M. Knipper
Friday, November 24
13:00-15:00 Registration and lunch
15:00-15:30 Opening and Introduction
Marcos Cueto (Lima) & Michael Knipper (Gießen): Kuczynski and “ethnic pathology” in Germany, Russia, Latin America and beyond: facts, topics and questions
15:30-16:45 Session 1: International Health and Social Medicine in the European Context in the first half of the 20 th century.
Iris Borowy (Rostock): The politics of international scientific cooperation in medicine and health during the interwar period.
Paul Weindling (Oxford): Forging an International Scientific Coalition against Racism, 1918-40.
17:00-18:30 Session 2: The “ethnic pathology”-approach at the interface of pathology, medical history and ethnography
Cay-Rüdiger Prüll (Freiburg): The “ethnic pathology”-approach in the context of contemporary German pathology (1900-1933).
Michael Knipper (Gießen): Friends and foes in 19 th century medical sciences: Kuczynski’s reception of August Hirsch, Rudolf Virchow and Julius Hirschberg.
Josep Comelles (Tarragona): Ethnographic methods between medicine, psychiatry and ethnography in the first decades of 20 th century.
Saturday, November 25
9:30-11:30 Session 3: Medical geography and social hygiene in the “east”
Marius Turda (Oxford): Rural Biology in Interwar Romania: A Peripheral Case in Ethnic Pathology?
Jochen Richter (Berlin): Max Kuczynski: a physician in Marco Polo's footsteps
Susan Gross Solomon (Toronto): The Swiss Connection: Max Kuczinski, the West Siberian Medical Institute (Omsk), and Ethnopathology.
Wolfgang Eckart (Heidelberg): With colonial eyes? - Heinrich Zeiss as a traveler in the soviet Union, 1921-1932.
11:45-12:45 Session 4: Medical Sciences and Social Medicine in Latin America (Part 1)
Jaime Benchimol (Rio de Janeiro): Scientific relations between Germany and Brazil (1850-1918)
Magali Romero (Rio de Janeiro): Parasites, pathologies and medical geography: German medical science in Brazil and Argentina in the early 20th Century.
15:00-16:30 Session 5: Medical Sciences and Social Medicine in Latin America (Part 2)
Marcos Cueto (Lima): Social Medicine and Maxime Kuczynski-Godard in the Peruvian Amazon
Juan Pablo Murillo (Lima): The “ethnic pathology”-approach in the history of Peruvian Epidemiology.
Cynthia Pope (New Britain, CT): Marginalization and HIV in Latin America: The case of Mayans and ethnic pathology frameworks of risk in Belize
Sunday, November 26
9:30-10:30 Session 6: The adaptation of “European” medical sciences and social medicine in Africa
Walter Bruchhausen (Bonn): The adaptation of “social medicine” to East Africa. Academic and political influences on colonial health policies, 1920-1970
Glenn Ncube (Harare): “The sick African”: Michael Gelfand’s approach to understanding and curbing disease among the Africans in Colonial Zimbabwe
10:45-12:00 Session 7: Final remarks
Volker Roelcke (Gießen): The “ethnic pathology” approach and the history of medicine: lessons and questions (comment)
Axel Kroeger (Geneva): The “ethnic pathology” approach seen from the perspective of contemporary medicine and International Public Health (comment)
Marcos Cueto (Lima) “…and beyond”: lessons and perspectives for historical research and contemporary international health