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From: Sam Alberti <[log in to unmask]>
Organization: University of Manchester
Subject: Seminar Series: Manchester CHSTM, Spring 2002
UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine and Wellcome
Unit for the History of Medicine
SEMINARS Second Semester 20012002
Room 3.29, 3rd Floor, Maths Tower, Oxford Road,
Manchester. 4.00pm Tuesdays. Tea from 3.30 pm, Room
3.04.
5th February
VIVIANE QUIRKE (Oxford Brookes University)
Improving the Nation's Health: British Pharmaceutical Companies and the
Assault on Chronic Disease, 194868
12th February
JON AGAR (London)
What Happened in the Sixties? The Crisis in Trust in Science
19th February
VIRGINIA BERRIDGE
(London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
Researching Smoking Policy: Issues for Contemporary History
26th February
JANET BROWNE
(Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL)
_Medicine in Literature_: A CD-ROM for Medical Students
12th March
JIM BENNETT (University of Oxford)
Shopping for Instruments in Paris and London, 16601800
19th March
LIBA TAUB (University of Cambridge)
Out of the Hands of Zeus: Characterising Ancient Meteorology
16th April
MICHAEL HAGNER
(Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin)
Hagiography, Anthropology and Eugenics: Elite Brain Research 18601930
23rd April
JON TOPHAM (Universities of Leeds and Sheffield)
Taking Scissors and Paste to Science: The _Mirror of Literature_ (182249)
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 17701870
For more information on CHSTM and the Wellcome Unit, including informal
seminars and late changes to the above, see www.man.ac.uk/CHSTM/
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