Managed to miss this at #EAHMH2019, but caught it today at #LaunchIMHCHBH - the main lecture theatre at Edgbaston Park Hotel (conference venue) is named after #Quaker, Margery Fry

Final tweet frm #EAHMH2019 - thanks to the whole @UoB_IAHR team who've supported the conference & to our host w the most @reinarzhistory.

It's been an absolute blast to catch up w so many brilliant colleagues - esp team #Cackles :D

Vanessa talking abt the hazards of doing history in public as a woman or taking a stance on feminism or the rights of trans women & non-binary ppl. But it's worth it. It's necessary #EAHMH2019

But: Vanessa asked to present on wmn conducting fieldwork at altitude. Knew of 1, but, echoing discussions of shadow CVs of academic failure, this lecture is abt pushing back against aculturation; finding wmn, yes, but by actively avoiding the old (male) assumptions #EAHMH2019

Vanessa talking abt expectation of anyone not white, able bodied, straight & male, do history of 'ppl like them'. She emphatically wants to focus on men's bodies #EAHMH2019

Final keynote & paper of #EAHMH2019: the excellent @HPS_Vanessa 'Not in public? The challenges of writing women and gender into the (public) history of biomedicine'

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Carried away w paper, so forgot to tweet :s !
@hjpalfreyman talking thru the seeing relationship btwn Jefferson & medical artist Dorothy Davison, working together (kind of!) to create medical illustrations #EAHMH2019

Final paper of panel, fab @hjpalfreyman on 'Surgical sight/artistic eye: illustrating surgery in the mid-20thc', featuring neurosurgeon Geoffrey Jefferson #EAHMH2019 #HistNeuro

Kat underscoring the linkages btwn touch & vision in taking case book photographs & assembling the notes #EAHMH2019

Kat's considering the 'insane body', saying images in case books fluid & difficult to easily understand, & their contemp reading must be pieced together. In published sources, discussions abt photographs & their content is central, incl the 'insane ear' #EAHMH2019 #HistPsych

Beatriz talking abt a standardisation of vision. Arguing both that there wasn't (because of different types of photo techniques), but also that there was because it seems clear there was a shared language between, e.g., wax moulages & tinted photographs #EAHMH2019

Speaking abt the tensions btwn objectivity & the multiplicity of media & images. (Ppl might have a set idea of 19thc med photography, but actually a huge range, incl stereoscopic & tinted microbiology pics) #EAHMH2019

First panel of the day, featuring 3 excellent speakers, opens w the @beastruz speaking abt 'Photographic innovations and the many ways to look at patients' #EAHMH2019

Sexual touch btwn soldiers a feature of #FWW life in the battle zone #EAHMH2019

In the #FWW, 6% of all injuries were to the eyes.

Narrowness of #WW1 trenches led to new sensory experiences: putrid bodies w the 'consistency of camembert cheese' & a stench that lingered #EAHMH2019

Touch. In #WW1 touch saved men - feeling around the battlefield in the dark to avoid craters, bodies, danger #EAHMH2019

Next: taste. Chatting food shortages, w efforts to market turnips as, if heard correctly, East Prussian Pineapple.
[Looking 4ward to Tory rebranding of offal & foreign-sounding swede; Liz Truss might be tasked w this based on her successful* foodstuff speech
*not]
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Next up: smell. Talking thru #FWW poison gas; 1.2m ppl gas injured, w 91000 dying. In #WW2 only the Japanese empire used poison gas on the battlefield. However, the Nazis' T4 & Final Solution murders employed gas, & the smell of burning bodies hung in the air #EAHMH2019

In #SWW #WW2 air raid sirens overwhelmed experiences in many European nations #EAHMH2019

Jutte taking us thru the senses - first sight, now listening. The sound of the #FWW front, w one German commenting that soldiers 'fought with their ears' too. #EAHMH2019 #WW1

Beginning this morning w keynote frm Robert Jutte, 'The senses on the battlefield: from #WW1 to #WW2'

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RAGING after inspirational day - public transport & bloke has just sneezed facing my direction WHEN HE CD HAVE FACED AWAY. Lads lads lads, imposing any of ur flippin bodily expulsions on anyone who hasn't given u permission is not flippin on #TheRebellionSpreads #EAHMH2019

.@harbottlestores gets a well-deserved honorable mention for her excellent book, 'Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum' - congratulations Jen! #EAHMH2019 #HistPsych

Current president for #EAHMH2019, @reinarzhistory addressing the room after the conference dinner & announcing winners for the student presentation & book prize

Speaking now abt someone experiencing pica & finding no 'right place' in the prison system, before concluding #EAHMH2019

There was a cluster of suicides in autumn 1975. By this it was evident Something Was Wrong and the Prisoners' Rights Organisation tried to intercede - peaceful protests led to prison sentences (tho never served) #EAHMH2019

[The next portion of discussion considers suicide and drug use... #EAHMH2019]

Exploring the use of psych to change the prison system as a whole, citing the activities of the Prisoners Union (Jan-Nov 1973) & the Prisoners' Rights Organisation (March 1973 & continuing to work until well after the suppression of the Prisoners' Union) #EAHMH2019

Oisin is talking thru the development of psych services between the 1970s and 80s - and actually there is (was) a significant difference #EAHMH2019