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Participants
Chemistry,
Medicine and Crime: Mateu Orfila (1787-1853) and his times
Maó,
19th-20th March, 2004.
| José
Ramón Bertomeu Sánchez teaches history of science at
the University
of Valencia (Spain). His Ph.D. focussed on the Spanish
science during
the Napoleonic wars. He has written several papers on
topics related
to nineteenth-century medical chemistry, chemical
classifications
and textbooks. He has recently edited a collective book
on scientific
instruments (with Antonio García Belmar): Opening black
boxes: Scientific
Instruments at the University of Valencia, Valencia,
Valencia Univ.
Press, 2002, (texts in Spanish and English). He is also
co-author
-with Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Antonio García-
Belmar, of a
book on French chemistry textbooks (La naissance d'une
science des
manuels (1789-1852), Paris, Editions des Archives
Contemporaines,
2003). |
Address:
Departament
d'Història de la Ciència i Documentació, Facultat de
Medicina, Blasco
Ibañez, 17, 46010-València (SPAIN).
Tf.
+ 96 3864164,
Fax + 96 3864091.
E-mail:
Jose.R.Bertomeu@uv.es
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| Ian
A. Burney is Wellcome Research Lecturer at the Centre
for the
History of Science, Technology and Medicine University of
Manchester.
He has published several papers on nineteenth century
British legal
medicine and expert knowledge. His most recent books are
Bodies of
Evidence: Medicine and the Politics of the English
Inquest, 1830-1926
(Baltimore and London, The Johns Hopkins University
Press, 2000) and
The Crime of Civilization: Poison, Detection, and the
Victorian Imagination,
Manchester University Press/Rutgers University Press.
(forthcoming,
2004). |
Address:
Centre
for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine,
Mathematics
Tower, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL,
UK,
Phone:
0161 443-1664,
E-mail:
ian.burney@man.ac.uk
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| Ana
Carneiro is Assistant Professor at the New University
of Lisbon
where she teaches history of science. She is a founding
member of
STEP – Science and Technology in the European Periphery
group. She
has contributed papers on the history of chemistry and of
nineteenth-century
science in Portugal. Together with Ana Simões and Maria
Paula Diogo,
she has recently edited the book Travels of Learning. A
Geography
of Science in Europe (Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic
Publishers, 2003)
and two books about the Portuguese naturalist Correia da
Serra: Natural
and Historical Itineraries and Botanical Investigations
(Porto Editora,
2003, in Portuguese). She is presently working on the
history of the
Geological Survey of Portugal. |
Address:
SACSA,
History of Science Unit, Faculty of Science and
Technology, New
University of Lisbon, 2825 114 Monte de Caparica,
Portugal
E-mail:
amoc@netcabo.pt
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| Frédéric
Chauvaud, professeur d'histoire contemporaine à
l¹Université de
Poitiers. Responsable de l'équipe conflictuosité
(GERHICO), membre
titulaire du CTHS, a publié une douzaine d'ouvrages et
une soixantaine
d'articles, dont un grand nombre consacrés à la médecine
légale et
à l¹expertise judiciaire, notamment : Les experts du
crime. La médecine
légale en France au XIXe siècle, (Paris, Aubier, Coll.
historique,
2000, 301 p.). ; Histoire de l¹expertise et des experts
de 1790 à
1944 (à paraître en 2004 Rennes, PUR) ; - "Le corps dans
tous ses
états", (1998) ; "Les experts judiciaires au XIXe
siècle : un groupe
social invisible en quête de reconnaissance"
(1999) ; "Râles des moribonds
et cris "post mortem" au XIXe siècle. La déposition des
victimes de
mort violente" (2001) ; "Le prétoire, la monomanie et
l¹expertise
judiciaire : la difficile naissance des "experts de
l¹âme" (1791-1832)"-
(2001). Il travaille actuellement sur l¹histoire de la
médecine légale
et sur l¹histoire de la justice. |
Address:
Université
de Poitiers-UFR SHA, Département d¹histoire, 8 rue
Descartes, 86022
Poitiers cedex.
E-mail
: Frederic.Chauvaud@wanadoo.fr
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| Anne
Crowther is Professor of
Social History
and Director of the Centre for the History of Medicine at
the University
of Glasgow. Together with Brenda White, she has published
a number
of works on the development of Scottish forensic medicine
in the 19th
century, particularly: On Soul and Conscience, the
Medical Expert
and Crime; 150 Years of Forensic medicine in Glasgow
(1988).
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Address:
Centre
for the History of Medicine, University of Glasgow, 5
University
Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ,
Phone:01413306071.
