Photography and Medicine - Center for Cultural Analysis (CCA), Rutgers

In this one-day interdisciplinary symposium, a series of speaker pairs will offer a variety of critical and creative perspectives on the relationship between photography and medicine. Approaching that relationship through the lens of visual culture studies, Professors Sheehan and Sidlauskas will use historical case studies to comment on its development in the US and Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century. Professor Livingston and Eric Gottesman will discuss the political implications of using photography to document health and disease in contemporary African culture. Finally, Robin Glazer will reflect on the role that photographs can play in the lives of American cancer patients and survivors, while Dr. Ana Blohm will explore the artistic, ontological, and ethical questions raised by the photographs she takes of her own patients.

Conference Program:

2:30 pm	Tanya Sheehan, “Photography and Medicine: Forging a Meaningful Relationship”
3:00 pm	Susan Sidlauskas, "The ‘Before and After’ Paradigm in Nineteenth-Century Medical Photography"
3:30 pm	Julie Livingston, “Figuring the Tumor”
4:00 pm	Eric Gottesman, "May the Finest in the World Always Accompany You!: HIV/AIDS and Local Photographic Interventions in Ethiopia, 1999-2009"
4:30 pm	Ana Blohm, "Doctor without Borders? Defining Boundaries in Patient Photography"
5:00 pm	Robin Glazer, "Still Life: Enhancing Clinical Care through Photography"
5:30 pm	Discussion

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