I, London 1996: Medicine and Health

30 July 1996 (Tuesday)

9.30-9.35 Robert Bud, Welcome and Introduction

9.35 - 12.30 Three papers dealing with the history of medical technology, specifically based upon objects

Helmuth Trischler, Chairman

Pat Gossel, NMAH Packaging for the Pill

Ghislaine Lawrence, SM Technology for Cardiac Surgery

Johannes Abele, The Geiger Mueller Counter

Robert Friedel and Robert Fox Commentators

12.30 - 1.30 Lunch (provided in conference location)

1.30 - 4.30 Six accounts of the historical meanings of discrete objects which carry particular significance

Robert Bud, Chairman

Juergen Teichmann:Objects, experiment and myth

Carlene Stephens:The Unvarnished Truth:learning from an eighteenth-century blue-lacquer clock

Michael Wright: The eighteenth-century Automaton Lathe

Jobst Broelmann: Network of Artefacts

Jon Eklund: The Rolls and the Morris Minor: Hardy's GE 1 vs Beckman's DU

Tim Boon: Film as artefact

4.30 - 5.00 Tea

5.00 - 6.30 Multimedia, Networks and CD ROMS as interpretive tools

Barney Finn, Chairman

Gudrun Wolfschmidt: Multimedia prospects of the Deutsches Museum

Tim Lenoir: Networked scholarly work spaces in the History of Technology

6.30 Reception in Science Museum

7.30 Dinner

31 July (Wednesday)

9.00 - 11.00 Exhibit Reviews and Curatorial Presentation on recent galleries

Barney Finn, Chairman

Ghislaine Lawrence: The Health Matters exhibit at the Science Museum

Elisabeth Vaupel: Commentator on Health Matters

Helmuth Trischler: The new Deutsches Museum in Bonn

Art Molella: Commentator on DM in Bonn

11.00-11.30 William Pretzer: The role of exhibit reviews

11.30 - 12.30 General Discussion