Department of History and Philosophy of Science

History of Medicine Seminars

Seminars are on Tuesdays from 5.00 to 6.30pm in Seminar Room 1. Tea and biscuits are available from 4.40pm. All welcome!

Organised by Karin Ekholm, Vanessa Heggie and Elaine Leong.

Lent Term 2012

24 JanuaryYolanda Eraso (University of Oxford)
Imagin(in)g the breast: mammography and breast cancer in the context of South-North American exchanges
14 FebruaryChristelle Rabier (LSE)
Fitting for health: steel-trusses in the enlightened economy of healthcare
21 FebruaryMatthew Smith (University of Strathclyde)
A pre-peanut history of food allergy
6 MarchJennifer Richards (Newcastle University)
Useful books: reading vernacular regimens in 16th-century England