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University of Cambridge
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
** First Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine **
On Thursday 1 December 2005
Helen King (University of Reading)
will speak on
'Women's bodies in sixteenth-century medicine: using the classical
tradition'.
The lecture, which doubles as the last Departmental Seminar of Michaelmas
Term, will start at 4.30 p.m. in Seminar Room 2. There will be tea from
4.15 in Seminar Room 1, and a drinks reception there at 6.00.
At a workshop to be held the same day at 11.30 a.m. in Seminar Room 1
Professor King will introduce a discussion of a paper that can be
downloaded from <http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/medicine/wellcomelecture.html>.
The title is 'William Smellie vs. John Burton: using the history of
medicine in eighteenth-century obstetrics'.
Supported by the Wellcome Trust.
All welcome!
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