The School of Arts and HumanitiesThis workshop is Supported by the Wellcome Trust; sponsored by the Centre for Health, Medicine and Society: Past and Present at Oxford Brookes University
Taking place:
Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, Gipsy Lane Campus, Buckley Building, Room BG10 (where to find us)
4 December 2009 - 10:00 – 17:15
The workshop is designed to facilitate intellectual exchange and debate between academics working on the history of forensic medicine, by bringing together scholars who study the subject in a variety of national contexts and across a broad period of time. It will engage with two central themes: the character and role of forensic medicine in Europe since the medieval period; and the relationship between medicine, the law and wider society as illuminated by the notion of 'expertise' (a modern and highly contentious concept which does not map directly on to the pre-modern context).
The aim is to identify fruitful areas of scholarship for future research, by considering how work ongoing in different countries and stimulated by different research agendas and traditions might be brought together into a collaborative network. The meeting is thus intended to serve as a foundation for a funding application to create an international and interdisciplinary research network. It is therefore organized in two parts: five speakers will be followed by a 2-hour round-table discussion which will appraise the state of the subject and outline the rationale for the planned grant application.
Speakers:
Dr José Ramón Bertomeu-Sánchez (University of Valencia): Toxicology in Nineteenth-Century Spain: Appropriating the Marsh Test for Arsenic
Dr Ian Burney (University of Manchester): Bruised Witness: Bernard Spilsbury and the Performance of Twentieth-Century Forensic Expertise
Professor Holger Maehle (Durham University): Doctors in Court and Professional Ethics: Two Scandals from Imperial Germany
Professor Alessandro Pastore (Universit’ degli Studi di Verona): Toxicological Experiments on Animals in Early Modern Italy
Dr Christelle Rabier (CNRS-ENS, Paris): ‘No intrinsic value’: The Testing of Surgeons’ Salaries before the Paris and London Civil Courts
Roundtable Discussion: Towards an International, Interdisciplinary Network for the History of Legal Medicine and Expertise
Contact:
Dr K.D. Watson, Department of History, Tonge Building, Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane, Oxford, OX3 0BP, UK (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address))
