Program

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SATURDAY, 21 AUGUST - SUNDAY, 22 AUGUST

Bridging the Baltic: Medicine in the Baltic Sea region IV symposium, organized by the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Rīga Stradiņš University, Odense University, and Lund University

MONDAY, 23 AUGUST

RSU Anatomy Museum, 9 Kronvalda blvd.
 
09:00-16:00 Pre-Congress Workshop (ONLINE) by Yoel Donchin "The Smart Use of Video Clips and Movies as an Effective Tool for Teaching History of Medicine” (25.00 EUR). More information

14:30 - 16:00 Inaugural Joint Session of ISHM (International Society for History of Medicine) and IAHN (International Association for the History of Nephrology)

Chairs: Carlos VIESCA-TREVIŇO,  Athanasios DIAMANDOPOULOS

• Introduction by ISHM and IAHN Officers.
• John XXI, the Pope Philosopher and Physician-Scientist of Portuguese Origins died of Crush Syndrome in 1277. Natale Gaspare DE SANTO, Italy.
• Paramedical marginalia in the vast literature about gout. Athanasios DIAMANDOPOULOS, Greece.
• Gout a papal disease: A study of 22 popes from Gregory I (580-604) to Pius VIII (1829-1830). Carmela BISACCIA, Italy.
• Gioachino Rossini and his relation with two famous urologists: Jean Civiale and Auguste Nelaton. Effie POULAKOU-REBELAKOU, Greece.

16:00 - 17:00 ISHM Executive bureau meeting

17:00 - 18:00 ISHM Administrative council meeting & polls

18:00 - 18:45 Opening ceremony

18:45 - 19:30 Keynote lecture by Jacalyn DUFFIN (Canada) “Stanley's Dream: The Medical Expedition to Easter Island”.

20:00 Get-together reception at Pauls Stradins Museum of History of Medicine

TUESDAY, 24 AUGUST

RSU Anatomy Museum, 9 Kronvalda blvd.

10:00 - 12:00 Session 1
up to 10 min per presentation

Chair: Dana BARAN

• The 1st Congress of Healing Art (1920) and the foundation of the ISHM. Jean-Pierre TRICOT, Belgium.
• Dr. Victor Gomoiu and the IX-th Congress of the International Society for the History of Medicine. Dana BARAN, Romania.
• Medicine on the walls. Muralists painting the history of medicine in Mexico during the XXth century. Mercedes ALANIS, Mexico.
• The first healthcare building in Latvia in the style of functionalism. Juris SALAKS, Latvia.
• S. Eisenstein and A. Best Maugard two cinematographic points of view over Public Health and Social Care. Andrés ARANDA CRUZALTA, Mexico.
• Reflection of dermatology and venereology in arts and skin as a tool for expression over time. Elga SIDHOMA, Latvia.
• In the material footsteps of Louis Pasteur. Jessica CASACCIA, Italy.
• The institutional pasts of photographs by Paulis Cīrulis (1917 – 1991). Baiba TETERE, Latvia.
• Contrasts of the morbid art: heroes and details in Thomas Eakin’s two masterpieces. Dzintra KAZOKA, Latvia.
• Who let Castellani go? War and medicine in the life of Sir Aldo Castellani. Luca BORGHI, Italy.

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch break

13:00 - 14:30 Session 2
up to 10 min per presentation

Chair: Vilma GUDIENE

• The role of independent medical community in the development of health care institutions in Russia (1860-1917). Evgeniya PANOVA, Russia.
• Concerning the history of teaching medical police at Ukrainian Universities in the first half of the 19th century. Kostiantyn VASYLIEV, Ukraine.
• Facing the artificial selection of the humankind: catholic physicians and the catholic way to eugenics. Carlo BOVOLO, Italy.
• Comparative analysis of the contents of Jesuit pharmacies books collections, in 18th century. Vilma GUDIENE, Lithuania.
• The restoration of the Medical Institute in Kyiv under Nazi occupation (1941-1943) as reflected in the local Ukrainian press. Nikola DANILOV, Israel.
• Contribution of foreign professors to the development of the university medical studies in Kaunas during 1922-1940. Asta LIGNUGARIENE, Lithuania.
• António Plácido da Costa (1849 – 1916): physician, university teacher and the timelessness of the invention. Amélia RICON FERRAZ, Portugal.
• Integration, adaptation and modernization: Jiang lvceng with the earliest design of medical university In modern China. Zetao ZOU, China

