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The Stimulated Body and the Arts: The Nervous System and Nervousness in the History of Aesthetics

International Interdisciplinary Conference
17-18 February 2011
Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease Durham University, UK
Venue: Hatfield College, Durham, UK
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 31 July 2010

This conference will discuss the history of the relationship between aesthetics and medical understandings of the body. Today's vogue for neurological accounts of artistic emotions has a long pedigree. Since G.S. Rousseau's pioneering work underlined the importance of models of the nervous system in eighteenth-century aesthetics, the examination of physiological explanations in aesthetics has become a highly productive field of interdisciplinary research. Drawing on this background, the conference aims to illuminate the influence that different medical models of physiology and the nervous system have had on theories of aesthetic experience. How have aesthetic concepts (for instance, imagination or genius) be grounded medically? What effect did the shift from animal spirits to modern neurophysiology have on aesthetics?

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The 8th Annual Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine, will be held the weekend of October 8-9, 2010, and hosted by the Department of History and program on the History of Science, Technology, Environment and Health at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. The seminar is organized and coordinated by graduate students across North America working in fields related to the history of medicine. Our mission is to foster a sense of community and provide a forum for sharing and critiquing graduate research by peers from a variety of institutions and backgrounds. For more information, including previous years’ programs, please visit * www.jointatlantic.org*.

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The Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Sciencehas opened registration for its 2010 Conference, and has made the final program available for download(PDF).

The 2010 Conference will take place on March 5-6 in Louisville, KY. For anyone interested in the history of medicine and science, and in particular in the history of medicine and science in the Southern U.S., the program looks rich and exciting.

I do have the privilege of presenting a paper, and it is a paper I have been working on for some time, on the history of yellow fever in Galveston, and the relationship between theories of disease causality and public health policy. I wrote a first draft of this paper as a graduate student, and since then have slowly and painfully been revising and improving it. Frankly, it is not quite there yet, and I look forward to the comments and suggestions from the audience and attendees at the Conference.

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Disability History Conference 2010

Disability History: looking forward to a better past?
June 25th - 27th, 2010

University of Central Lancashire
Preston, UK

Plenary Speakers:
Professor Catherine J Kudlick, University of California, Davis Professor Tom Shakespeare, University of Newcastle

Disability history has emerged in recent years as an increasingly popular sub-discipline of historical research, covering social, cultural, medical, practical, gendered, technological and linguistic aspects of the lives of those seen by society as having ‘disabled’ bodies and minds. The Disability History Group are pleased to announce their latest conference. ‘Disability History: looking forward to a better past?’ which promotes the DHG’s goal to advance research into the history of disability. It is hoped the conference will broaden the scope of disability history and deliver fresh and dynamic perspectives on the way disability has been used to legitimate and understand norms, social relations, inequality, and oppression. This includes historical research into individuals, groups and institutions, as well as representations/constructions and perspectives on disability.

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The New York Academy of Medicine's Section on the History of Medicine and Public Health, with the support of the New York Council for the Humanities, presents: With Coverage for All?: Health and the State in Twentieth Century America, a series of four public lectures on the contentious history of efforts to guarantee health care coverage to all Americans. Explaining this history takes scholars to the heart of American culture, exploring such long-standing (more...)

The deadline for the AAHM Call for Papers has been extended from Sept. 15 to Sept. 30.

The American Association for the History of Medicine invites submissions in any area of medical history for its 83rd annual meeting, to be held in Rochester, Minnesota, April 29 through May 2, 2010. The Association welcomes submissions on the history of health and healing; history of medical ideas, practices, and institutions; and histories of illness, disease, and public health. Submissions from all eras and regions of the world are welcome. In addition to single-paper proposals, the Program Committee accepts abstracts for sessions and for luncheon workshops. Please alert the Program Committee Chair if you are planning a session proposal. Individual papers for these submissions will be judged on their own merits.
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The SAHMS has extended its Call for Papers from September 30 to October 31st. The details:

The annual meeting of the Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science-SAHMS- will be March 5-6, 2010 in Louisville, KY. The SAHMS executive board has decided to extend the deadline for paper abstracts to October 31. Abstracts should be 200-300 words and should be accompanying with a one page CV. Please email all paper proposals to the chair of the SAHMS program committee, Mary Gibson at: meg2e@virginia.edu. I hope many of you can join us as we celebrate the history of medicine and science at this international meeting.

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As readers of MH Blog know, I enthusiastically support open-access journals. Given my unending passion for the history of medicine, I am particularly excited whenever a new issue of Medical Historyis released. Edited by Prof. Hal Cook and Prof. Anne Hardy of the Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine at University College - London, it is one of the finest HoM publications in the world. And it is available full-text for free!

So hurry along and review the TOCfor vol. 53, issue no. 9 (July 2009). I found Helen MacDonald's articleon procuring corpses in 19th c. England particularly interesting, but I count the history of pathological anatomy in the 19th c. as one of my central historical interests.

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3rd International Conference on
The History of Medicine in Southeast Asia (HOMSEA 2010)

To be held in Singapore

22-25 June 2010

to coincide with IAHA 2010 (International Association of Historians of Asia)

Organised by:

Department of History, STS Research Cluster & Asia Research Institute (ARI) National University of Singapore

With support from:

The National University of Singapore

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The Colloquium on the History of Psychiatry and Medicine offers an opportunity to clinicians, researchers, and historians interested in a historical perspective on their fields to discuss informally historical studies in progress. Below you will find an announcement of this year's unusually rich Colloquium (note meeting rooms for specific dates). Please join us.

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David G. Satin, M.D.

Department of Postgraduate and Continuing Education, McLean Hospital And Center for the History of Medicine, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine present

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