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