14:30 - 15:00 Coffee Break

15:00 - 16:30 Session 3
up to 10 min per presentation

Chair: Benjamin KUNTZ

• Medical books: The Codex de la Cruz-Badiano. Areli MUÑOZ-CRUZ, Mexico.
• Medicine in Ancient Knidos. Berrin OKKA, Turkey.
• Emergence of higher medical education for women in Russia in 1860—1910. Maria PONOMAREVA, Russia.
• Lucie Adelsberger (1895-1971): Emancipated medical doctor and scientist in the field of allergology and cancer research - survivor and chronologist of Auschwitz. Benjamin KUNTZ, Germany.
• Medical women in Antiquity. Ana Maria ROSSO, Argentina.
• Polish traces of great Nobel Prize winners in the field of physiology and medicine. Ewa SKRZYPEK, Poland.
• E. Hedón and E. Gley, the pioneers of the discovery of the antidiabetic hormone (1892-1900), antedated insulin (1922). Alberto de LEIVA-HIDALGO, Spain.
• Excellence in pharmacology with a focus on international prizes, 1900-2020. Michael WILING, Germany.

16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 - 17:45 Keynote lecture by Nils HANSSON (Germany) “How (not) to Win the Nobel Prize: Winners and Losers in Nobel Prize history”.

17:45 - 18:30 Panel discussion moderated by Nils HANSSON “The Gender Award Gap in Medicine”. Panelists: Marika GARNIZONE (Latvia), Jacalyn DUFFIN (Canada) and Jocalyn CLARK (U.K.)

19:00 - Old town tour and Pharmacy museum

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25

RSU Anatomy Museum, 9 Kronvalda blvd.

Satellite symposium Anatomy & Beyond
In collaboration with AEIMS / BIOMAB / ARSIC
Supported by Embassy of Belgium to Sweden and Latvia, General Representation of the Government of Flanders in Poland and the Baltic States, Vesalius Trust and Mr Didzis Gavars

09:45-10:00 Symposium opening

Session A. Moderator Ieva LĪBIETE, Latvia. ONSITE

• 10:00-10:30 Alien Anatomies. Richard WINGATE, U.K.
• 10:30-11:00 Anatomy for the surgeon: Then, Now and into the future. Francis WELLS, U.K.
• 11:30-12:00 Existential Anatomy. Joe DAVIS, U.S.

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch break

Session B. Moderator Ann VAN DE VELDE, Belgium

• 13:00-13:30 Regenerative synthetic ecosystems and evolving asteroid starships: a cybernetic reframing of the politics, poetics and ethics of space colonization. Angelo VERMEULEN, Belgium.
• 13:30-14:00 Intelligent Facial Prostheses. Andrew BURD, U.K./China.
• 14:00-14:30 Exploring the Link Between Our Cultural & Biological Evolution through Art : in the Anthropocene Age. Mara G. HASELTINE, U.S.

14:30 - 15:00 Coffee break

Session C. Moderator Pascale POLLIER, Belgium / U.K.

• 15:00-15:30 Anatomy Museums of a Critical Posthumanist. Nina SELLARS, Australia.
• 15:30-16:00 The edge of Anatomy. Andrew CARNIE, U.K.
• 16:00-16:30 The Past of the Future. Eleanor CROOK, U.K.

16:30-17:00 Coffee break

17:00-17:45 ISHM Keynote lecture by Alexander Lucas Bieri (CH) “Andreas Vesal’s Lasting Impact on the Art of the Danse Macabre”.

Panel “Death and Beyond”. Moderator Alya DIRIX, Belgium / Greece.

