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  SSHM Conference 2012: Emotions, Health, and WellbeingIn conjunction with QMUL’s Centre for the History of the EmotionsQueen Mary, University of London, 10–12 September 2012&#160;&#160;Monday 10 September&#160;9.00       Registration&#160;9.30       Plenary lectureJoanna Bourke (Birkbeck University of London)[Title to be confirmed]&#160;10.45     Coffee&#160;11.00     Panel sessions&#160;Medieval EnglandKatherine Harvey (King’s College London)Episcopal emotions: weeping in the life of the medieval bishopRebecca McNamara (University of Sydney)Fever, madness, anguish: suicide and the emotions in thirteenth-century English legal recordsIoana Balgradean (University of Geneva)Corporeity, emotion, and medieval poetics&#160;Fiction and PhilosophyLina Minou (Loughborough University)Envy as pathology and eighteenth-century fictionNeil MacFarlane (Birkbeck College)Phrenology, mesmerism, and the reptilian personality in Little DorritDemelza Hookway (University of Exeter)John Stuart Mill and the ‘perfect disease’ of sensitiveness&#160;Managing the Emotions in the History of NursingJulie Anderson (University of Kent)‘Suited to Nurse Officers and Men’: character, emotion, and disability in the First World WarRosemary Wall (Imperial College London)Marriages made in Empire: a motivation, recruitment strategy, and retention problem for nursing in the British EmpireNatasha McEnroe (The Florence Nightingale Museum)From personality to profession: emotions running high in the Florence Nightingale Museum&#160;Managing Emotions through Chemistry: Psychoactive Drugs since 1945Matthew Smith (University of Strathclyde)From energising ‘oldsters’ to calming children: Ritalin and the marketing of mental illnessAlison Haggett (University of Exeter)‘Father’s little helper’: the pharmacological treatment of anxiety and depression in post-war men&#160; Children and CancerRobin Rohrer (Seton Hill University)Emotion and the childhood cancer journey in the United States, 1930 to the presentClare Parker (University of Adelaide)                The innocent child: initial responses to the thalidomide tragedyCarsten Timmermann (University of Manchester)‘Just give me the best quality of life questionnaire’: measuring the unmeasurable in cancer chemotherapy&#160;12.30     Lunch&#160;1.30       Panel sessions&#160;Music and EmotionPenelope Gouk (University of Manchester)‘One of the greatest pleasures on earth’: music and wellbeing in the EnlightenmentWiebke Thormählen (University of Southampton)Lamenting at the piano: domestic music-making, wellbeing and mental health in eighteenth-century BritainJames Kennaway (Durham University)Animal spirits, tubes and vibrating chords: models of nervous function and theories of music and emotion in eighteenth-century aesthetics and medicine&#160;Hospital SettingsMatthew Newsom Kerr (Santa Clara University)Public sphere, public’s fear: London isolation hospitals and the local politics of resistance, 1870–1900Michael Brown (University of Roehampton)A theatre of emotions: compassion and dispassion in early nineteenth-century surgeryJon Arrizabalaga (Spanish National Research Council, Barcelona) and Guillermo Sánchez-Martínez (Navarra Public University)Caring for wounded soldiers’ emotional wellbeing: humanitarian relief in the Spanish Second Carlist War (1872–76)&#160;Wellbeing in the Nineteenth and Twentieth CenturiesJanet Greenlees (Glasgow Caledonian University)To provide ‘social services irrespective of class, creed or colour’: the Church of Scotland and the politics of wellbeing, c.1900–70Petteri Pietikainen (University of Oulu)From politicization to individualization of wellbeing in Finland, c.1970–2000Annelie Drakman (Uppsala University)Swedish provincial doctors’ reports of emotional hindrances for improving the peasantry’s health in the nineteenth century&#160;Feeling FemaleKatherine Angel (University of Warwick)Post-feminist ontologies? Female sexual dysfunction, 1960–presentLesley Hall (Wellcome Library)‘Sentimental follies’ or ‘instruments of tremendous uplift’? Contrasting views of women’s same-sex relationships in interwar BritainMartha Kirby (University of Glasgow)Feeling fat: medical treatment of obesity and feminist cultural theory, 1945–90&#160;Affect: The Ghost in the MachineMatei Iagher (University College London)‘The Emperor’s New Clothes?’: Pathologies of religious affect in the French psychology of religion (1901–38)Sarah Chaney (University College London)On the borderland: affect and attention-seeking in hysterical malingeringAndreas Sommer (University College London)Exorcising the ghost from the machine: affect, emotion, and the enlightened naturalization of the ‘poltergeist’Sarah Marks (University College London)‘The Golem made real’: cybernetics, automatic machines and the reinterpretation of affect in Cold War Czechoslovakia&#160;3.00       Tea&#160;3.30       Panel sessions&#160;Medieval PassionsPaola Baseotto (Insubria University)Plague epidemics and emotion in early modern EnglandKirsi Kanerva (University of Turku)Bodily disturbances: emotion and disease in medieval IcelandFernando Salmón (University of Cantabria)Joy as a therapeutic asset in medieval medicine&#160;Medical Training and PracticeTricia Close-Koenig (University of Strasbourg)Supply and demand. The economic history of a medical school pathological anatomy laboratorySejal Patel (National Institute of Health)Social cohesion and social support: comprehensive medicine and the re-formulation of general practice in the United States, 1950 to 1970Laura Kelly (National University of Ireland, Galway)Fear in the dissecting room: anatomy dissections and student experience at Irish universities in the early twentieth century&#160;The Boundaries of the Family: Emotions and Wellbeing in Post-War BritainAngela Davis (University of Warwick)Promoting physical health and emotional wellbeing: childcare practice in local health authority day nurseries after World War TwoLaura King (University of Warwick)Falling in love at first sight: masculinity, fatherhood, and childbirth in Britain in the post-war periodClaire Sewell (University of Warwick)‘Schizophrenia has a “shattering effect” on families’: the emotional responses of familial carers of schizophrenia in post-war Britain&#160;Locating Emotions in the Body: Transnational Perspectives on the Treatment of Emotional Disorders in East Asian MedicineVolker Scheid (University of Westminster)Depression, constraint, and the liver: (dis)assembling the treatment of emotion-related disorders in Chinese medicineKeiko Daidoji (University of Keio)Are emotions tangible? The conceptual and therapeutic transformation of emotion-related disorders in Japanese Kampo medicineEric Karchmer (University of Westminster)The excitations and suppressions of the times: locating emotional disorders in the liver in modern Chinese medicineSoyoung Suh (Dartmouth College)Korean doctors between hwa-byung (fire-illness) and depression, 1930–2010&#160;&#160;7.00       Reception at the Wellcome Library, London&#160;&#160;Tuesday 11 September&#160;9.00       Panel sessions&#160;Early Modern Passions ILauren Johnson (Past Pleasures Ltd.)‘Mirth is one of the chiefest things of Physick’: the importance of laughter to the health of Henry VIII’s courtHanako Endo (Jissen Women’s University)Bloodletting and the control of passion in Shakespeare’s Julius CaesarSusan Mills (Grant MacEwan University)‘A fever caused by sadness’: a ‘mechanist’s’ psychosomatic medicine in the 1643–49 correspondence between René Descartes and Princess Elisabeth&#160;DisabilitiesGraeme Gooday (University of Leeds) and Karen Sayer (Leeds Trinity University College)                ‘Out in the cold’: hearing loss, technology, and the politics of wellbeingEmily Andrews (University of Warwick)‘Freed from thraldom to passion’: emotion and old age nineteenth-century BritainPaul van Trigt (VU University Amsterdam)Normal or exceptional? The emotional and sensitive blind in modern history&#160;Military EmotionsKellen Kurschinski (McMaster University)Restoring body and mind: managing the emotions of disabled Canadian soldiers through occupational therapy and physical rehabilitation, 1914–23Edgar Jones (King’s College London)The mystery of medically unexplained symptoms: the soldier’s body as proxy for distressNiklaus Ingold (University of Zurich)Light showers in the dark: UV radiation, physical culture, and the wellbeing of the Wehrmacht in the Norwegian Arctic during World War Two&#160; Emergent Psychiatric CategoriesChris Millard (Queen Mary, University of London)                ‘Stress’, ‘distress’, and suicide attempts: 1960s psychiatry and an emotional continuumFelicity Callard (Durham University)From agoraphobia to panic disorder: disputes over anxiety in Anglo-American psychiatry from the 1960s to the 1980sEmilia Musumeci (University of Catania)Lacking in empathy: from morally insane to