| “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. |