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 Lauren Kassell and Dániel Margócsy.
| 22 October | William Tullett (Anglia Ruskin University) Smell and 18th-century medicine: 'powerful and active atoms'? Schedule note: We will begin with tea at 5pm. The talk and discussion will run from 5.30 to 6.45. |
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| 19 November | Elaine Leong (University College London) Learning medicine by the book: reading and writing surgical manuals in early modern London |
| 3 December | Dror Weil (King's College London) Bodies diverged: cross-cultural translation of physiological knowledge in early modern Eurasia |
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Organised by Jenny Bangham, Nick Hopwood and Mary Brazelton.
| 15 October | Michael Sappol (Uppsala University) Anatomy's photography: objectivity, showmanship and the reinvention of the anatomical image, 1861–1913 Advisory: This presentation will contain historical photographs of anatomized human bodies and body parts. |
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| 5 November | Lara Keuck (Humboldt University, Berlin) Alzheimer's disease: the history of a working title |
| 12 November | Lochlann Jain (Stanford University) In the same vein: the hepatitis B vaccine and America's dirty blood |
Generation to Reproduction
Organised by Nick Hopwood and Lauren Kassell.
| 29 October | Katherine Harvey (Birkbeck, University of London) A question of balance? Thinking about sexual health in medieval Europe |
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| 26 November | Susanne Klausen (Ottawa, Amsterdam and Johannesburg) Reproductive regimes in apartheid South Africa |