E-mail:
A.Crowther@socsci.gla.ac.uk
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| Antonio
García Belmar teaches
history of
science at the University of Alicante (Spain). The role
of travels
as means of scientific communication, the changes in the
tools and
practices of the teaching of chemistry and the
conservation and diffusion
of scientific heritage are the three main domains of his
researches
and publications (Nombrar la materia. Una introducción
histórica a
la terminología química (Barcelona, Serbal, 1999) and
Opening black
boxes: Scientific Instruments at the University of
Valencia (Valencia,
Valencia Univ. Press, 2002) in collaboration with José
Ramón Bertomeu,
and La naissance d'une science des manuels (1789-1852)
(Paris, Editions
des Archives Contemporaines, 2003) in collaboration with
José Ramón
Bertomeu and Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent).
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Address:
Departament
de Salut Pública, Campus de Sant Vicent del Raspeig,
Ap. 99- E-03080-ALACANT,
E-mail:
belmar@ua.es.
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| Ursula
Klein is since July 1998 director of an independent
research group
at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
(Berlin). She
was previously resident senior fellow at the Dibner
Institute for
the History of Science and Technology (1997-1998) and
visiting research
scholar at Harvard University, Department for the History
of Science
(1996-1998). She has published several papers about the
history of
chemical affinity, organic chemistry and the spread and
uses of Berzelian
formulae. She has edited Tools and Modes of
Representation in the
Laboratory Sciences. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2001. Her most
recent book
is Experiments, Models, Paper Tools: Cultures of Organic
Chemistry
in the Nineteenth Century. Stanford: University Press,
2003. Since
2002 she is member of the editorial board of Ambix.
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Address:
Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte.
Wilhelmstraße 44
10117 Berlin.
E-mail:
klein@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
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| Àlvar
Martínez Vidal is lecturer in History of Medicine at
the Autonomous
University of Barcelona, Spain. He has studied some
issues of the
so-called Spanish novator movement, from neuroanatomical
ideas to
court medicine, in his books Neurociencias y revolución
científica
en España (Madrid, 1989), and El nuevo sol de la medicina
en la Ciudad
de los Reyes (Zaragoza, 1992). With María Luz López
Terrada he coordinated
the monographic volumes devoted by the journal Dynamis to
the Royal
Court of the Protomedicato (1996), and to the reality of
medical practice
in Early Modern Spain (2002). And with José Pardo Tomás
(Barcelona,
CSIC), he is currently preparing a paper about anatomical
theatres
during the same scenario and period, and editing the
correspondence
of Juan Muñoz y Peralta (c.1655-1746), the first
president of the
Regia Sociedad de Medicina de Sevilla. |
Address:
Centre
d'Estudis d'Història de les Ciències (CEHIC) Facultat
de Ciències
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 08193 Bellaterra
(Barcelona) Spain
Email:
Alvar.Martinez.Vidal@uab.es
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| Agustí Nieto-Galan is a History
of Science lecturer at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain).
Following degrees in both chemistry and history, he took his PhD
in the History of Science at the Universitat de Barcelona in 1994,
and held postdoctoral positions in the Modern History Faculty,
University of Oxford, and the CRHST/ "La Villete", Paris. His
research is focused mainly on the history of chemical technologies
in Britain, France, and Spain in the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries. Among his publications, it is worth mentioning: Robert Fox
and Agustí Nieto-Galan (eds.) Natural Dyestuffs and Industrial
Culture in Europe, 1750-1880. Science History Publications. Canton
MA, 1999; Agustí Nieto-Galan, Colouring textiles. A History of
Natural Dyestuffs in Industrial Europe. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Dordrecht 2001. |
Address:
Centre
d'Estudis d'Història de les Ciències (CEHIC) Facultat
de Ciències
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 08193 Bellaterra
(Barcelona) Spain
Email:
Agusti.Nieto@uab.es
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| María
José Ruiz Somavilla is lecturer in History of Science
at the University
of Malaga, Spain. She teaches History of Medicine and
Introduction
to Science and Technology. She has studied the role of
the Société
de chimie médicale in the institutionalisation of medical
chemistry
in France. Another line of research she has pursued is
the analysis
of hygiene in the modern world. She has published several
works on
the subject, including El cuerpo limpio: análisis de las
prácticas
higiénicas en la España del mundo moderno, siglos XVI y
XVII (Málaga,
1993). The construction of medical science from a gender
perspective
and the genderisation of health care activities are also
major issues
of her research work and publications. |
Address:
Historia
de la Ciencia. Facultad de Medicina. Campus de
Teatinos. 29080,
Málaga (Spain).
E-mail:
rsomavilla@uma.es
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| Brenda
White is a Glasgow University research associate. Her
major interest
and publications address nineteenth century Scottish
legal medicine.
She has an entry for Robert Christison in the forthcoming
(2004) New
Dictionary of National Biography, OUP. |
Address:
Centre
for the History of Medicine, University of Glasgow, 5
University
Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ
E-mail:
bmtwhite@ecosse.net
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