Institute for the History of Medicine and Science
University of Luebeck
Luebeck, 18 - 20 May, 2001
Organization: Volker Roelcke, Giovanni Maio
Program
Friday, May 18th
9.00-9.15: Welcome, Introduction
session 1: Norms and debates: 'starting points'
9.15-10.00:
Barbara Elkeles (Duesseldorf): The German debate on human experimentation between 1880 and 1914
10.00-10.45:
Etienne Lepicard (Jerusalem): Changing evaluations: Catholic attitudes on human experimentation.
10.45-11.30:
Gerhard Baader (Berlin): Jewish halachical ethics on human experimentation.
coffee break
session 2: Research practices, first decades of the 20th century
12.00-12.45:
Wolfgang Eckart (Heidelberg): The colony as laboratory - Sleeping sickness experiments in German East Africa and Togo
12.45-13.30:
Christoph Gradmann (Heidelberg): Laboratory infection and therapeutic experiments in early 20th century Germany
coffee break
session 3: BCG-vaccination, the Luebeck case, and the 'Reichsrichtlinien'
14.30-15.15:
Daniel Nadav (Tel Aviv): Julius Moses and 'Der Totentanz von Luebeck'
15.15-16.00:
Christian Bonah (Strasbourg): BCG-vaccination around 1930 - dangerous experiment or established prevention? Discussions in France and Germany
lunch break
session 4: Nazi medicine: norms and practices
16.15-17.00:
Andreas Frewer (Goettingen): Debates on human experimentation in Weimar and early Nazi Germany
17.00-17.45:
Volker Roelcke (Luebeck): Human experimentation during the time of National Socialism
coffee break
session 5: Postwar trials and the Nuremberg code
17.45-18.30:
Paul Weindling (Oxford): The Discourse on Human Experiments at the Nuremberg Medical Trial
18.30-19.00: Discussion
Saturday, May 19th
session 6: Research practices outside the scope of the post-war trials
9.00-9.45:
Till Baernighausen (Heidelberg): History of human experimentation in Japan
9.45-10.30:
Maria Rentetzi (Blacksburg/VA): The "radium girls" as experimental subjects
coffee break
11.00-11.45:
Nadav Davidovitch (Tel Aviv/ Harvard): From a 'Humble Humbug' to the 'Powerful Placebo': The Image of the Placebo in the Alternative-Orthodox Medicine Debate
11.45-12.30:
David Rothman (New York): First World Researchers, Third World Subjects: The Past and Present Record
lunch break
session 7: Post-Nuremberg debates
14.00-14.45
Paul Edelson (New York): Evaluating human experimentation in the US and the UK during the 1960s: Beecher und Pappworth
14.45-15.30:
Susan Lederer (New Haven): Creating the Declaration of Helsinki: The World Medical Association and the Rules for Human Experimentation.
15.30-16.15:
Giovanni Maio (Luebeck): The French debate on human experimentation, 1945-1990
coffee break
16.45-17.30:
Boris Yudin (Moscow): Human experimentation in the Soviet Union/Russia
17.30-18.15:
Jiri Simek (Prague): Human experimentation in the Czech Republic in the last decades
19.30: Dinner
Sunday, 20th
session 8: Politics and practices of genetic research
9.00-9.45:
Nurit Kirsh (Tel Aviv): 'The Wandering Jew Returns to his Homeland': How the Zionist narrative is reflected in genetic research about communities in Israel
9.45-10.30:
Harriet Washington (New York): Stereotyping the Karyotype: Adventures in the Genetics of Aggression
10.30-11.15:
Pei Koay (Blacksburg/VA): Decoding Iceland. Researching genetic data in complete populations.
coffee break
11.45-12.30: Final discussion
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