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University of Cambridge
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
*** HISTORY OF MEDICINE SEMINARS ***
Lent Term 2005
** EARLY MEDICINE AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHY **
1 February Leigh Chipman (University of Jerusalem) '... the pharmacist, who
was my student in Mecca': pharmacists in medieval Arabic biographical
dictionaries !! Please note: this seminar will be at 1pm !!
15 February
Philip van der Eijk (University of Newcastle)
Aristotelianism and the development of medicine: the case of John Philoponus
1 March
Lucia Dacome (University College London)
The anatomy of the Pope: modelling the Catholic Enlightenment
15 March
Carole Rawcliffe (University of East Anglia)
Creating the medieval leper: some nineteenth-century myths
(organised by Lauren Kassell)
** HISTORY OF MODERN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY **
25 January Christina Brandt (MPI, Berlin) Between fact and fiction:
bioscientific research and early debates about cloning (in Germany)
8 February Sven Dierig (MPI, Berlin) Mechanical beauty: Bildung and the
aesthetics of experiment in nineteenth-century German physiology
22 February Nick Hopwood (HPS, Cambridge) 'The proletariat can find in my
preparations protection for their corpses': politics of anatomical
modelling in the nineteenth century
8 March Debbie Brunton (Open University) 1848 and all that: writing public
health history beyond the public health acts
(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
and biscuits are available from 4:40 p.m. All welcome!
Next term, with funding from the Wellcome Trust, the Department will launch
a new interdisciplinary seminar series on 'Generation/Reproduction'. These
seminars are also scheduled for Tuesdays at 5:00.
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