Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Disease, Experiment, and Mechanism

A workshop organized by the Center for the History of Medicine, Indiana University, Bloomington

Saturday, February 24, Goodbody Hall 107

THE REVIVAL OF ANATOMY
9:30 - 10:30 Allen Shotwell
"Rhetorical Strategies of Dedication from Benedetti to Vesalius"

INFANTS AND DISEASE
10:30 - 11:30 Rebecca Wilkin
"Descartes, Louis de la Forge and the Formation of Birthmarks: A Challenge to Mechanism"

11:30-11:45 break

11:45 - 12:45 Kevin Grau
"Scourge and Dissent: Imagining and Healing Rickets in 17th-century English Medicine"

12:45 - 2:00 lunch break

ANATOMICAL EXPERIMENTS
2:00 - 3:00 Karin Ekholm
"Highmore's and Harvey's Experiments on Generation"

3:00 - 4:00 Evan Ragland
"Experimenting with Chymical Animals: Reinier de Graaf and the Pancreatic Juice"

4:00 - 4:30 break

ANATOMISTS AND MATHEMATICIANS
4:30 - 5:30 Nico Bertoloni Meli
"Images as Experiments: Steno's Myology, Viviani, and Galileo"

5:30 - 6:30 Nicole Howard
"Robert Hooke: Anatomy and Medicine between the Royal Society and the College of Physicians"