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University of Cambridge
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
New seminar series funded by the Wellcome Trust
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Easter Term 2005
3 May
Katharine Park (Harvard University)
The mother's part: opening the uterus in Renaissance Italy
10 May Martin Richards (SPS, Cambridge) Perfecting people at the Oneida
community (1867-79): justifications from animal and plant breeding and
theology
17 May
Barbara Duden (University of Hanover)
'Pop-genes': how gene-talk uproots perception and mobilizes to manage risks
24 May
Helga Satzinger (Wellcome Trust Centre at UCL)
The chromosomal theory of heredity and the problem of gender equality
The seminars are on Tuesdays from 5:00 till 6:30 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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