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University of Cambridge
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
*** HISTORY OF MEDICINE SEMINARS ***
Michaelmas Term 2004
** EARLY MEDICINE AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHY **
19 October
Robert Ralley (HPS, Cambridge)
Clerical medicine and textual appropriation in fifteenth-century England
2 November
Harriet Knight (Birkbeck College, London)
"More copious, and less unaccurate": Robert Boyle's planned second edition
of his 'Memoirs for the History of Human Blood'
16 November
Silvia De Renzi (Open University)
Resemblance, paternity and imagination in early modern courts
30 November
Elaine Leong (University of Oxford)
Recipe collections in early modern England: women, household and science
(organised by Lauren Kassell)
** HISTORY OF MODERN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY **
12 October
Emm Barnes (University of Manchester)
Mr Clever, Captain Chemo and the elephants: mediating childhood cancer
26 October
Sarah Wilmot (HPS, Cambridge)
Replacing the bull with a small glass phial: artificial insemination and
the ambitions of interwar science
9 November
Ian Burney (University of Manchester)
Poison, detection and the Victorian imagination
23 November
Michael Bresalier (HPS, Cambridge)
Flu research after the great pandemic: experimental medicine and the making
of a virus disease
(organised by Nick Hopwood)
The seminars are on Tuesdays at 5:00 p.m. in Seminar Room 1, Department of
History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RH. Tea
is available from 4:40 p.m. All welcome!
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