Programme (21-22 June, 2012)

June 21 – The London School of Economics (Graham Wallas Room)

13:00 Introduction Benoist Pierre & Christelle Rabier “Court Medicine in Early Modern Europe: Issues at Stake”

13:30-15:15  Court Medical Personnel in Early Modern Europe

• Tilmann Walter, “Court Medicine in the German Southwest (1400–1700): New Findings in the Archive of the County of Hohenlohe” (abstract)
• Michele Clouse, “ ‘Good Advice and Better Medicine’: The Role of Court Physicians in Shaping Early Modern Spanish Medical Practices and Professions” (abstract)
• Benoist Pierre “French Court Medical Practitioners in 17c France: versatility, innovation and health policies” (abstract)

Discussant: Silvia de Renzi

15:15-15:45 Coffee break –

15:45-17:15 Medicine as a Political Project:

• Britta Kägler “Prestigious Practitioners: Development of Court Medicine and its Personnel at Catholic Courts – Bavarian Case Studies During 16th/17th Century” (abstract)
• Christelle Rabier, “Court Practitioners, Medical Institutions and Sanitary Reforms, France-Britain, 18c”

Discussant: Denis Crouzet

17:15-18:00: Poster session “Courtly Bodies, Health Care Politics” – presentation and final debate

June 22 – The London School of Economics (Graham Wallas Room)

9:00-10:45 Court Practitioners and the Making of Healthcare Politics (1)

• Sabine Kalff, “Changing Airs and Waters – Court Physicians and Their Impact on Health Policy in Late 16th Century Italy” (abstract)
• Tim McHugh, “Negotiating Royal Medical Authority in Eighteenth-Century Brittany” (abstract)
• Lisa W. Smith, “Sir Hans Sloane, Patronage and Smallpox Inoculation” (abstract)

Discussant: Patrick Wallis

10:45-11:00 Coffee break – Poster session “Courtly Bodies, Healthcare Politics”

11:00-13:00 Court Practitioners and the Making of Healthcare Politics (2)

• Mary Gayne; “Entre les mains de ceux qu’il préposera: Establishing Courtly Governance of Eighteenth‐Century French Wigmakers” (abstract)
• Hans-Uwe Lammel, “Pills, Corpses, Cattle Plague and Beauty. Medical Enlightenment as Literary Strategy at the Court of Mecklenburg-Schwerin” (abstract)

Discussant: Colin Jones

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:15  Courts as Places of Innovation:

• Clare Griffin, “The Production and Dissemination of Medical Knowledge at the Russian Court, 1630s-1710s” (abstract)
• Samir Boumediene, “The Accreditation of new drugs at court and the early “public health” policies at the end of the 17th century: the case of Peruvian bark and Ipecacuanha” (abstract)
• Anne-Marie Moulin, “Court Doctors in the Ottoman Empire in the 18th century: sharing medical knowledge between East and West” (abstract) – uncertain

Discussant: Sheila Ryan Johannson

15:15-15:45 Coffee break – Poster session “Courtly Bodies, Healthcare Politics”

15:45-17:00 Roundtable “Courtly Patients, Healthcare Personnel, European Politics and the Shaping of Medicine, 15c-18c,” with the participation of Elena Bakaldina, Aurore Chery and Natalie Hawkes.

Posters:

• Elena Bakaldina (University of St. Petersburg) “The medical practitioners in the household of the king of England Edward IV (1461-1483)”
• Aurore Chery  (Université de Lyon-III) “Inventing a New Medical Royal Body: the cases of Louis XV and Louis XVI”
• Natalie Hawkes (University of Newcastle): “The Premier Médecin’s Haven: Antoine Vallot and the Jardin du Roi”