Seminars are on Tuesdays from 5.00 to 6.30pm in Seminar Room 1. Tea and biscuits are available from 4.40pm. All welcome!
Early Science and Medicine
Organised Dániel Margócsy.
| 16 October | Oded Rabinovitch (Tel-Aviv University) Writing the Scientific Revolution in Louis XIV's France |
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| 6 November | Jessica Hamel-Akré (HPS, Cambridge) From angel food to vegetable diets: medicalizing the feminine appetite in the British 18th century |
| 27 November | Peter Jones (King's College, Cambridge) Missing friars: rethinking late medieval medicine |
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Organised by Mary Brazelton and Nick Hopwood.
| 9 October | Bibia Pavard (Panthéon-Assas University, Paris) 'Living differently from now on': the utopia of abortion activism in 1970s France |
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| 23 October | Gareth Millward (University of Warwick) 'Since the introduction of the Sick Pay Scheme, sick absence has increased': sick pay, sick leave and sick notes in the nationalised industries c. 1948–1959 |
| 13 November | Marissa Mika (University College London) Living archives and dying wards: ethical records preservation at the Uganda Cancer Institute |
Generation to Reproduction
Organised by Nick Hopwood and Dániel Margócsy.
| 30 October | Wendy Kline (Purdue University / University of Strathclyde) Psychedelic birth: bodies, boundaries and consciousness in the 1970s |
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| 20 November | Katherine Harvey (Birkbeck, University of London) From pustulent penises to death by celibacy: thinking about sexual health in medieval Europe |