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From: Sam Alberti <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday - January 12, 2004 12:49 PM
Subject: Manchester CHSTM Seminar Series
MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY CHSTM SEMINARS
Second semester 2003*4
Please forward to interested parties; 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
University.
4.00pm Tuesdays (unless otherwise noted). Tea from 3.30 pm,
Room 3.04.
17th February
SIMON CHAPLIN, Royal College of Surgeons of England
'The divine touch, or touching divines: John Hunter, David Hume
and the Bishop of Durham's rectum'
24th February
ROBERT FOX, Oxford University
'Popularization and the public face of science in nineteenth-
century France'
2nd March
SABINE LEE, University of Birmingham
'In no sense vital * and not actually very important?'
Perceptions of the British contribution to the development of the
atom bomb
9th March
MAX JONES, University of Manchester
'Measuring the world: Exploration, empire and the Royal
Geographical Society, 1850*1914'
16th March
HENRIKA KUKLICK, University of Pennsylvania
'Personal equations: Reconceptualizing fieldwork a century ago'
23rd March
MARK JACKSON, University of Exeter
'Strange reactions: Clemens von Pirquet and the meaning of
allergy'
20th April
RHODRI HAYWARD, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History
of Medicine at UCL
'The influential general practitioner'
27th April
PAMELA H. SMITH, Pomona College, California
'Butter and mercury: Towards a history of tacit knowledge in
early modern Europe'
4th May
SORAYA DE CHADAREVIAN, University of Cambridge
'The "genetics project" in postwar Britain'
11th May
TARA ABRAHAM, Max Planck Institute for the History of
Science
'Warren S. McCulloch and the emergence of modern
neurosciences'
20th May (*Thursday*)
HISTORY OF MEDICINE LECTURE
RANDALL PACKARD, Johns Hopkins University
'The Myth of the 'Malaria Tolerant Native': Medical Research
and Colonial Development in South Africa in the 1920s and 30s'
5.30 pm, Lecture Theatre 2, Stopford Building
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