Program
videos from the congress are available here
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