iCHSTM 2013 Programme • Version 5.3.6, 27 July 2013 • ONLINE (includes late changes)
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T172. The politics of public health
Fri 26 July, 14:00–17:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.204
T172-A. Public cultures of nineteenth-century medicine
Fri 26 July, 14:00–15:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.204
Chair: Iain Watts twitter | Princeton University, United States
Margaret DeLacy | Independent scholar, United States
The debate over the Manchester House of Recovery: contagion, controversy, and communication
Rebecca Whyte | Independent scholar, United Kingdom
Disinfection in the laboratory and the lavatory: theory and practice in local health disinfection policy in nineteenth-century England
Graham Mooney | Johns Hopkins University, United States
Mobilising technology: how municipal disinfection became ‘liberal’ in late-Victorian England
T172-B. Topics in eighteenth-century medicine
Fri 26 July, 16:00–17:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.204
Chair: John Christie | University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Meghan Roberts | Bowdoin College, United States
Providing ‘living proof’: inoculation in eighteenth-century France
Rebecca Bowd twitter | University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Extending medical knowledge: libraries, books and provincial medicine in the eighteenth century
Dayle DeLancey twitter | University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
WITHDRAWN: ‘Has had the smallpox’: reading debates about inoculation provision, safety, and efficacy in slave sale and runaway advertisements, 1730-1800
Henry Kreuzman | College of Wooster, United States
Alexander Gordon’s empirical arguments for the infectious nature of childbed fever
Location: University Place 4.204
Part of: University Place