Medicine and Poisons in European History
Residència d’Investigadors,
Barcelona, 25–27 September 2014
International conference
organised by the History Department at The Open University, Milton
Keynes, UK; and the Medical and Scientific Culture Group at the IMF-CSIC,
Barcelona, Spain
(Organisers: O.P. Grell, A.
Cunningham, and J. Arrizabalaga)
Conference sponsored by the
Wellcome Trust and the Faculty of Arts, The Open University
Programme
Thursday 25th
September 2014
17.00–17.15: Ole Peter Grell (The Open
University)
Welcome and
introduction
17.15–18.15:
Toine Pieters
(University of Utrecht)
Historic
role of pharmacist purifying substances
18.30: Visit to Hospital de
Santa Creu
20.00: Reception sponsored by
Ashgate Publishing
Friday 26th
September 2014
09.00–10.00: Helen King (The Open
University)
‘First gut your
viper’: acquiring knowledge in Galen’s poison stories
10.00–10.30:
Coffee
10.30-11.00:
Visit to 18th Century Anatomical Theatre
11.00–12.00: Monserrat Cabré & Fernando Salmón (University of Cantabria)
Poisons and the
medieval humoral body
12.00–13.-00:
Jon Arrizabalaga (IMF-CSIC, Barcelona)
Pestis
manufacta: plague,
poisons, and fear in Old-Regime Europe
13.00-14.00: Lunch
14.00-15.00: Georgiana Hedesan (University of Oxford)
Paracelsus's
alchemical theories of universal poison
15.00–16.00: Alessandro Pastore (University of Verona)
Poisoning as politics:
the Italian Renaissance courts
16.00–16.30: Tea
16.30–17.30: Andrew Cunningham (University of Cambridge)
Mercury: ‘one of the
most valuable drugs we have’ (1924)
18.00: Visit to the Salvadoriana
exhibition (Barcelona Botanical Garden)
20.30: Dinner
Saturday 27th
September
09.00–10.00: Alisha Rankin (Tufts University, USA)
Gender, poison, and
antidotes in early modern Europe
10.00-11.00: Helen Bynum (London)
‘I’ll ne’er trust
medicine’: Poison on stage
11.00-11.30: Coffee
11.30-12.30: José R.
Bertomeu-Sánchez
(University of Valencia)
Matthew Orfila and 19th
century French toxicology
12.30-13.30: Anne Hardy (London School of Tropical
Medicine)
Collateral benefits:
food poisoning agents and their therapeutic applications since 1800
13.30-14.30: Lunch
14.30-15.30: William Bynum (London)
Poison by prescription
15.30-16.30: Tea
16.30-17.00: Closing session
20.30: Conference Dinner
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