CHSTM SEMINARS
Second Semester 2005
Seminars are held at 4pm in Room 2.57, Second Floor, Simon Building,
Brunswick Street, The University of Manchester, M13 9PL
Tea at 3:30 pm. Everyone is welcome.
15th February
Matthew Eddy, University of Durham
The Aberdeen Agricola: The Chemistry of James Anderson’s Georgics and
Geology, 1770-1800
22nd February
Alex McKay, UCL
Across the Himalayas: The Introduction of Biomedicine to Tibet
1st March
Sarah Wilmot, University of Cambridge
Brave new technology: the interwar origins of artificial insemination in
cattle
8th March
Ian Fairlie, Independent Consultant
Government Policies on Radiation Risks: the CERRIE Committee Experience
15th March
Graeme Gooday, University of Leeds
The many deaths of Lord Salisbury's gardener: historical cultures of
electricity and risk
12th April
Ilina Singh, LSE
Not Just Naughty: 50 Years of Stimulant Drug Advertising
19th April
Rosemary Fitzgerald, SOAS
Homes of Healing: The Changing World of Women's Mission Hospitals in
Colonial North India, 1870-1914
26th April
Bertrand Taithe, University of Manchester
Ethics and Heroics: Is there a humanitarian medicine? Médecins sans
frontières and the humanitarian dilemma
3rd May
Amanda Rees, University of York
A place that answers questions: primatological field sites and the
making of authentic observations
10th May
Iain Chalmers, James Lind Library
The evolution of methods for testing treatments during the first half of
the 20th century
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Dr Julie Anderson
Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
University of Manchester
Room 2.69
2nd Floor Simon Building
Brunswick Street
Manchester
M13 9PL
UK
Tel: (44) 0161 275 5947
Fax: (44) 0161 275 5699
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