Friday 9 October: The medical benefits of specific foods.
Venue: The Boardroom, Dr Steevens’ Hospital, Dublin 8.
9.00-9.30: Registration
9.30-11.00am: Session 1: Alcohol and other drinks
Andrzej Kuropatnicki (Pedagogical University of Cracow, Poland): “A little bit of beer is divine medicine”: medicinal properties of beer
Pawel Hamera (Pedagogical University of Cracow, Poland): “ A child with marasmus subsisted for three months on sweet whiskey and water alone, and ultimately recovered”: whiskey and its medicinal merits in the nineteenth-century press
Polly Putnam (Historic Royal Palaces, UK): “Luxury rather than physic”: the medicinal uses of chocolate in the Stuart and Hanoverian royal courts
11.00-11.30am: Teas/Coffees
11.30-1.00pm: Session 2: Bread, meat and eggs
Maciej Kokoszko (University of Lodz, Poland): Bread as food and medicament in Oribasius’ writings
Zofia Rzeznicka (University of Lodz, Poland): Eggs as food and drug in the light of Oribasius’ medical treatises
Giovanni Pozzetti (University of Leeds, UK): Meat and medicine in early modern England
1.00-2.00pm: Lunch (Please note that though lunch is not provided there is a canteen in the building. The Edward Worth Library will be open during lunchtime for tours.)
2.00-3.30pm: Session 3: Margarine, pineapple and rose hips
Jane Hand (University of Warwick, UK): “Your health and the food you eat”: marketing margarine and visualizing health in post-war Britain
Mat Paskins (University College London, UK): National rose hips: wild food and industrial medicine in 1940s Britain
Katrina Maydom (University of Cambridge, UK): A taste of the exotic: the dangers and virtues of the “pineapple” in early modern England, 1550-1750
3.30-4.00pm: Teas/Coffees
4.00-5.00pm: Keynote: (Inaugural Brendan Prendiville lecture):
Introduction by Eoghan Mooney, Chairperson of the Worth Library Trust.
Keynote Speaker: Steven Shapin (Harvard University, USA): The Medical Making of Modernity: Knowing about Our Food, Our Bodies, and Ourselves over the past 2,000 years
Saturday 10 October:
Venue: Dublin City Library and Archive, Pearse Street
9.00am-10.30am: Session 1: Regimen
Fabrizio Bigotti (University of Exeter, UK): Balancing mind and body in the early modern period
Ewa Geller (University of Warsaw, Poland): Yiddish ‘Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum’ from early modern Poland: a humanistic symbiosis of Jewish thought and Latin medicine
John Wilkins (University of Exeter, UK): Galen on food and good health, with a coda on his usefulness for Western societies
10.30-11.00am:Teas/Coffees
1100am-1.00pm: Session 2: Food and medical conditions
Deborah Levine (Providence College, RI, USA): Doctors “discover” diet: therapeutic diets for pregnant women, 1860-1940
Juliana Adelman (St Patrick’s College, Dublin, Ireland): ‘Sick room cookery’: medical ideas and home nursing in Ireland
Michael Walkden (University of York, UK): Diet and madness in early modern medical writing
Martin Moore (University of Warwick, UK): Diet and “the diabetic life”: discipline and patienthood in British chronic disease management, c.1910-1980
1..0-2.00pm: Lunch (Please note that lunch is not provided but that there is a library café in the building and a number of cafés in the vicinity.)
2.00pm-3.30pm: Session 3: Provisioning
Ilaria Berti (Pablo de Olavide University, Seville, Spain): Fresh food or dried food? The discourse on the food provisions of the British Army in the West Indies at the turn of the nineteenth century
Sam Goodman (Bournemouth University, UK): “Here comes a barrel of beer at last!”: food and drink as medicine in the Indian Rebellion
Lisa Haushofer (Harvard University, USA): Between food and medicine: digestive physiology and “artificially digested foods”
3.30-5.00pm: Closing remarks followed by reception and launch of digitized thesis of Dr Edward Worth (1676-1733), now held in the Dublin City Library and Archives.
