and the hybrid televisual
12:45-13:30 LUNCH BREAK
CLOSING
13:30-14:00 Virginia Berridge (LSHTM, London): Commentary
Attendance is open, but registration is necessary.
To register or for further information: tkoenig@unistra.fr / bodycapital.unistra.fr
The healthy self as body capital: individuals, market-based societies and body politics in visual twentieth century Europe (BodyCapital) project is hosted by the Université de Strasbourg and funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Advanced Grant agreement No 694817).
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