Theories and Methods: Literature Science and Medicine

Event 2 programme

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Event 2

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Thursday 25th March 2010: Wellcome Library

Gibbs Building, 215 Euston Road

10.00 - 10.30

Welcome

10.30 - 11.15

Introduction to Wellcome Library’s Collections

Ross MacFarlane, Wellcome Library

11.15 - 11.30

Coffee

11.30 - 12.30

Reading Paintings, Prints and Drawings

William Schupbach, Wellcome Library

12.30 - 13.15 Utilising new technologies: Making Films and the History of Medicine in Motion Project Carole Reeves, Outreach Historian, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL

13.15 - 14.00

Lunch

14.00 - 15.00

Tour of Medicine Man Gallery

Dr Frances Larson, Honorary Research Fellow, University of Durham (and author of An Infinity of Things: How Sir Henry Wellcome Collected the World, OUP, 2009)

15.00-15.30 Tour of Wellcome Library Ross MacFarlane

15.30 - 15.45

Coffee

15.45 - 16.15

Online resources at the Wellcome Library

Jenn Phillips-Bacher, Wellcome Library

16.15 - 17.00 Archives, Manuscripts and Rare Books Dr Chris Hilton, Wellcome Library
17.30 - 18.30 Drinks Reception, Grant Museum, UCL, Gower Street  
19.30

Dinner, Ibis Hotel, Euston

 

Friday 26th March 2010: King’s College London

Council Room in the King’s Building of the Strand Campus

10:00 – 11:15

Welcome and Session 1: The fallacy of retrospective diagnosis and how a knowledge of medical history might aid literary interpretation and how it can mislead.

Dr Neil Vickers

11:15 - 11:30

Coffee

11:30 - 12:45

Session 2: The case history as genre

Professor Brian Hurwitz

12.45 - 13:45

Walk to Foundling Museum. Lunch in Museum Cafe.

13:45 - 16:00

Guided tour of Foundling Museum with further time to explore.

Jane Darcy

16.00 - 17.00 General discussion time, McRae Gallery, Royal College of Surgeons  
19.30 Dinner, Pizza Express, Euston Road  

Enquiries about the KCL day to Dr Jane Darcy, jane.darcy@kcl.ac.uk

Saturday 27th March 2010: Royal College of Surgeons

35-43 Lincoln's Inns Fields

10.00 - 11.15

Tour of Hunterian Museum

Simon Chaplin

11.15 - 11.30

Coffee

11.30 - 12.45

Reading group - Object narratives in medical and scientific literature

Sharon Ruston, Alannah Tompkins, Simon Chaplin

12.45 - 13.30

Lunch

13.30 - 14.30

Individual presentations - preparation time

 

14.30 - 15.30 Individual presentations  

15.30 - 15.45

Coffee

15.45 - 16.45

Individual presentations

 

16.45 - 17.00 Wrap up  

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