History of Medicine: past events

Public lectures

• Recipes to Improve Your Love Life: Advice from the Eighteenth Century
  Lisa Smith (University of Essex), 31 March 2016
• After IVF: The Reproductive Turn in Social Thought
  Inaugural lecture by Professor Sarah Franklin (Department of Sociology), 30 October 2013
• Born to Rule: Royal Births in Tudor and Stuart England
  Peter Jones (King's College, Cambridge) and Mary Fissell (Johns Hopkins University), 18 and 25 June 2013

Exhibitions

• CASEBOOKS: Six Contemporary Artists and an Extraordinary Medical Archive
  Ambika P3, University of Westminster, March to April 2017
• Books and Babies: Communicating Reproduction
  Cambridge University Library, July to December 2011

Reproduction on Film

• Sex, Secrets and Lies
  Fifth 'Reproduction on Film' series, February to March 2016
• Outlaws
  Fourth 'Reproduction on Film' series, February to March 2015
• Making Babies
  Third 'Reproduction on Film' series, February to March 2013
• Monstrosity
  Second 'Reproduction on Film' series, February to March 2012
• Reproductive Dystopias
  First 'Reproduction on Film' series, March 2011

Workshops and conferences

• The Contested History of Hormone Pregnancy Tests
  27 January 2017
• Reproductive Politics in France and Britain
  5–7 September 2016
• Sex, Disease and Fertility in History
  28–30 September 2015
• Reproduction on Film
  23–25 September 2015
• Con/Tested: Sperm Science, Sterility and Masculinity
  11–12 September 2014
• Cities and Towns as Epidemiological Drivers: Emerging Issues in Urban Historical Demography
  17–18 March 2014
• Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reproduction 9
  15 November 2013
• Making Love, Making Gender, Making Babies in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s
  6–7 September 2013
• In/Fertility and Sacred Space: From Antiquity to the Early Modern
  15–16 July 2013
• Notebooks, Medicine and the Sciences in Early Modern Europe
  12–13 July 2013
• Generation and Reproduction in Medieval Europe
  8 December 2012, preceded by a lecture by Marianne Elsakkers (Utrecht) on 7 December
• Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reproduction 8
  23 November 2012
• Reproducing China: Childbirth, One Child, and Beyond
  13–14 July 2012
• Making Human Heredity: Populations and Public Health in the Postwar Era
  28–30 June 2012
• Transforming Pregnancy Since 1900
  29–30 March 2012
• Communicating Reproduction
  5–6 December 2011
• Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reproduction 7
  18 November 2011
• Alchemy and Medicine from Antiquity to the Enlightenment
  22–24 September 2011
• Leprosy, Language and Identity in the Medieval World
  12–13 April 2011
• Reproduction and the Sciences in Cambridge
  8 April 2011
• Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reproduction 6
  12 November 2010
• Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reproduction 5
  30 October 2009
• Seriality and Scientific Objects in the Age of Capital and Empire, 1848–1919
  22–23 April 2009
• Ancient Greek and Roman Scientific, Medical and Technical Writing
  21 March 2009
• Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reproduction 4
  14 November 2008
• Seriality and Scientific Objects in an Age of Revolution, 1780–1848
  16–17 June 2008
• Ancient Greek and Roman Medical and Scientific Writing
  15 March 2008
• The 'Missing Link': Medicine in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
  8 March 2008
• Secrets and Knowledge: Medicine, Science and Commerce, 1500–1800
  15–16 February 2008
• Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reproduction 3
  16 November 2007
• Cases in Science, Medicine and the Law
  20–21 April 2007
• PhD Workshop on Medieval and Early Modern Science and Medicine
  23 March 2007
• Interdisciplinary Workshops on Reproduction 1 & 2
  17 November 2006 and 2 March 2007
• Temporalizing the Great Chain of Being: A Reappraisal After 70 Years
  16 January 2007
• Astrology and the Body, 1100–1800
  8–9 September 2006
• Science and Medicine in the Multinational Empires of Central and Eastern Europe
  23 June 2006
• Free School Lane Workshop on Reproduction
  17 October 2005
• Between the Farm and the Clinic: Agriculture and Reproductive Technology in the Twentieth Century
  29 April 2005

