History of Clinical Iatrogenesis - Before and after Ivan / Manchester 19 may 06

WORKSHOP: History of Clinical Iatrogenesis - Before and after Ivan
> Illich
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> Friday, 19 May 2006
> Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM)
> Room 2.57, Simon Building Second Floor
> University of Manchester
> Oxford Road/Brunswick Street
> Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
> http://www.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/
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> About the conference:
>
> Precisely 30 years ago, the social critic Ivan Illich published his
> book Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health. Since the
> publication of Medical Nemesis, critics from medical sociology, policy
> and even inside medicine engaged with Illich's ideas of
> 'iatrogenesis'. In contrast, there has hardly been any debate in the
> history of medicine.
>
> This workshop will reassess the concept of iatrogenesis proposed by
> Illich in the 1970s. Rather than merely discussing the sociological,
> philosophical or psychological significance of Illich and his ideas,
> however, we have encouraged participants to historicise and
> contexualise the concept and terminology of ‘the iatrogenic’ by
> examining specific historical episodes in biomedicine in the latter
> half of the twentieth century, looking at, for example, chemotherapy,
> surgery, emerging infectious diseases, the pharmaceutical industry,
> and hospital management.
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> PROGRAMME
>
> 9.00-9.45 Registration and Coffee
>
> 9.45-10.00 Welcome (Dr Aya Homei, Centre for the History of Science,
> Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester, CHSTM)
>
> 10.00-11.00
> Professor Susan Lederer (Yale University)
> 'Bad blood: Race, risk, and wrongs in American blood transfusion in
> the 1950s'
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> 11.00-11.30 Coffee
>
> 11.30-12.00
> Professor Michael Worboys and Dr Aya Homei (CHSTM)
> 'Historicising iatrogenesis: Medical treatments and the rise of fungal
> infections, 1950s-1960s'
>
> 12.00-12.30
> Dr Robert Bud (Science Museum, London)
> 'Fear of "superbugs": An indicator of distrust'
>
> 12.30-13.00
> Dr Christine Hallett (University of Manchester, and chair of the UK
> Centre for the History of Nursing and Midwifery, UKCHNM)
> 'Nurses' germs in the 1990s: A study of fatalism in infection control'
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> 13.00-14.30 Lunch
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> 14.30-15.00
> Ms Rachel McAdams (Centre for the History of Medicine, University of
> Glasgow)
> 'David and Goliath: Maurice Pappworth and the dissolution of medical
> authority'
>
> 15.00-15.30
> Dr Emm Barnes (CHSTM)
> 'When is a side-effect not just a side-effect? Iatrogenesis and the
> 'late effects' of treatment for childhood cancer'
>
> 15.30-16.00 Coffee
>
> 16.00-16.30
> Professor Sir George Alberti (National Director for Emergency Access,
> Department of Health; Senior Research Fellow, Imperial College,
> London; Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Newcastle;
> President of the Royal College of Physicians, 1997-2002)
> 'Clinical iatrogenesis and medical error: A clinician's perspective'
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> 16.30-16.45 Closing comments (Professor Michael Worboys, CHSTM)
>
> For further details or to download a registration form, please visit
> the conference website
> http://www.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/events/conferences/iatrogenesis/
>
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> Aya Homei, Ph.D.
> Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM)
> University of Manchester
> Tel: +44-(0)161-275-5843
> http://www.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/