Feb 6th, 2014
9:30 WELCOME
Chair Sean Dyde
10:00 Cathy McClive
Melle Baudoin’s Letter on the ‘Art of Childbirth’: an Unpublished Midwifery Treatise from 1671
10:45 Lucia Aschauer
The Rhetorics of Pregnancy and Birth. Obstetrical Case Studies in Eighteenth Century France
11:30 Mauricio Menchero
The Circulation and Uses of Knowledge (and Ignorance), through Medical Books in New Spain (18th Century)
12:15 Discussion
12:30 LUNCH
Chair Irmela Krüger-Fürhoff
13:30 Wayne Wild
The Rhetorical Origins of a Modern Medical Ethics in Enlightenment Scotland
14:15 DavidShuttleton
‘More Particulars’: Narrative Competence and the Limits of Medical Communication
15:00 BREAK
15:30 Sabine Arnaud
Destinies of a Metaphor: Figuring What Cannot Be Defined in French Modern Medicine (1575-1820)
16:15 Open discussion
Feb 7th, 2014
9:30 COFFEE
Chair Debolina Dey
10:00 Anne Vila
Imagining the Cataleptic in French Medicine and Literature, 1730-1840
10:45 Javier Moscoso
Morbid Jealousy: The Medicalization of Passions in the Early 19th Century
11:30 Janet Beizer
The Paper Eaters: Colette, Balzac, Pica, and the Perversion of Reading
12:15 Discussion
12:30 LUNCH
Chair Lara Keuck
13:30 Peter Logan
Dickens and Delusion
14:15 Marie Guthmüller Dreams as Symptom: Attempts to Integrate Dreams into Psychopathological Diagnoses in the 19th Century
15:00 BREAK
15:30 Open discussion