UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
CHSTM SEMINAR SERIES
3rd TERM, 2001-2
-- Please note the addition of Dr Hohlfeld’s paper on 14/5/02
-- Please forward to interested parties
-- Please accept apologies for cross posting
Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
and Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine
Room 3.29, 3rd Floor, Maths Tower, Oxford Road,
Manchester.
4.00pm Tuesdays. Tea from 3.30 pm, Room 3.04.
16th April
MICHAEL HAGNER
(Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin)
Hagiography, Anthropology and Eugenics: Elite Brain Research
1860–1930
23rd April
JON TOPHAM (Universities of Leeds and Sheffield)
Taking Scissors and Paste to Science: The _Mirror of
Literature_ (1822–49) and the Invention of Popular Science
30th April
MANEESHA LAL
(School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London)
Framing a Veiled Disease: Women Physicians, Medical
Research and Osteomalacia in Twentieth-Century Colonial India
7th May
JOHN WALLER
(Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL &
Harvard)
‘The Illusion of an Explanation’: Concepts of Hereditary Disease
1770–1870
14th May
RAINER HOHLFELD
(German Federal Ministry for Research and Technology)
Between Autonomy and State Control: Biomedical Research in
Socialist Germany
For more information on CHSTM and the Wellcome Unit,
including informal seminars and late changes to the above, see
www.chstm.man.ac.uk
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