• 17:45-18:00 How would Sophocles's Antigone bury and rebury her brother tomorrow? Theo DIRIX, Belgium / Greece.
• 18:00-18:15 Dealing with the Dead - Sentiment versus Modernity. William EDWARDS, U.K.
• 18:15-18:30 Should humans from the past exist as digital humans in the future? Mark ROUGHLEY, U.K.
• 18:30 - 18:45 Open floor panel discussion

19:00-19:15 Bryan W. GREEN, U.K. Performance “Anatomy & Beyond”.

Vernissage of the “Anatomy & Beyond” exhibition
Rector’s reception at the Anatomy Museum

THURSDAY, 26 AUGUST

RSU Anatomy Museum, 9 Kronvalda blvd.

10:00 - 12:00 Session 4
up to 10 min per presentation

Chair: Ramunas KONDRATAS

• The origins and the evolution of the Anti-Vaccination Movement. Maria MANDYLA-KOUSOUNI, Greece.
• Was Jane Seymour (1509–1537), the English Queen of Henry VIII Delivered by a Cesarean Section? Samuel LURIE, Israel.
• Joshua 0. Leibowitz (1895-1993): From Riga to Jerusalem: A life in Medicine and Medical History. Kenneth COLLINS, Israel.
• A "moral cure for madness" practiced by Joseph Frank (1771-1842) during his teaching years at Vilnius University. Massimo ALIVERTI, Italy (talk provided in French).
• The Life and Times of Ivar Asbjorn Folling. Larisis Angelos LARISIS, Greece.
• The role of vital forces in Jędrzej Sniadecki’s theory of organic beings. Ramunas KONDRATAS, Lithuania.
• Superstitiosa amuleta reijcimus: Basilius Plinius and the cure for incubus. Mārtiņš LAIZĀNS, Latvia.
• The First Hundred Years of Kaunas Anatomists’ Research Work. Anita DABUŽINSKIENE, Lithuania.
• Dr. Jonas Basanavičius (1851 – 1927) and his nervous disease. Eglė SAKALAUSKAITĖ-JUODEIKIENĖ, Lithuania.
• Friedirch Bidder. Maie TOOMSALU, Estonia.
• A description of syndromic cryptophthalmos by poet Daniel Hermann in "De monstroso partu…" published in Riga, 1596. Ieva LĪBIETE, Latvia.

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch break

13:00 - 14:30 Session 5
up to 10 min per presentation

Chair: Agostinho MOREIRA DE SOUSA

• Stepan Rudansky — the Great Poet, Doctor and Humanist. Borys TKACH, Ukraine.
• Evgeny Nikanorovich Pavlovsky (1884-1965) and the Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Nadezhda SLEPKOVA, Russia.
• Lancet and art. Antonio Scarpa (1752-1832) scientist and aesthete. Giorgio ZANCHIN, Italy.
• Medical Practice in the 18th century according to Giacomo Casanova(1725-1798), manqué physician. Lisetta LOVETT, U.K.
• Issues of anthropology, racial ideology and medicine in a book ,,Siegfried Immerselbe atsinaujina”(1934) by Ignas Šeinius.  Aistis ŽALNORA, Lithuania.
• Écorché. Anatomical body models in medical and art education throughout the centuries. Uldis ZARINS, Latvia.
• The ALCMAEON project: Designing a digital collection to include medical museum in the teaching of medical humanities and promote object-based learning education model. Niki PAPAVRAMIDOU, Greece.
• The use of geospatial tools to study and control the Lisbon’s yellow fever outbreak in 1857. Agostinho MOREIRA DE SOUSA, Portugal.

