[Commlist] VivaMente Conference 2024 - Call for Papers

VivaMente Conference in the History of Ideas 2024

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*NARRATIO IN MEDICINE AND THE LAW*

*Interpretive and Scientific Knowledge in Medical and Medico-Legal 
Case-Histories *

*from Antiquity to the Renaissance*

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Hybrid Conference

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*24-25 October 2024*

*Domus Comeliana, Pisa*

Organisers:

*Daniel King *(Exeter), *Nephele Papakonstantinou* (Würzburg)

Keynote Speaker:

*Thomas Baier* (Wuerzburg)

Confirmed Speakers:

*Alessandra Quaranta *(Liège), *Nicola Reggiani* (Parma), *Biagio 
Santorelli* (Genova), *Anna Maria Urso* (Messina)

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Contributions are invited for the 2024 /VivaMente Conference in the 
History of Ideas/. This edition will focus on the intersections of 
narrative, rhetorical persuasion, and factual evidence in medical and 
medico-legal case-histories from Antiquity to the Renaissance. Both 
genres of case-histories (or /consilia/) can be traced from the 
Hippocratic /Epidemics /(/e.g./, Ricciardetto 2020), through Roman 
medical-legal practice (Lloyd 2009; Reggiani 2018 with Papakonstantinou 
2023) and Islamic medicine (Alvarez Millan 1999) to the Renaissance 
(/e.g./, Chanielier & Nicoud 2012; Quaranta 2022). They shape, each with 
a different approach, the process of diagnosis, providing persuasive 
accounts of clinical facts and medical truths, as observed or inferred 
from the patients’ symptoms.

The conference will draw upon the approaches developed in the field of 
Narrative Medicine (Hunter 1991; Petridou & Thumiger 2015), and will 
build on recent work done on the role of rhetoric in medicine (/e.g./, 
Petit 2023), to investigate a number of important questions:

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    *how did different forms of medical narrative describe symptoms,
    contextualising them within contemporary medical doctrines?*
 2.
    *by whom were these accounts compiled and for what audiences?*
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    *how did they combine objective observation and subjective
    descriptions of symptoms in compelling accounts of medical truths
    and facts?*
 4.
    *could the parameters of a specific case alter the narrative
    structure of practical knowledge as emerging from the physician’s
    (and the patient’s) perception?*
 5.
    *how could such accounts constitute a source of knowledge for
    evidence used in legal practice?*

By studying both the /longue durée /development of /consilia/ and their 
synchronic relationships, this conference will provide a renewed 
historical perspective on the ways in which medical diagnosis, 
understood as a practical activity, changed over time; and how such 
changes occurred in the adjacent fields of law and medicine.

*APPLICATION PROCESS *

Abstracts of no more than 500 words must be accompanied by a small 
biographical note, and must contain the abstract's relationship to the 
previous literature on the topic (including citations).

Papers will be delivered within a 35-minute time limit and will be 
followed by a 10-minute discussion.

Please send your abstracts to both organisers, at (_D.King /at/ exeter.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(D.King /at/ exeter.ac.uk)>_ (and_nephele.papakonstantinou /at/ uni-wuerzburg.de) 
<mailto:(nephele.papakonstantinou /at/ uni-wuerzburg.de)>_, by *30 May 2024.*

The organisers’ decision will be communicated to the authors of 
abstracts by *15 June 2024.*

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*DEADLINES*

Papers Submission*: 30 May 2024.*

Selected applicants’ confirmation: *15 June 2024*

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*FURTHER INFOS AVAILABLE ON THE CONFERENCE PAGE AT:*

https://csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/vivamente-conferences/2024-narratio-in-medicine-and-the-law/ 
<https://csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/vivamente-conferences/2024-narratio-in-medicine-and-the-law/>

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*WORKS CITED *

C. Alvarez Millan, « Graeco-Roman case histories and their influence on 
Medieval Islamic clinical accounts »,/Society for the History of 
Medicine /12/1(1999) 19-43.

J. Chanelier & M. Nicoud, « Les médecins en justice (Bologne, XIIIe-XIVe 
siècles) », in /Experts et expertises au Moyen Âge. /Consilium quaeritur 
a perito, Paris 2012, 149-160.

K.M. Hunter, /Doctor//’//s Stories: the Narrative Structure of Medical 
Knowledge/, Princeton 1991.

G. Lloyd « Galen's un-Hippocratic case-histories », in Ch. Gill, T. 
Whitmarsh, J. Wilkins (eds.), /Galen and the World of Knowledge, 
/Cambridge 2009, 115-131.

N. Papakonstantinou, « Roman Declamation, Roman Law, and Ancient Legal 
Medicine: the Case of /veneficium/ », /Rivista di diritto romano XXIII, 
n.s. VIII/ (2023) 1-44.

C. Petit, « Rhetoric and Medicine: Introduction », /Rhetorica/ 41/3 
(2023) 219-224.

G. Petridou & Ch. Thumiger (eds.), Homo Patiens. /Approaches to the 
Patient in the Ancient World/, Leiden/Boston 2015.

N. Reggiani, « I papiri greci di medicina come fonti storiche: il caso 
dei rapporti dei medici pubblici nell’Egitto greco-romano », 
/Aegyptus/ 98 (2018) 107-130.

A. Ricciardetto, « La réponse du médecin : les rapports d’inspection 
médicale écrits en grec sur papyrus (I^er -IV^e  siècles) », in M. 
Meeusen (ed.), /Ancient Greek Medicine in Questions and Answers. 
Diagnostics, Didactics, Dialectics /(p. 133-153), Leiden/Boston 2020.

A. Quaranta, « The /Consilia/ by Learned Physicians Pietro Andrea 
Mattioli and Francesco Partini: Dialectic Relations between Doctrine, 
Empirical Knowledge and Use of the Senses in Sixteenth-century Europe », 
/Social History of Medicine/ 35/1 (2022) 20-48.


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