Conference programme

Wednesday 6th of May 2015
Registration open from 13:00 (Floor 4, Humanisten)
Welcome 15:00-15:30 (Stora Hörsalen)
15:30-16:30 Keynote lecture: Julie Laskaris (Stora Hörsalen)
16:30-16:45 Short break
16:45-17:45 Keynote lecture: Lucinda McCray (Stora Hörsalen)
18:00 Open reception
Thursday 7th of May 2015
Time
Room
9:00-10:00
Stora Hörsalen
Room
Keynote lecture: Helen King
10:00-10:30
10:30-12:30
Coffee break
Room D411
Ia: Mental health
Room D404
Chair: Linnea Åshede
Chair: Ulrika Lagerlöf Nilsson
Cecilia Riving
Mental meetings. The relationship
between practitioner and patient
within the field of mental health
from the late eighteenth to the early
twentieth century
Anna-Stina
Ekedahl
Women’s reproduction in ancient
Rome
Imelda Helena Ek
”Unmistakable signs of
nymphomania”: Social class as
variable in diagnosing female
erotic behaviour in nineteenth
century Swedish psychiatry
ClaudeEmmanuelle
Centlivres
Challet
Caring for the nutritional health of
the non-breastfed Roman baby:
substitutes for maternal milk and
their limitations
Johanna Aurell
The view on sanity and normality in
Swedish psychiatry 1910-1960
Alessandro
Bencivenga &
Gianluca Di
Luigi
The cult of St. Roch in Castelli
(Abruzzo) and the earthenware
anatomical ex-votos
Jesper Vaczy Kragh
Somatic treatments and the history
of psychiatry
Johannes
Daun
Mortality and fertility in late 19thcentury Sweden
12:30-13:45
13:45-15:15
Ib: Fertility and maternity
Lunch break
Room D411
IIa: Science and conflict
Room D404
Chair: Helene Castenbrandt
IIb: Perceptions of the sick and the
healthy
Chair: Helene Whittaker
Louise Cilliers
The etiology of disease
Calloway
Scott
Poetics of health: constructing
Hygieai in the Greek polis
Anders Bank
Lodahl
Skodsborg Badesanatorium – on
the edge of orthodox medicine
Ma Ángeles
Alonso Alonso
Food, patient and healthcare in
Roman medicine
Motzi Eklöf
Conscientious objections against
smallpox vaccination in Sweden
1900-1940
15:15-15:45
15:45-17:15
Sandra
Karlsson
Physical deformities in Hellenistic art
Coffee break
Room D411
IIIa: Science and conflict 2
Room D404
Chair: Helene Castenbrandt
IIIb: Perceptions of the sick and
the healthy 2
Chair: Helene Whittaker
Anders Ottosson &
Nils Hansson
The Nobel prize, gym-machines,
androphobia and professional
deracination: Scientific elevation as
a mean to end gendered conflicts in
the labour market
Ianto Jocks
The elusive pharmacological patient:
healthcare and patient-practitioner
interaction in Scribonius Largus’
“Compositioned Medicamentorum”
Michaela
Malmberg
Massaging the female: Interactions
in discourse of femininity,
pathology and cure – intimate
massage as a professional
treatment for women in the Western
World during the 19th century
Malou Blank
Bäcklund
Health and care in the Neolithic,
examples from collective graves in
south western Sweden
Merle Wessel
Female Agency in Nordic Eugenic
Movements, 1890- 1939: The
Conflict of Female Promotion and
Victimization in Nordic Eugenics
Rosa Vilkama
& Ritva Kylli
Dental health care and healing in
Northern Finland, from the 15th to the
18th century
20:00
Conference dinner
Friday 8th of May 2015
Time
Room
9:00-10:00
Stora Hörsalen
Room
Keynote lecture: Charlotte Roberts
10:00-10:30
10:30-12:00
Coffee break
Room D304
IVa: Class, gender, ethnicity
Room D404
Chair: Maria Sjöberg
12:00-13:15
IVb: Religion and medicine
Chair: Anders Ottosson
Stephan Curtis
Medical care among the poor and
working class in Iserlohn County,
Prussia: 1850-1870
Isha Gamlath
Porphyry’s philosopher-priest, the
epitome of the perfection of mental
and physical health: Testimony of the
“De Abstinentia, Ad Marcella, Letter
to Anebo”
Helene
Castenbrandt
Sick from work – Experiences of
sickness among men and women in
Sweden 1892-1955
Kate Miriam
Loewenthal
Spirit possession in Judaism, and
some changes in diagnostic and
treatment
Anders Haglund
The Swedish colonial wonder –
Swedish colonialism and Sami
health in Northern Sweden 18601960
Elisabeth H.
Punzi & Per
Magnus
Johansson
The relationship between Judaism
and psychoanalysis
Lunch break
13:15-14:45
Room D304
Va: Class, gender, ethnicity 2
Room D404
Chair: Maria Sjöberg
Chair: Malou Blank Bäcklund
Michaela Senkova
Caring for slaves in ancient Greece
Spyros Retsas
An audience with Galen
Alexandra
Donnison
Renaissance commentaries on
Hippocrates’ Diseases of young
girls
Giorgio Zoia
16th century medical professors
Sasha Mullally
Beneficial diasporas: South Asian
physicians in rural and remote
Canadian towns, 1960-1975
Naftali
Loewenthal
Healing in Hasidism: the case of
Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, the
Lubavitcher Rebbe (1902-1994)
14:45-15:15
15:15-17:15
Coffee break
Room D304
VIa: Class, gender, ethnicity 3
Room D404
Chair: Maria Sjöberg
17:30-18:00
Vb: Medical biographies
VIb: Actors of medicine
Chair: Johannes Daun
Matilda Svensson
Chowdhury
The uncertainty of care: stories of
disability, medicine and polio
disease during the first half of the
20th century
Stina Järvholm
The experience of choosing the
healthy child: A historical
perspective of prenatal diagnosis
among couples with a known genetic
disease
Daniel Larsson
Spatial perspectives and
methodological thoughts on 18th
and 19th century diseases
Ulrika
Lagerlöf
Nilsson
Crossing professional boundaries?
Swedish midwives’ skills and practice
in the late 1800’s
Sara Hobe
Title TBA
Elisabeth
Engberg
A flaw in the welfare fabric: the
shortage of physicians in rural
Sweden 1890-1950
Maria Sjöberg
The little count and his dead body
Marie C.
Nelson
Climate and Health. Treating Nonpulmonary Tuberculosis in the
Swedish Context in the Early 20th
Century
Stora Hörsalen
Concluding remarks by Kristian Kristiansen