UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
and Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine
SEMINARS - Second semester 2002-2003
Room 3.29, 3rd Floor, Maths Tower, Oxford Road, Manchester.
4.00pm Tuesdays (unless otherwise noted). Tea from 3.30 pm,
Room 3.04.
4th February
Ilana Löwy, CERMES, Paris
'Physiology, Taylorism and pedology (the science of childhood):
The unusual career of Jozefa Joteyko (1866-1928)'
11th February
Andrew Cunningham, University of Cambridge
'When did John Hunter become a comparative anatomist?'
25th February
Saul Dubow, Sussex University
'Earth history, natural history and prehistory at the Cape, 1860-75'
4th March
Christopher Hamlin, University of Notre Dame
'Technocracy and the shape of English environmentalism: The
cremation controversy 1874-1902'
Wednesday 5th March - HISTORY OF MEDICINE LECTURE
Professor John Collinge, National Hospital for Neurology and
Neurosurgery, London
'A long history of prions: From kuru to the BSE tragedy'
5.30 pm, Lecture Theatre 2, Stopford Building
11th March
David Bloor, University of Edinburgh
'Relativism at 30,000ft'
18th March
Geoffrey Cantor, University of Leeds
'Evoking evolution: The uses of Darwinism by Victorian Anglo-Jewry'
Thursday 27th March
Harold Platt, Loyola University
'Green cities: New directions in the history of technology and the
environment'
Thursday 3rd April - CARDWELL LECTURE
Professor Thomas Hughes, University of Pennsylvania
'Ecotechnological systems: A new turning point in technology'
5.00 pm, Lecture Theatre 3, Geoffrey Manton Building, MMU
(followed by reception)
29th April
John C. Burnham, Ohio State University and University of
Cambridge
'How the twentieth-century mental hospital became demonized:
The construction of a flawed memory'
6th May
Lara Marks, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and
University of Cambridge
'Microarraying technology, genetic data and the industrialisation of
the pharmaceutical industry'
13th May
Christine MacLeod, University of Bristol
'The inventor as working-class hero: Contesting reputation in
nineteenth-century Britain'
20th May
Jim Alsop, McMaster University
'White hands and coloured bodies: Racism in British overseas
nursing, 1919-35'
10th June
Anne Harrington, Harvard University
'Stories under the skin: Narrative and the body in the history of
mind-body medicine'
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