Venue: The Boardroom, Dr Steevens’ Hospital, Dublin 8.
9.00-9.30: Registration
9.30-11.00am: Session 1: Alcohol and other drinks
Andrzej Kuropatnicki (Pedagogical University of Cracow, Poland): “A little bit of beer is divine medicine”: medicinal properties of beer
Pawel Hamera (Pedagogical University of Cracow, Poland): “ A child with marasmus subsisted for three months on sweet whiskey and water alone, and ultimately recovered”: whiskey and its medicinal merits in the nineteenth-century press
Polly Putnam (Historic Royal Palaces, UK): “Luxury rather than physic”: the medicinal uses of chocolate in the Stuart and Hanoverian royal courts
11.00-11.30am: Teas/Coffees
11.30-1.00pm: Session 2: Bread, meat and eggs
Maciej Kokoszko (University of Lodz, Poland): Bread as food and medicament in Oribasius’ writings
Zofia Rzeznicka (University of Lodz, Poland): Eggs as food and drug in the light of Oribasius’ medical treatises
Giovanni Pozzetti (University of Leeds, UK): Meat and medicine in early modern England
1.00-2.00pm: Lunch (Please note that though lunch is not provided there is a canteen in the building. The Edward Worth Library will be open during lunchtime for tours.)
2.00-3.30pm: Session 3: Margarine, pineapple and rose hips
Jane Hand (University of Warwick, UK): “Your health and the food you eat”: marketing margarine and visualizing health in post-war Britain
Mat Paskins (University College London, UK): National rose hips: wild food and industrial medicine in 1940s Britain
Katrina Maydom (University of Cambridge, UK): A taste of the exotic: the dangers and virtues of the “pineapple” in early modern England, 1550-1750
3.30-4.00pm: Teas/Coffees
4.00-5.00pm: Keynote: (Inaugural Brendan Prendiville lecture):
Introduction by Eoghan Mooney, Chairperson of the Worth Library Trust.
Keynote Speaker: Steven Shapin (Harvard University, USA): The Medical Making of Modernity: Knowing about Our Food, Our Bodies, and Ourselves over the past 2,000 years
Saturday 10 October:
Venue: Dublin City Library and Archive, Pearse Street
9.00am-10.30am: Session 1: Regimen
Fabrizio Bigotti (University of Exeter, UK): Balancing mind and body in the early modern period
Ewa Geller (University of Warsaw, Poland): Yiddish ‘Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum’ from early modern Poland: a humanistic symbiosis of Jewish thought and Latin medicine
John Wilkins (University of Exeter, UK): Galen on food and good health, with a coda on his usefulness for Western societies
10.30-11.00am:Teas/Coffees
1100am-1.00pm: Session 2: Food and medical conditions
Deborah Levine (Providence College, RI, USA): Doctors “discover” diet: therapeutic diets for pregnant women, 1860-1940
Juliana Adelman (St Patrick’s College, Dublin, Ireland): ‘Sick room cookery’: medical ideas and home nursing in Ireland
Michael Walkden (University of York, UK): Diet and madness in early modern medical writing
Martin Moore (University of Warwick, UK): Diet and “the diabetic life”: discipline and patienthood in British chronic disease management, c.1910-1980
1..0-2.00pm: Lunch (Please note that lunch is not provided but that there is a library café in the building and a number of cafés in the vicinity.)
2.00pm-3.30pm: Session 3: Provisioning
Ilaria Berti (Pablo de Olavide University, Seville, Spain): Fresh food or dried food? The discourse on the food provisions of the British Army in the West Indies at the turn of the nineteenth century
Sam Goodman (Bournemouth University, UK): “Here comes a barrel of beer at last!”: food and drink as medicine in the Indian Rebellion
Lisa Haushofer (Harvard University, USA): Between food and medicine: digestive physiology and “artificially digested foods”
3.30-5.00pm: Closing remarks followed by reception and launch of digitized thesis of Dr Edward Worth (1676-1733), now held in the Dublin City Library and Archives.
