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CANCELED - Conference: New Histories of Medical Technology
EVENT CANCELED
Friday, Apr. 24, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
Saturday, Apr. 25, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
In this two-day conference, April 24-25, leading experts present new challenges for understanding the role of technology in the history of medicine, bringing new insights from object history, disability history, media history, environmental history, and colonial and postcolonial history into conversation with more classic approaches on the role of technology in diagnosis and management. 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, APR. 24
8:30 a.m. - Registration & Coffee
9:30 a.m. - Welcome: Steve Hindle (The Huntington)
Remarks: Jeremy Greene (Johns Hopkins University)
Jaipreet Virdi (University of Delaware)
9:45 a.m. - Session 1: Instruments
Moderator: Jeremy Greene (Johns Hopkins University)
Elaine Leong (University College London)
Surgical Anti-Devices
Shelley McKellar (Western University)
Cutting as Cure
11:15 a.m. - Break
11:30 a.m. - Material Histories: Breakout Session I
12:30 p.m. - Lunch
1:30 p.m. - Session 2: Prosthetic Histories
Moderator: Jaipreet Virdi (University of Delaware)
Caroline Lieffers (The King's University)
Colonialist Prosthetics
Coreen McGuire (University of Bristol)
Breathlessness Technologies
3 p.m. - Break
3:15 p.m. - Session 3: Colonial and Post-Colonial Encounters
Moderator: Andrew Lakoff (University of Southern California)
Projit Mukharji (University of Pennsylvania)
Stethoscope and Ayurveda
Tatiana Chudakova (Tufts University)
Pulse Machines and Post-Soviet Forms of Tibetan Medicine
SATURDAY, APR. 25
8:30 a.m. - Registration & Coffee
9:30 a.m. - Session 4: Everyday Technologies
Moderator: Kirsten Moore-Sheeley (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center)
Jaipreet Virdi (University of Delaware)
Fitting Hearing Aids
Deirdre Cooper Owens (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
The Speculum
11 a.m. - Break
11:15 a.m. - Session 5: Visualization
Moderator: Christopher M. Kelty (University of California, Los Angeles)
Joseph November (University of South Carolina)
Digital Visualizations and the CAT Scan
Wen Shen (University of California, San Francisco)
The Incidentaloma
12:45 p.m. - Lunch
1:45 p.m. - Material Histories: Breakout Session II
2:45 p.m. - Session 6: Computation
Moderator: Theodore Porter (University of California, Los Angeles)
Joanna Radin (Yale University)
The Database
Jeremy Greene (Johns Hopkins University)
The Electronic Patient
4:15 p.m. - Closing Remarks
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LocationRothenberg Hall, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (View)
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
United States
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| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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