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>
> The Booth Lecture
> 'AIDS Relief and Global Biomedicine Today: The Re-emergence of a
> Military-Therapeutic Complex in Africa?'
> Dr Vinh-Kim Nguyen
> Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Montreal
> Wednesday 29 November 2006, 17.30, followed by a reception
> Lecture Room, 210 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE
> Attendance is free but by ticket only and you are advised to register no
> later than Monday 20 November.
> To request a ticket/tickets, please send a stamped addressed envelope,
> clearly marked 'Booth Lecture', to:
> Carol Bowen
> Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL
> 210 Euston Road
> London NW1 2BE
>
>
> The Booth Lecture has been inaugurated to acknowledge the important
> contributions to the history of medicine made by medical practitioners, and
> will alternate with the Centre's Kass Lecture (which promotes Anglo-American
> cooperation in the history of medicine). It is named in honour of Sir
> Christopher Booth, an Honorary Professor of UCL and valued member of the
> Centre, who has been a champion for the highest standards of research
> publication in the subject no matter what the formal qualifications of the
> author. Among his many services to medicine were his roles as Director of
> the Clinical Research Centre of the Medical Research Council (1978-1988),
> President of the British Medical Association (1986-7) and President of the
> Royal Society of Medicine (1988); among his many services to history were
> his roles as Harveian Librarian of the Royal College of Physicians
> (1989-1997), founding member (in 1990) of the History of 20th Century
> Medicine Group, and many years of service on the Wellcome Trust's history of
> medicine funding committee. In addition to his wide-ranging essays on
> medicine in the 20th century, he has published on Quakers in Britain,
> especially on their medical brethren of the 18th century, such as John
> Fothergill and John Haygarth.
>
>
> Dr Carole Reeves
> Outreach Historian
> The Wellcome Trust Centre
> for the History of Medicine at UCL
> 210 Euston Road
> London NW1 2BE
> Tel: +44 (0)207 679 8135
> Email: [log in to unmask]
> Website: www.ucl.ac.uk/histmed
>
>
>
>
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