Locating Intersections of Medicine and Mobility in 19th-Century Britain

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Locating Intersections of Medicine and Mobility in 19th-Century Britain

Veranstalter
Dr. Sandra Dinter / Dr. Sarah Schäfer-Althaus
Veranstaltungsort
Alte Bibliothek, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Ort
Erlangen
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
04.10.2019 - 05.10.2019
Website
https://www.angam.phil.fau.de/medicine-mobility/
Von
Dr. Sandra Dinter

While the 18th century brought forth important breakthroughs in midwifery, obstetrics, vaccination and public health and hygiene, it is the 19th century which witnessed the rise of modern and institutionalised medicine and continues to be known for its scientific discoveries and new diagnostic procedures. A similar development can be observed with regard to mobility during this period. The technological advancements of the industrial revolution, the spread of railways, steamboats, the underground and omnibuses marked the dawn of mass tourism and made it easier for the greater population to move from one place to another than ever before, be it for necessity or for pleasure. The aim of this conference is to locate and examine possible intersections between medicine and mobility in 19th-century Britain, an intriguing topic that has only received little scholarly attention thus far. At the centre of discussion will be the literary, cultural and historical processes through which medicine and mobility are intertwined and reconfigured in the 19th century. We are interested in debating the following questions: What are the links between (im-)mobility, health, and medical surveillance and how are these issues represented in literary texts and other cultural artefacts in the 19th century? Which physiological movements were pathologised and which were considered beneficial? How did mobility and mass tourism affect forms of therapeutic exercise and the implementation of innovative treatments and vice versa? What impacts did race, gender, sexuality and class have on (im-)mobility and medicine?

Zuhörer/innen sind herzlich willkommen und können sich noch bis zum 15. September 2019 unter sandra.dinter@fau.de und salthaus@uni-koblenz.de für die Teilnahme an der Tagung anmelden. Die Tagung wird von der Fritz Thyssen Stiftung unterstützt.

Programm

Friday, 4 October 2019

09:30-10:00
Registration and Coffee

10:00-10:30
Welcome and Introduction
Sandra Dinter & Sarah Schäfer-Althaus
“Locating Intersections of Medicine and Mobility in 19th-Century Britain”

10:30-13:00
Panel 1: Nineteenth-Century Medical Tourism and Therapeutic Travel
Chair: Sarah Schäfer-Althaus

Sally Shuttleworth
“The Siren Call of the Mediterranean: Medical Climatology and Travel for Health, 1860-1900”

Matthew Ingleby
“Sea Sicknesses, London–Margate c. 1815”

Charlotte Mathieson
“Sunburnt at Sea: Developing Understandings of Sunburn and Tanning in Nineteenth-Century Maritime Medicine”

13:00-14:00
Lunch Break

14:00-16:00
Panel 2: Literary Perspectives on Mental Health, Physiology and (Im-)Mobility
Chair: Wolfgang Funk

Heidi Liedke
“(Mental) Health and Travel: Mary Shelley and George Gissing Crossing Borders”

Andrew Mangham
“Monstrosities: Mobility and Development in the Early Nineteenth Century”

Stefanie John
“A Feverish Restlessness: Decadence, Disease and Mobility in Late Victorian Poetry”

16:00-16:30
Coffee Break

16:30-18:00
Panel 3: Feminine Mobility and the Gendered Medical Gaze
Chair: Sandra Dinter

Ariane de Waal
“Exposure, Contamination, and ‘Peculiar Feelings’: The Travelling Skin of Victorian Horsewomen and Railway Passengers”

Monika Class
“Feminine Comportment, Motility and Spatiality in George Eliot’s Mill on the Floss (1860)”

19:00
Conference Dinner

Saturday, 5 October 2019

09:30-11:00
Panel 4: Mobility, Medicine and the Empire
Chair: Daniel Schäbler

Markku Hokkanen
“From Heroic Exploration to Careful Control: Mobility, Health and Medicine in the British African Empire”

Monika Pietrzak-Franger
“Travelling Knowledge in Victorian Britain”

11:00-11:30
Coffee Break

11:30-13:00
Panel 5: Medicine, Mobility and Confinement in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Chair: Susanne Gruß

Kim Price
“Convicts on the Move: Spaces of Pain, Experimentation and Cure in Nineteenth-Century British Prison Medicine”

Hilary Marland
“Prisons, Asylums and the Mobility of Lunacy in Late Nineteenth-Century England”

13:00-14:00
Lunch Break

14:00-15:30
Panel 6: The Mobilities of Health and Disease
Chair: Sarah Schäfer-Althaus

Pamela Gilbert
“Watering Holes: Changes of Scene, Healthy Waters and Moral Dangers in the 19th Century”

Ursula Kluwick
“Moving Matter: Disease as Mobility in Victorian Literature”

15:30-16:00
Coffee Break

16:00-17:00
Concluding Discussion

Kontakt

Sandra Dinter

Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Bismarckstraße 1, 91054 Erlangen

sandra.dinter@fau.de

https://www.angam.phil.fau.de/medicine-mobility/