psychopath&#160;Fertility and MotherhoodBarbara Brookes (University of Otago)Managing parental emotions: disability in the new bornGayle Davis (University of Edinburgh)Desperately seeking motherhood: medical responses to the infertile patient in mid twentieth-century ScotlandJulianne Weis (University of Oxford)Maternal wellbeing: conflicted origins of labour pain&#160;10.30     Coffee&#160;11.00     Plenary lectureWilliam Reddy (Duke University)Striving to feel: the centrality of effort in the history of emotions&#160;12.15     Lunch&#160;1.30       Panel sessions&#160;Early Modern Passions IIElena Carrera (Queen Mary, University of London)Provoking anger to restore health: medieval and Renaissance medical viewsTessa Storey (Royal Holloway, University of London)‘It is the duty of the diligent doctor to investigate just how deeply this passion has penetrated his soul’: managing melancholy in late sixteenth-century RomeMarlen Bidwell-Steiner (University of Vienna)Bespoke Spanish passions in the early modern period&#160;Death and Grief: Ireland, 1641–1936Clodagh Tait (Mary Immaculate College)‘Whereat his wife tooke great greef &#38; died’: dying of sorrow and anger in seventeenth-century IrelandDavid Butler (University of Limerick)Memorialising the Irish abroad: obituaries in nineteenth-century Irish newspapersCiara Breathnach (University of Limerick) and Eunan O’Halpin (Trinity College Dublin)Concealing pain: evidence from coroners’ report of the infant dead, 1919–36 Psychiatry and PatientsVicky Long (Glasgow Caledonian University)                Resettling the long-stay patient into social life: psychiatric rehabilitation in post-war BritainJennifer Walke (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)He’s not the Messiah? Diagnosing the therapeutic communityHazel Morrison (University of Glasgow)Moral imbecility and patient narratives within the confines of 1920s Gartnavel (Glasgow Royal Mental Hospital)&#160;SubjectivitiesRosa García-Orellán (Navarra Public University)From ‘death foretold’ to ‘death unspoken’Kathryn Ecclestone (University of Birmingham)Psychologising the ‘vulnerable’ human subject? Shifts and continuities in political discourses of human behaviour change and emotional wellbeingAdrian Howe (Queen Mary, University of London)Othello and his syndrome Picturing EmotionElena Bonesi (University of Bologna)Plague in art: some notes on the iconography of the sick bodySusanna Ferlito (University of Minnesota)Photographing female resentment: Countess Virginia Verasis di Castiglione’s clinical gazeAnja Laukötter (Max Planck Institute for Human Development)The politics of emotions in the medium of film&#160;3.00       Tea&#160;3.30       Panel sessions&#160;Emotional BehavioursHannah Newton (University of Cambridge)‘Like rogues out of gaol’: spiritual responses to recovery from illness in early modern EnglandLindsey Fitzharris (Queen Mary, University of London)Cutting through the fear: the criminal dissected, 1751–1832Catherine Marshall (University of Sheffield)Emotion and verbally abusive behaviour in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England&#160;Emotions as Collective ExperiencesNike Fakiner (Spanish National Research Council, Madrid)Morality and the obscene effects of Zeiller’s anatomical models in the context of their public displayFanny Brotons (Spanish National Research Council, Madrid)Shame, guilt and hope(lessness) in Spanish cancer sufferers from the second half of the nineteenth centuryJuan Manuel Zaragoza (independent scholar)Love, guilt, and resentment: marriage, illness, and the disturbing experience of care (1890–1910)&#160;Public Health and the Management of FearPatricia Marsh (Queen’s University, Belfast)Belfast’s own ‘Typhoid Mary’: the control of healthy typhoid ‘carriers’ in BelfastMark Honigsbaum (Zurich University)‘A sense of dread is very general’: the First World War, the ‘Spanish’ flu, and the Northcliffe pressAlexia Moncrieff (University of Adelaide)Disease and emotion in the Australian Imperial Force in the First World War Extra-European ContextsRampaul Chamba (Open University)The inter-generational transmission of psychic trauma: black African-Caribbean responses to ethnic disparities in schizophreniaAyesha Nathoo (University of Cambridge)Appealing for humanity: the production and reception of the Disasters Emergency Committee’s 2011 East Africa crisis appealArnel Joven (University of the Philippines)‘The will to live!’ and other miracle cures: