Johannes Mattes, Austrian Academy of Sciences & University of Oslo
Monday. 20 March 2023
(Meduni Vienna, Jugendstil-Hörsaal, Rector's Office Building (BT88), Spitalgasse 23)
17:00h
Opening Ceremony
Welcome by the Conference Organizers:
- Johannes Mattes (OeAW)
- Cécile Philippe (MedUni Vienna)
- Maria Rentetzi (FAU)
- Helmut Denk (President of the Commission for the History and Philosophy of Sciences of the OeAW & emeritus Professor of Anatomical Pathology, Medical University of Graz)
- Johannes Feichtinger (Director of the Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History, OeAW)
- Marcus Hacker (Head of the Division of Nuclear Medicine, MedUni Vienna)
- Rudolf Höfer (Nuclear Medicine Pioneer & emeritus Head of the University Clinic of Nuclear Medicine, MedUni Vienna)
18:00h
Welcome Reception in honor of the 100th Birthday of Professor Rudolf Höfer
Laudator: Michael Weissel (Professor of Internal Medicine, MedUni Vienna)
Buffet
19:00h
Guided Tour through the facilities of the Division of Nuclear Medicine, MedUni Vienna
Tuesday 21 March 2023
(OEAW, Johannessaal, Ignaz-Seipel-Platz 2, Austrian Academy of Sciences)
08:30h
Get together over coffee and tea
09:00h
Introductory Words by the Organizers
- Johannes Mattes (OeAW)
- Cécile Philippe (MedUni Vienna)
- Maria Rentetzi (FAU)
09:10h
Session One: Discipline-Building Technologies and Institutions
Chair: Gabriella Ivan (IAEA Archives)
Hsiu-yun Wang (National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan): Going Nuclear with Colonial Legacy: Dr. Kao Tien-Cheng and Radioactive Iodine in Taiwan, 1950s–1960s
Loukas Freris (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany): “A Peaceful Bomb”: radiotherapy and the emergence of a new professional identity in Greece (1959–1978)
Johannes Mattes (University of Oslo, Norway, OeAW) & Cécile Philippe (MedUni Vienna): Distinction matters: Therapeutic Isotopes, Imaging Technologies, and Discipline Building of Nuclear Medicine in Cold War Europe
Kapil Patil (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany): Building a “Mini Mayo Clinic”: Peaceful Atoms, Technical Assistance, and the Evolution of Radiation Medicine Center in India
11:30h
Lunch break
13:00h
Session Two: Political, Social, and Gendered Aspects of Knowledge and Technology Exchange
Chair: Wolfgang Wadsak (OGNMB)
Maria Rentetzi (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany): Diamonds, x-rays, and colonialism: How x-rays moved from the medical practice to the diamond mining industry and back
Sandra Klos (OeAW, Vienna): The role of women in early nuclear medicine. Some preliminary findings and discussion points
Mohamed Elsayed (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany): Ionizing Radiation in Medicine Under War: Trafficking Medical Radiological Equipment to Ukraine's War Zone
15:00h
Coffee break
15:30h
Session Three: Safety Issues, Radiation Protection, and the Pharma Industry (hybrid session)
Chair: Maria Rentetzi (FAU)
Kaori Iida (Graduate University for the Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI, Hayama, Japan (online)): Nuclear Medicine and the Bombs: How the new field was developed in Japan and in whose bodies
Hein Brookhuis (KU Leuven & SCK CEN, Belgium (online)): From Big Science to Big Pharma – the development of nuclear medicine at the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (1990–2020)
Mahdi Khelfaoui (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada (online)): Tracing the uses of isotopes in scientific and medical communities (1913–1965): A bibliometric approach
Aske Hennelund Nielsen (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany): From Radiology to a World-In-Crisis: Rolf Sievert and the re-orientation of the International Radiation Protection Commission in the Post-War Period
17:50h
Short break
18:00h
Concluding Discussion