Seminars, funded by Wellcome, 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 by Dániel Margócsy.
| 18 February | Eric Jorink (Huygens Institute and Leiden University) TBC |
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| 3 March | Anne Goldgar (King's College London) Affect and empiricism in the early modern Arctic |
| 10 March | Anna Marie Roos (University of Lincoln) The first Egyptian society |
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Organised by Jenny Bangham, Mary Brazelton and Nick Hopwood.
| 21 January | Hilary Smith (University of Denver and Needham Research Institute) The Chinese calorie: nutrition science in early 20th-century China |
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| 4 February | Sarah Marks (Birkbeck, University of London) 'You have to incorporate the client's belief system... even when it is the opposite of your own': CBT and psychotherapy in Ghana since 1974 |
| 25 February | Jenny Bangham (HPS, Cambridge) Serological surveillance: transfusion, genetics and rare blood in postwar Britain |
Generation to Reproduction
Organised by Nick Hopwood.
| 14 January | Laura Kelly (University of Strathclyde) The contraceptive pill in Ireland: activism, women's agency and doctors' authority in the 1960s and 1970s |
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| 11 February | Elena Serrano (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) A good match: gender and the physiology of love in 18th-century Spain |