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Medicine in the Baltic Sea Region since the early 20th Century:
Networks, transfers, consequencesPALAESTRA ET ODEUM | 25-27 MARCH,
2020 PARADISGATAN 4, LUND | LUND UNIVERSITY, SWEDEN
CONTACT & REGISTRATIONDr Nils Hansson
Department of History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine
Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf
Moorenstr. 5
40225 Düsseldorf
Germany
E-mail: [email protected]
The Department of History of Medicine at Lund University,
Sweden, the Department of History, Theory and Ethics of
Medicine at the Heinrich-Heine-University in Düsseldorf,
Germany, and the Riga Stradins University, Latvia, are
organising
an international symposium about medicine in the Baltic Sea
region. The focus is on scientific networks and transfers
since
the turn of the 20th century, and their impact today. The
symposium is supported by the European Association for the
History of Medicine and Health (EAHMH).
A new “Hanseatic League”, “a global hotspot for health”,
“one of the most innovative science macro-regions in the
world”? In the fields of life science and technology,
politicians
and managers of current large research projects describe the
Baltic Sea region as a hub of cutting-edge research. How did
these images emerge? Although several research programs have
been established to foster research on this territory,
surprisingly
few publications deal thoroughly with “Baltic Sea networks”
in medicine and their impact for the production and spread
of
knowledge. This symposium brings together researchers who
currently work on aspects of medical history in the Baltic
Sea
region to illuminate currents of ideas and areas of
cooperation
and conflict.
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Program
25 MARCH 2020
19:00 Get-together
(restaurant Stäket, Stora Södergatan 6, Lund)
26 MARCH 2020
09:00-09:20 Welcome Heiko Herwald, Vice Dean Faculty of
Medicine, Lund University Peter M Nilsson, Lund University Juris
Salaks, Riga Stradins University Heiner Fangerau, Düsseldorf
University
09.20-10:20 Key note-lecture: Johan Östling, Lund: Circulation
and Public Arenas of Knowledge: Reflections on new directions in
the history of knowledge (Introduced by Nils Hansson)
10:20-10.35 Break
10:35-11:50 Session I: Scientific exchange in northern Europe
(Chair: PM Nilsson) Yvonne Gavallér, Düsseldorf: Changing objects.
Scientific transfer between Germany and Sweden on the example of
neurasthenia Kristin Halverson, Stockholm: Tools of the Trade:
Medical Devices and Historical Meanings in Sweden and Denmark, 1850
– 1900 Petteri Pietikäinen, Oulu: How the study trips of Finnish
psychiatrists to Germany shaped mental health care in Finland
between the 1890s and World War II
11:50-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:15 Session II: Construction of excellence in the Baltic
Sea region (Chair: N Hansson) Ulrika Lagerlöf Nilsson, Göteborg:
Construction of excellence in medicine: Elite as a theoretical and
methodological concept Friedrich Moll, Thorsten Halling, Nils
Hansson, Düsseldorf: The Alwall/Gambro connection: Nephrologist and
Nobel Prize nominee Franz Volhard’s network in Scandinavia Michael
Pohar, Riga, Marie Drobietz, Düsseldorf: Medical Prizes in the
Baltic Sea region
14:15-14:30 Break
14:30-16:10 Session III: Professionalization and international
influences (Chair: Y Gavallér) Ulrike Eisenberg, Berlin: Herbert
Olivecrona (1891-1980): Influences of the founder of Swedish
neurosurgery on the establishment of neurosurgery in Germany Leva
Lībiete, Riga: Academic Psychiatry in Latvia in the 1920s and
1930s: Trends and Influences Joanna Nieznanowska, Szczecin: From
Scratch: the Foundation and the Beginnings of the Pomeranian
Medical University of Szczecin Juris Salaks, Riga: Global
Pharmaceutical Industry affiliations with the Universities in the
Baltic Countries (1920-1940)
16:10-16:20 Break
16:20-17:30 Panel discussion: Scientific cultures in the Baltic
Sea region: Opportunities and challenges (Chair: H Fangerau) H.E.
Anna Prinz, German Ambassador to Sweden Heiko Herwald, Vice Dean
Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Kajsa M Paulsson, project
manager for the new EU project “Hanseatic League of Science”
(HALOS), Steffen Fleßa, Prorector Greifswald University
Juris Salaks, Riga Stradins University
19:00 Dinner Grand Hotel (Bantorget 1, Lund)
27 MARCH 2020
09:00-10:15 Session IV: Transfer of knowledge during the Cold
War
(Chair: J Wistrand) Anne Oommen-Halbach, Düsseldorf: Korczak
studies in East and West since the 1970s - German-Polish research
on the Polish paediatrician and pedagogue Janusz Korczak
(1878-1942) Miroslaw Sikora, Katowice: “Alternative medicine” in
communist Poland. Foreign intelligence and Big Pharma in the 80s.
Björn Jonson, Anders Biörklund, Lars Malm, Lund: Academic contacts
DDR/Lund, Sweden – Multifaceted experiences
10:15-10.35 Break
10:35-11:50 Session V: Medical practice (Chair: I Libiete) Peter
M Nilsson, Lund: Cardiovascular research in the Baltic Sea area
involving Lund University Johan Nordensvärd, Stockholm: Eugenics
and compul sory sterilization: why did the adoption differ around
the Baltic Sea Region? Carl Magnus Stolt, Borås: Unexpected
interdisciplinary knowledge exchange in the Baltic Sea Region. The
mutual inspiration between the physician Carl Ludwig Schleich,
Stettin/Berlin and the author August Strindberg, Stockholm.
11:50-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:15 Session VI: Scientific bio- and pathographies in
medicine (Chair: T Wegener-Friis) Matthis Krischel, Düsseldorf:
Human Genetics across the Baltic: Gunnar Dahlberg’s reception in
Germany Anja Peters, Neubrandenburg: “Enthroned in the hearts of
thousands of Ravensbrück’s unhappy slaves.” The midwife of
Ravensbrück in the memoirs of Sylvia Salvesen. Jonatan Wistrand,
Lund: Physicians as patients – Historical narratives from the
Baltic Sea region.
14:15-15:00 Final discussion, fare-well
15:00-17:00 Sightseeing in Lund (by Bengt Uvelius)