ISHN/ECHN/EAHP 1999 Meeting Announcement and Call for Abstracts

The Neurosciences and Psychiatry: Crossing the Boundaries

	Mental diseases as brain diseases?		Brain research generating epistemology?
	Psychiatrists as pioneers in neurology?		Neurosciences: Social dimensions?

First Announcement and Call for Abstracts

European Association
for the History of
Psychiatry

EAHP

European Club
for the History of
Neurology

ECHN

International Society
for the History of the
Neurosciences

ISHN

First Joint Congress

Zürich and Lausanne, Switzerland
14-18 September 1999
The fourth International Triennial Conference of the European Association for the History of Psychiatry,
the seventh biannual meeting of the European Club for the History of Neurology,
and the fourth annual meeting of the International Society for the History of the Neurosciences

will be held jointly in Switzerland:
the first part in Zürich (14-16 September), the second in Lausanne (17-18 September)
(the two cities are within two and a half hours travelling by train or car)

Format: Plenary lectures and panel discussions, parallel seminars and plenary poster sessions

Venue:

Zürich: Neurologische Universitätsklinik, Frauenklinikstrasse 26, CH - 8091 Zürich
Lausanne: Clinique psychiatrique universitaire, Hôpital de Cery, CH - 1008 Prilly-Lausanne

Scholars and researchers are invited to submit abstracts

on the common history of psychiatry and the neurosciences
on other topics from the history of the neurosciences
on other topics from the history of psychiatry

Papers dealing with cross-boundary themes in general are encouraged. A scientific committee will examine all abstracts. The final programme will be published in May 1999.

Official languages: English, German and French.

Deadline for submitted abstracts: 30th January 1999.

Size: 300 words, double spaced, one page.

The abstracts should be sent to:

Dr. med. Caroline Jagella

Medizinhistorisches Institut der Universität Zürich

Rämistrasse 71

CH - 8006 Zürich

Switzerland

tel.: ++41-1-634 20 78

fax: ++41-1-634 23 49

email: cjagella@mhiz.unizh.ch