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 Lauren Kassell and Dániel Margócsy.
| 10 October | James Clifton (MFA, Houston) Joachim Wtewael and the human body |
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| 24 October | Maaike van der Lugt (University of Versailles) Individual complexion and personalized care in medieval medicine |
| 21 November | Erica Charters (University of Oxford) Knowing numbers, counting men: paper technology and manpower in the eighteenth century |
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Organised by Mary Brazelton and Nick Hopwood.
| 7 November | Kathleen Vongsathorn (University of Warwick) The place of birth: mothers, midwives, birth attendants, and choices about childbirth in twentieth-century Uganda |
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| 14 November | Stuart Hogarth (Sociology, Cambridge) Regulatory regimes for diagnostic devices |
| 28 November | James Stark (University of Leeds) The cult of youth: rejuvenation in interwar Britain |
Generation to Reproduction
Organised by Nick Hopwood and Lauren Kassell.
| 17 October | Nicole Bourbonnais (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva) Spreading the good news around the world: international family planning prophets in the mid-twentieth century |
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| 31 October | Boyd Brogan (HPS, Cambridge) Generation, demons and disease: rethinking gender in the Denham exorcisms, 1585–86 |