Festival of Ideas events

• Should We Be Having Babies at 20?
  21 October 2015
• Is Menstruation Healthy?
  22 October 2014
• Can Europe Reproduce Itself? Debating Europe's Fertility
  28 October 2013
• Forging Frontiers in Classical Medicine: Exploring the Body
  Lecture by Rebecca Flemming, 26 October 2013
• Debating Reproduction: Hospital Birth
  1 November 2012
• Debating Reproduction: IVF
  20 October 2011

Wellcome Lectures

• Nineteenth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
  Pablo F. Gómez (University of Wisconsin–Madison): 'Slave trading and the imagination of the quantifiable body in the early modern South Atlantic', 8 February 2024
• Eighteenth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
  He Bian (Princeton University): 'Live, and let live: medical recipes and technique of the socialized self across the Ming-Qing transition', 26 January 2023
• Seventeenth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
  Gabriela Soto Laveaga (Harvard University): 'Seeds, a dying river, and an experiment station: re-examining 1960s global solutions to hunger from Sonora, Mexico', 20 January 2022
• Sixteenth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
  Sasha Turner (Johns Hopkins University): 'Doctors v. midwives: Caribbean medical encounters in the age of pronatal abolition', 11 February 2021
• Fifteenth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
  Sarah Richardson (Harvard University): 'The maternal imprint: gender, heredity and the biosocial body', 13 February 2020
• Fourteenth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
  Marta Hanson (Johns Hopkins University): 'Heaven and Earth are within one's grasp: the healer's body-as-technology in classical Chinese medicine', 17 January 2019
• Thirteenth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
  Alisha Rankin (Tufts University): 'Poison trials, panaceas and proof: debates about testing and testimony in early modern European medicine', 1 March 2018
• Twelfth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
  Alexandra Minna Stern (University of Michigan): 'Eugenic sterilization in California: from demographic analysis to digital storytelling', 24 November 2016
• Eleventh Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
  Michael Stolberg (University of Würzburg): 'Curing diseases and exchanging knowledge: sixteenth-century physicians and their female patients', 14 January 2016
• Tenth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
  Rebecca Flemming (Classics, Cambridge): 'One-seed, two-seed, three-seed? Reassessing ancient theories of generation', 15 January 2015
• Ninth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
  Malcolm Nicolson (University of Glasgow): 'The clinic of the birth: obstetric ultrasound, medical innovation and the clinico-anatomical project', 16 January 2014
• Eighth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
  Maaike van der Lugt (Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7 / Institut Universitaire de France): 'Generatio: medieval debates about procreation, heredity and "bioethics"', 17 January 2013
• Seventh Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
  Staffan Müller-Wille (University of Exeter): 'Revisiting the Mendelian revolution', 19 January 2012
• Sixth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
  Mary Fissell (Johns Hopkins University): 'Encountering Aristotle's Masterpiece, or how to find a racy book about reproduction', 20 January 2011
• Fifth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
  Angus McLaren (University of Victoria): 'Divorcing sex and reproduction: the discussion of artificial insemination in Britain, 1918–1948', 3 December 2009
• Fourth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
  Rayna Rapp (New York University): 'Making the invisible visible: the hidden history of families, schools, civil rights, media and science in the production of learning disabilities', 4 December 2008
• Third Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
  Simon Szreter (St John's College, Cambridge): 'Proving a negative? How important was sexual abstinence during the fertility decline?', 29 November 2007
• Second Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
  Hilary Marland (University of Warwick): 'Doctors, motherhood and insanity of childbirth in Victorian Britain', 23 November 2006
• First Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
  Helen King (Reading University): 'Women's bodies in sixteenth-century medicine: using the classical tradition', 1 December 2005