BEINECKE RARE BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY
HARVEY CUSHING/JOHN HAY WHITNEY MEDICAL LIBRARY
WHITNEY HUMANITIES CENTER
YALE CENTER FOR BRITISH ART

The purpose of this symposium is to explore medical image-making processes through history and across cultural boundaries. Pictures and texts will be considered side by side. The symposium will compare communication in ancient, medieval, and modern medicine in Eastern and Western medical cultures. Each session will address various aspects of image-making and communication in medicine.

The seven sessions are entitled Images of the Doctor, Doctors' Stories, Imaging Medicine East and West, Literature Visualizing Medicine, Images of the Patient, Imaging Media, and The Art of Display.

Public lectures by Oliver Sacks and Sherwin Nuland, as well as in-focus exhibitions at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, and the Yale Center for British Art will augment The Art of Medicine. For a sample, see Exhibits.

Please note a change in venue: Session I (April 15, 2001) will be held at the Yale Center for British Art (1080 Chapel Street) instead of the Beinecke Library.

Since space is limited, registration in advance is required, and will be on a first come, first-served basis. Check in will take place one hour before the beginning of the first session.

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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 2004

Battell Chapel – College and Elm Streets

4:00 – 5:00 pm  TANNER LECTURE 1

Welcome and Introduction: Maria Rosa Menocal (Yale University)
Oliver Sacks , Journey into Wonder: Reflections on a Chemical Boyhood

THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 2004

Yale Center for British Art – 1080 Chapel Street (venue changed from Beinecke Library)

1:45 – 2:00 pm  Welcome and Introduction: Maria Rosa Menocal (Yale University)

2:00 – 3:30 pm  SESSION 1: IMAGES OF THE DOCTOR

Moderator: Steven Meyer (Washington University, St. Louis)
Vivian Nutton (University College, London), Ancient Doctors and Renaissance Images
Nancy Siraisi (Hunter College, New York), Oratory and Rhetoric in Renaissance Medicine
Peter Pormann (Merton College, Oxford), The Physician and the Other: Images of the Charlatan in Literary Description and Manuscript Illumination

Battell Chapel – College and Elm Streets

4:00 – 5:00 pm  TANNER LECTURE 2

Welcome and Introduction: Sherwin Nuland (Yale University)
Oliver Sacks, Awakenings Revisited

Yale Center for British Art – 1080 Chapel Street

5:15 – 6:45 pm  Reception and Viewing of a select group of anatomical drawings, books, and related materials chosen from the Center's collection of rare books and manuscripts.

Whitney Humanities Center – 53 Wall Street

7:00 pm Screening in the Whitney Humanities Center auditorium of the film Awakenings (1990) in 35 mm

 

FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 2004

Yale School of Medicine: Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library Historical Library - 333 Cedar Street

8:45 – 9:00 am  Welcome and Introduction: R. Kenny Marone (Yale University)

9:00 – 10:30 am  SESSION 2: DOCTORS' STORIES

Moderator: Richard Selzer (Yale University)
John Hollander (Yale University), Rhetoric and Medicine
Peter Jones (King's College, Cambridge), Picturing the Patient in Pre-Modern Case Histories
John Harley Warner (Yale University), Image-Making, Identity, and the Aesthetic Grounding of Modern American Medicine

11:00 am – 12:30 pm  SESSION 3: IMAGING MEDICINE EAST AND WEST

Moderator: Dimitri Gutas (Yale University)
Hans Hinrich Biesterfeldt (University of Bochum), Graeco-Arabic Medicine: Divisions, Lines and Trees
Bridie Andrews (Harvard University), Body Images in Chinese Medicine
Alain Touwaide (Smithsonian Institution), Ancient Manuscripts and New Knowledge: Botany in 14 th Century Byzantium

LIBRARY EXHIBITION: Medicine Caricatured: British Satirical Prints of the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries

Whitney Humanities Center – 53 Wall Street

1:45 – 2:00 pm  Welcome and Introduction: Frank Turner (Yale University)

2:00 – 3:15 pm  SESSION 4: LITERATURE VISUALIZING MEDICINE

Moderator: Frank Turner (Yale University)
Gillian Beer (Yale Center for British Art and Beinecke Fellow), Imagining the Interior
Steven J. Meyer (Washington University, St. Louis), Imaging Without Images: Gertrude Stein and the Medical Eye

3:45 – 5:15 pm  SESSION 5: IMAGES OF THE PATIENT

Moderator: John Harley Warner (Yale University)
Gretchen Worden (Mutter Museum, Philadelphia), From Ruysch to von Hagens: Changing Representations of the Body
Susan Lederer (Yale University), Medicine Comes to Life : American Photojournalism, Doctors, and Disease
Susan Bell (Bowdoin College), Picture This: Visual Narratives of DES Daughters

Law School Auditorium – 127 Wall Street

6:00 – 7:00 pm  PLENARY LECTURE

Welcome and Introduction : John Harley Warner (Yale University)
Sherwin Nuland (Yale University), The Artist Examines the Doctor: a Millennium and a Half of Clinical Observation

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library – 121 Wall Street

7:00 – 7:45 pm  Reception and Viewing

LIBRARY EXHIBITION: The Art of Medicine: Medical Manuscripts from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library

 

SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 2004

Whitney Humanities Center – 53 Wall Street

8:45 – 9:00 am  Welcome and Introduction: Amy Meyers (Yale University)

9:00 – 10:30 am  SESSION 6: IMAGING MEDIA – BOOKS, PRINTS, AND EPHEMERA

Moderator: Peter Jones (King's College, Cambridge)
Sachiko Kusukawa (Trinity College, Cambridge), The Crisis of Description: Uses of Illustrations in 16th Century Learned Books
Susan Wheeler (Yale University), Medicine Caricatured: the Medium and the Message of British Satirical Prints
William Helfand (New York ), Images of Death and Disease from the 16th to the 20th Centuries

11:00 am – 12:30 pm  SESSION 7: THE ART OF DISPLAY

Moderator: Sachiko Kusukawa (Trinity College, Cambridge)
Heinrich von Staden (Princeton University), Knowing and Showing: Greek Medicine and the Culture of Display
Katharine Park (Harvard University), The Uterus Revealed: Dissection on Display in Renaissance Italy
Lucia Dacome (University College, London), Eloquent Anatomies: Shaping the Inner Body in 18th Century Italy