 14:30 - 15:00 Coffee Break

15:00 - 16:30 Session 6
up to 10 min per presentation

Chair: Juris SALAKS

• Recipes for Women in the History of Arabic Medicine. Ayman Yasin ATAT, Germany.
• The Thinning Diet in Classical Antiquity, from Hippocrates to Galen’s Medical Practice. Maria Blanca RAMOS DE VIESCA, Mexico.
• Galen Concepts on the Ars Medica. Carlos VIESCA-TREVIŇO, Mexico.
• An anonymous writer of a 15th century newly traced Greek manuscript found in a personal library in Macedonia, Greece: medical-philosophical interest and religious fervour - not combined. Ourania KALOGERIDOU, Greece.
• A Comparative Study Between Egyptian and Greek Medicine in Antiquity. Theodore DRIZIS, Greece.
• A short and familiar history Artificial Intelligence, a historical perspective into bioethics. Yesim Isil ULMAN, Turkey.
• About the real significance of miasmatic theory. Dmitry BALALYKIN, Russia.
• The King Duarte of Portugal: Advices and Recipes Against Plague (15th Century). Dulce O. AMARANTE DOS SANTOS, Brazil
• A Recipe by Aspasia (Vi D. C.) — the Use of Medicinal Plants in the Light of Modern Biochemistry. Maria do Sameiro BARROSO, Portugal

16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break

19:00 - Gala dinner. Pauls Stradiņš Awards Ceremony.

Organizers kindly invite you to join the Gala dinner, which will take place in Wellton Riverside SPA Hotel with a terrace and a wonderful view of the longest river of Latvia, the Daugava (additional fee)

Address: 33, 11. Novembra krastmala, Riga, LV-1050, Latvia

FRIDAY, AUGUST 27

RSU Anatomy Museum, 9 Kronvalda blvd.

10:00 - 10:45 Keynote lecture by Dan HEALEY “The Notebooks of Gulag Doctors: Medical service in Stalin’s Labour Camps”.

10:45-11:30 Panel discussion moderated by Florian Steger (Germany) “Medicine and Totalitarianism”. Panelists: Marcin Orzechowski (Germany), Ineta Lipša (Latvia)

11:30-12:00 Coffee break

12:00-13:30 Session 7
up to 10 min per presentation

Chair: Aistis ŽALNORA

• Who was a Nazi? German and Austrian Neurologists During the „Third Reich“. Axel KARENBERG, Germany.
• Doctor of Philosophy, Biology and Medicine, Professor Johann Paul Kremer – Auschwitz physician, executioner and war criminal (based on the materials of J.P. Kremer's diary). Sergey GLYANTSEV, Russia.
• The USSR in the International Hygienic Exhibition in Dresden in 1930: Healthcare as “Soft Power”. Pavel RATMANOV, Russia.
• The First Experimental Studies of Human Eggs’ Fertilization Outside the Body in 1955—1966. Vladimir LITVINOV, Russia.
• Medical items through the iron curtain’s sliding doors.  Laura MUSAJO SOMMA, Italy.
• Beyond Borders: A Surprising History of Ebstein’s Anomaly and the Wilhelm Ebstein Monument. Magdalena MAZURAK, Poland.
• In the End It Was Infection: Opthalmologic diseases at Early Missionary Hospitals in China. Yiwei YAN, China.
• Was the donor of the first heart transplant actually brain dead? A contribution to the history of brain death concept. Zoltán SÜTTŐ, Hungary.
• Medical Conflicts Between West and East - the Strange Case of Two Chinese Women in Portugal. Catarina JANEIRO, Portugal

13:30-14:30 Lunch break

14:30-16:30  Session 8
up to 10 min per presentation

Chair: Florian STEGER

• Trapped in hospital. The life course of refugee psychiatric patients in Finland after WWII. Helene LAURENT, Finland.
• Patients in University Hospital for the Mentally and Nervously Ill in Dorpat, 1881-1895. Anu RAE, Estonia.
• Syphilis issue and fight with prostitution in 1890s Tartu. Jens RAEVALD, Estonia.
• The Famine of 1695–1697 and its Impact on Eighteenth-Century Interest in Demography and Public Health in Sweden. Elina MAANIITTY. Finland.
• Folk and Traditional Medicine: terminology problems. Tatiana SOROKINA, Russia.
• Jewish Medical Practitioners in Medieval Muslim Territories: A Prosopography. Efraim LEV, Israel.
• The T.T.T. Project – Professor Moshe Prywes and the Health Promotion Campaign among Jewish Immigrants in North Africa. Shifra SHVARTS, Israel.
• Latvian volunteers in the International Brigades Health Services (Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939). Carmen Pérez AGUADO, Spain.

16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break

17:00- 19:00 General assembly. Closing & Professor Mark Mirsky award ceremony

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