emotional support in the healing and survival among lowland civilians in the Philippines during the Japanese occupation period, 1941–45&#160;Homesick MenThomas Dodman (Boston College)                Nostalgia: a deadly emotion at the time of the French RevolutionDavid Anderson (Swansea University)                Home is where the heart is: nostalgia as an emotional disease during the American Civil WarSusan Matt (Weber State University)The transformation of nostalgia in the US Armed Forces, 1865–1945&#160;5.15       Plenary lectureMark Jackson (University of Exeter)The secret places of the heart&#160;6.30       Conference reception and banquet&#160;Wednesday 12 September&#160;9.00       Panel sessions Passions and the peopleArto Ruuska (University of Helsinki)Thomas Trotter on the role of sociality and social passions in the development and treatment of the habit of drunkennessMariana Saad (Queen Mary, University of London)‘To subjugate passion’ or ‘to restore harmony in the organs of sentiment’? The unspoken opposition between Pinel and CabanisRoss Macfarlane (Wellcome Library)Blue beads, barrow boys, and bronchitis: negotiating the emotions in Edward Lovett’s folklore collection&#160;Crime and PunishmentWillemijn Ruberg (Utrecht University)Emotional tactics. Affect and Dutch forensic medicine in the nineteenth centuryVictoria Bates (University of Exeter)‘Perfectly collected’: emotional responses to sexual crime, 1850–1914Jade Shepherd (Queen Mary, University of London)‘The fiendish rack of jealousy’: murder, insanity, and Broadmoor in Victorian England&#160; Public Health, Mental HealthRob Boddice (Freie Universität, Berlin)Tyranny of compassion? The moral economy of vaccination in Britain, 1867–98Sun-Young Park (Harvard University)Rehabilitating minds and bodies: emotions, hygiene, and school architecture in Paris, 1815–48Åsa Jansson (Queen Mary, University of London)‘Mental pain’ and ‘depression of spirits’: the standardisation of biomedical melancholia in Victorian medicine&#160;Bodily Health and WellbeingStephanie Snow (University of Manchester)Individual experience, public activism, and stroke, 1990s–2000sAntje Kampf and Jeannette Madarász-Lebenhagen (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)Medico-politics of gendered wellbeing: the case of cardiovascular prevention in East and West Germany, 1949–69Leonie De Goei  (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts &#38; Sciences)Getting to grips with emotions in the sixties. Letters to Doctor Trimbos.&#160;10.30     Coffee&#160;11.00     Plenary sessionChaired by Fay Bound Alberti (Wellcome Trust)Roundtable: Impact and Public Engagement&#160;12.30     Lunch&#160;1.30       Panel sessions&#160;Networks and MarketsAnna Maerker (King’s College London)From fear to fun: emotions, crowds, and the marketing of anatomical modelsElizabeth Connolly (University of Adelaide)Will Atkins and the ‘envious’ people who ‘hate’ his medicinesJennifer Hillman (University of York)Spiritual friendships and penitential angst in seventeenth-century female letters From Melancholy and Despair to Depression: Continuity and ChangeDavid Lederer (National University of Ireland,Maynooth)Mood disorders in early modern EuropeGeorgina Laragy (National University of Ireland,Maynooth)War, emotion, and suicide in the twentieth centuryMaria Teresa Brancaccio (University of Maastricht)The management of sadness: classifications of depressive disorders in the twentieth century&#160;Comparative PerspectivesDan Malleck (Brock University)Feeling no pain? The changing language of drug and alcohol habituation in the Anglo-American world, 1867–1908Martin Messika (University Paris I Sorbonne/University of Quebec)Immigrants’ ‘emotions’ and social work: North African Jews in Paris and Montreal compared (1956–76)&#160;PsychosomaticsKatherine Foxhall (King’s College London)Emotions in the history of migraineBettina Hitzer (Max Planck Institute for Human Development)Cancer and the feeling body. Psychosomatic explanations in post-1945 Germany and the United StatesValerie Harrington (University of Manchester)Irritable mind or irritable bowel? The role of emotion in Irritable Bowel Syndrome&#160;2.00 onwards    Optional museum visits&#160;3.00        SSHM AGM; and European Association for the History of Medicine and Health (EAHMH) committee meetings&#160;4.30       End of conference&#160;&#160;[programme last updated 6 July 2012]&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;