Changing Beliefs of the Human Body
“Anatomy in Context” symposium Leverhulme-funded one-day workshop, 27th September 2007
Venue: Seminar Room, McDonald Institute, Cambridge

Convenors: Maryon McDonald (Social Anthropology, Cambridge) and Tatjana Buklijas (History and Philosophy of Science (HPS), Cambridge).

Programme
10.30 a.m.- 11.00 a.m. Coffee, McDonald Institute, Cambridge.
11-11.10 a.m. Maryon McDonald (Social Anthropology, Cambridge): Introduction
Session 1  Changing disciplines
Chair: Maryon McDonald (Social Anthropology, Cambridge)
11.10 -11.30 a.m. Jessica Hughes (Classics, Cambridge): Anatomical models from Antiquity: are they ‘Anatomy’?
11.35 - 11.55 a.m. Andy Cunningham (HPS, Cambridge): The Rise and Fall of Anatomy: 1500- 1789

12.00 - 12.20 p.m. Tatjana Buklijas(HPS, Cambridge): Anatomical disciplinary transformations in the first half of the twentieth century

12.25 - 12. 45 p. m. Joanne Wilton (Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge): Modern Anatomy teaching and the HTA in England (title to be confirmed)

Lunch (c.12. 55 – 2.00 p.m)

Session 2  Bodies: donation and modelling

Chair: Tatjana Buklijas (HPS, Cambridge)

2. 00 p.m. – 2.20 p.m. Nick Hopwood (HPS. Cambridge): Models and dissection from La Specola to the Visible Human Project.

2.25 p.m. – 2.45 p.m. Ruth Richardson (HPS, Cambridge): Whole-body donors after Alder Hey.

2.55 p.m. – 3.15 p.m. Jacob Copeman (Social Anthropology, Cambridge): Donating cadavers for dissection: a success story from India.

Tea/Coffee (c. 3.20 p.m – 3.45 p.m.)
Session 3  Sociological and Anthropological reflections

Chair: John Robb (Archaeology, Cambridge)

3.45 p.m. – 4.05 p.m. Alan Petersen and Sam Regan de Bere (Sociology/ Medicine, Plymouth): Sociological reflections on the recent debates about the use or non-use of cadaveric dissection in medical education.

4.10 p.m – 4.30 p.m. Caragh Brosnan (Social and Political Sciences, Cambridge): ‘We don’t know any anatomy’: anatomy teaching as a benchmark of certainty for medical students.

4.35 p.m. – 5.00 p.m. Maryon McDonald (Social Anthropology, Cambridge): Learning about bodies.