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Calendar / Announcements 1998 |
Pain and Suffering in History: Narratives of Science, Medicine, and Culture
Los Angeles, California, USA
13-14 March 1998
The UCLA History of Pain Project will host an interdisciplinary symposium on the history of pain in medicine and society, to mark the official opening of the John C. Liebeskind History of Pain Collection. This symposium will be the first occasion on which scholars from the humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences meet to explore this complex and fascinating topic. Special features will include a History of Pain Exhibit mounted by the UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library and a reception for all participants on Saturday evening. The Symposium is jointly sponsored by the Department of Psychology, the Center for Cultural Studies of Science, Technology, and Medicine, the Biomedical Library, the University of California Humanities Research Institute, and the Fetzer Institute.
Pain is a universal human experience, known to every time and every culture; but it has not always had the same character. Until the nineteenth century, pain-for Europeans and Americans-was a religious and philosophical problem, an essential part of human life with which individuals dealt by drawing on mental discipline and spiritual belief, as well as on physical fortitude. Physicians treated pain, but also used its "vital force" as a diagnositc and therapeutic aid. Physiologists began to explore the neuroanatomy of pain in the 1800s, but it was not until the years after World War II that pain became the focus of an organized scientific and medical field. Despite many recent advances in pain research and management, traditional social and cultural ideas persist and continue to influence the individual experience of pain.
There is no charge for symposium attendance or for the reception, but reservations are required to ensure sufficient seating. There is a $16 charge for those wishing to have lunch at the UCLA Faculty Center on Friday. Attendees may also order a softcover book of the conference papers at a cost of $25 each..
| 9:00 am | Welcome and Opening Remarks |
9:10 am | David Morris, Ph.D. (literature) Albuquerque, New Mexico "Histories of pains: Early nineteenth-century Europe" |
9:50 am | Donald Caton, M.D. (anesthesiology) University of Florida "The medical response to pain during the 19th century" |
| 10:30 am | Break | 10:45 am | David Horn, Ph.D. (anthropology) Ohio State University "Cesare Lombrosco and the evolutionary scale of pain" |
| 11:25 | Discussion |
| 11:45 am | Lunch | 1:20 pm | Michael Aminoff, M.D. (neurology) University of California, San Francisco "Brown-Séquard and the pain pathway in the spinal cord" |
2:00 pm | Gregory Eghigian, Ph.D. (history) University of Texas "Pain and suffering in German culture and society" |
10:45 am | David Horn, Ph.D. (anthropology) Ohio State University "Cesare Lombroso and the evolutionary scale of pain" |
| 2:40 pm | Break | 3:00 pm | Jan McTavish, Ph.D. (history) University of Winnipeg "Pain, democracy, and free enterprise: The headache and its remedies in historical perspective" |
3:40 | Marcia Meldrum, Ph.D. (history) University of California, Los Angeles "Tell me if this hurts: The problem of pain and analgesic measurement 1940-1960" |
| 4:20 pm | Discussion |
| 5:00 pm | Adjourn |
| 9:00 am | Harold Merskey,M.D. (psychiatry) London, Ontario, Canada "The founding of the International Association for the Study of Pain" |
9:20 a.m. | Special Presentation
"The founding of the American Pain Society" |
9:40 am | Special Tribute to John C. Liebeskind |
| 10:00 am | Break | 10:20 am | David Clark, Ph.D. (sociology) University of Sheffield "Total pain and disciplinary power in the work of Cicely Saunders, 1957-1967 " |
11:00 am | Mark Sullivan, M.D. (psychiatry) University of Washington "The problem of the clinico-pathological approach to pain" |
| 11:40 am | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Adjourn | 6:00 pm | Reception Biomedical Library, Rare Book Room |