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Conference: A History of the Medical Book
Rothenberg Hall, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
San Marino, CA
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Conference: A History of the Medical Book
Friday, Nov. 16, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 17, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

This conference brings together a range of perspectives on medical texts that emphasize their lives as books, bringing together the disciplines of the history of medicine and of book history. Speakers will explore a wide variety of medical genres in diverse chronological contexts, posing questions about change and continuity in the nature of the medical book. Rothenberg Hall

Registration for this 2-day conference is $25, with an optional buffet lunch each day for $20.

Conference registration is $10 for current Huntington docents, and free for current Long-Term Fellows and students with a current Student I.D. Please bring your current I.D. to event day check-in. Students, please note school affiliation after your name when registering.

Conference Schedule

FRIDAY, NOV. 16

9:15 a.m. - Registration & Coffee

9:45 a.m. - Welcome: Steve Hindle (The Huntington)

Opening Remarks: Mary Fissell (Johns Hopkins University)

10 a.m. - Session 1: Becoming Canonical
Moderator: Joel Klein (The Huntington)

Daniel Margócsy (Cambridge University)
Vesalius Copied

Carin Berkowitz (Chemical Heritage Foundation)
Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical - A Textbook for All Classrooms?

12 p.m. - Lunch

1 p.m. - Session 2: Books in Practice - Breakout Sessions

Options:
Teaching with Rare Books
After Vesalius
Manuscripts to Print  
Making an Early Modern Book
Tour of Conservation Department
Self-Guided Scavenger Hunt on Book History

1:45 p.m. - Break

2 p.m. - Session 3: Books as Technologies
Moderator: Daniel Lewis (The Huntington)

Carla Bittel (Loyola Marymount University)
Boxes of Traits and Volumes of Knowledge: Phrenology Books as Medical Technologies

Projit Mukharji (University of Pennsylvania)
Written in Red: Red Ink, Print Culture and Therapeutic Mantras

Wendy Kline (Purdue University)
Mimeographed Medicine: Alternative Birth Newsletters in the 1970s


SATURDAY, NOV. 17

9:30 a.m. - Registration & Coffee

10 a.m. - Session 4: Readers & Reception
Moderator: Jessica Rosenberg (University of Miami)

Jennifer Richards (Newcastle University)
Speaking Cures

Mary Fissell
Under the Bed and in the Factory Canteen: 20th-Century Readers of Aristotles Masterpiece

12 p.m. - Lunch

1 p.m. - Session 5: Becoming Print
Moderator: Seth LeJacq (Duke University)

Lori Jones (University of Ottawa)
The Changing Language of Plague Treatises

Kathleen Crowther (University of Oklahoma)
Gabriele Zerbis De generatione embrionis"

3 p.m. - Break

3:15 p.m. - Session 6: Knowledge in Motion
Moderator: Mary Terrall (UCLA)

Harold Cook (Brown University)
The Importance of Translation in English Medical Publishing in the 17th Century

Nancy Tomes (Stony Brook)
The Medical Reference Book: from Physician Mainstay to Consumer Bible

Location

Rothenberg Hall, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens (View)
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
United States

Categories

None

Dog Friendly: No
Non-Smoking: Yes!
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes!

Contact

Owner: The Huntington
On BPT Since: Aug 19, 2013
 
Juan Gomez


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