Medical objects have different functions and generate different meanings. In addition to their (original) clinical or scientific function, they represent biomedical knowledge to patients and medical practitioners, generate memories of illness, treatment and medical interventions, and trigger emotions ranging from horror to grief or nostalgia. Recent workshops such as ‘Curating the Medical Humanities’ (2018) and ‘Thinking Through Things: Object Encounters in the Medical Humanities’ (2020) have explored how working with (historical) medical objects may result in new understandings of health. For the purposes of academic education as well, object-based learning (or heritage-based learning) has been said to offer a methodology that makes debates on health more easily accessible for interdisciplinary student audiences. The aim of this colloquium is to highlight the potential of medical objects and historical collections in medical and science museums for research and education in health humanities. It brings together international speakers from different disciplines, who testify of how they use medical (museum) objects in their research and teaching. Its aim is to reach a varied audience of researchers in health humanities, curators of medical and science museums, and all those interested in medical heritage.
mei 19, 2021 · Posted in aankondigingen · Reacties uitgeschakeld voor Space and the Hospital: International Network for the History of Hospitals Conference 26-28 May 2021
Space, in both its physical and conceptual manifestations, has been a part of how hospitals were designed, built, used, and understood within the wider community. By focusing on space, this conference will explore this subject through the lens of its architectural, socio-cultural, medical, economic, charitable, ideological, and public conceptualisations. This conference is in partnership with “Hospitalis: Hospital Architecture in Portugal at the Dawn of Modernity” and “Royal Hospital of All Saints: city and public health” research projects.
For the Low Countries : on May 28, Session 9 | 9:00-10:30 Spaces of Knowledge and Healing Mats Dijkdrent (University of Cambridge), “Healing through Space: Plague and Mental Health Institutions in the Sixteenth-Century Low Countries”.
