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 by Dániel Margócsy.
| 5 February | Hannah Murphy (King's College London) Surface thinking: skin in early modern medicine |
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| 19 February | Anita Guerrini (Oregon State University) Giants and national identity in early modern Europe |
| 12 March | Gabor Gelleri (University of Aberystwyth) Ladies at sea: seasickness and the female body |
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Organised by Jenny Bangham, Mary Brazelton and Nick Hopwood.
| 22 January | Salim Al-Gailani (HPS, Cambridge) Folic acid between science, policy and the market: mainstreaming pre-conceptional vitamins in the 1980s and '90s |
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| 12 February | Elizabeth Hallam (University of Oxford) Anatomy museum on the move |
| 26 February | Mathias Grote (Humboldt University, Berlin) Total knowledge? Handbooks and encyclopedism in the 20th-century life sciences |
Generation to Reproduction
Organised by Nick Hopwood and Dániel Margócsy.
| 29 January | Carolin Schmitz (HPS, Cambridge) From cures to courts of justice: medical encounters, the issue of generation, and social order in early modern Spain |
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| 5 March | Sally Sheldon (University of Kent) Changing understandings of the human fetus over five decades of legal abortion |