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The conference will open on Tuesday 13 April at 13.50. The last talks will conclude at 15.15 on Thursday 15 April (to be followed by tea). A detailed programme can be downloaded here (pdf).

Principal speakers and titles

  • Derek Bolton (KCL) - “Defining illness in psychiatry and in general medicine”
  • Matthew Broome (Warwick) - "Psychiatry, the medical model and the role of the medical professional"
  • Raffaella Campaner and Maria Carla Galavotti (Bologna) - "Evidence and the assessment of causal relations in the health sciences"
  • K. Codell Carter (Brigham Young University) - “What progress are we now to expect in medicine?”
  • Nancy Cartwright (LSE and UC San Diego) - "The long road from 'it works somewhere' to 'it will work for us'”
  • Sir Iain Chalmers (UK Cochrane Centre) and Ulrich Tröhler (Bern) - “Medical historical textbooks and review articles fail to take account of progress in historical research”
  • Andrew Cunningham (Cambridge) - "The origins of the concept of progress in medicine, ca. 16th and 17th centuries"
  • Bill Fulford (Warwick) - "Neuroscience and values: from theory to practice in mental health"
  • Donald Gillies (UCL) - "Causality in medicine: the case of smoking and heart disease"
  • Sander Greenland (UC Los Angeles) - "How much progress in medicine is illusory?"
  • Ilana Löwy (Inserm, CNRS, Paris-Sud 11) - Prenatal diagnosis: Does the improvement of diagnostic techniques constitute progress?"
  • Mark Parascandola (U.S. National Institutes of Health) - "Epistemic risk: Empirical science and the fear of being wrong"
  • David Wootton (York) - "Telescopes and stethoscopes"
  • Michael Worboys (Manchester) - "Chlamydia: A disease without a history"
  • John Worrall (LSE) - "Evidence in medicine: getting back to the Hill top"

Submitted papers

  • Alessandro Blasimme and Paolo Maugeri - “Modeling Cancer and the Advancement of Molecular Medicine”
  • Pierre-Olivier Méthot - “In defence of evolutionary medicine”
  • Stephen John - “Public trust, public engagement and the concept of medical progress”
  • Christopher Chalmers - “Progress in Psychiatry: Integrating Evolution and Development”
  • Brendan Clarke - “Making Mechanisms: McArdle’s syndrome”
  • Elselijn Kingma - “Health and Disease: beyond the stalemate”
  • Pieter R. Adriaens - “Essentializing mental disorders: DSM-III and the lay public”
  • Tom Sensky - “Personhood, suffering and their relevance to medicine”
  • James A.Marcum - “Progress in medicine: curing disease?”
  • Robin Nunn - “Medicine after placebo”
  • Aleksandra Sojic, Giovanni Boniolo, and Salvatore Pece - “The Dynamics of Biomedical Knowledge as Reflected through the Biomedical Claims: From an Explanatory Gap to Knowledge Discovery - The Case of Breast Cancer”
  • Adam Bostanci - “From RNA interference (RNAi) to RNA Silencing: The Biomedical Significance of Small RNAs and of Sequence-specific Interactions”
  • Staffan Mueller-Wille - “Ludwik Fleck and Thomas S. Kuhn: Two Models of Progress”
  • Havi Carel - “Progress in medicine as increasing subjective wellbeing: How to measure it and does it correlate with objective health?”
  • James Krueger - “Progress in Medicine: Lessons from Disability Studies”
  • Miriam Solomon - “Methodological Progress in Medicine”
  • Kirstin Borgerson - “Progress in Evidence-based Medicine?”
  • Kyra Landzelius - “Rationalizing the Preterm Baby: Progress and Progressions in Neonatology”
  • Jeremy Simon - “Philosophical Accounts of Progress in Medicine: Constructive Realism”
  • Eric W. Boyle - “Progress in Complementary and Alternative Medicine: The Case of CAM and the National Institutes of Health”
  • Andrea Stöckl, Anna Smajdor, and Charlotte Salter - “Empathy and medical progress”
  • Angela Woods - “The disciplinary sublime”
  • Ian Kidd - “Pluralism for Progress: A Critique of ‘Integrative Medicine’”
  • Andrew Turner - “What is the significance of placebo comparison?”
  • Justo Hernandez - “Permanence of Galenism and Medical Advance: an analysis of circulation's discovery”
  • Alex Broadbent - “Epidemiology in court: using general causal claims to prove singular causal claims”
  • Michael Cournoyea - “Symptomatic Assumptions: Examining the Foundations of Evolutionary Medicine”
  • Constance Putnam - “From Medical Information to Medical Knowledge”
  • Les Todres and Kathleen Galvin - “'Mobility-Dwelling': An Existential Theory of Well-being”
  • Jeremy Howick - “Placebo controls: problematic and misleading ‘baseline measure of effectiveness’”
  • Patricia Oakley - “Examining the concept of progress in medicine in the nineteenth century and its relevance for the twenty-first”
  • Raphael Scholl - “Why was Semmelweis’ discovery controversial?”
  • Jan P Vandenbroucke - “Why did numerical reasoning become successful in the second half of the 20th century?”

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