***apologies for cross posting***
HISTORY OF MEDICINE SEMINARS IN CAMBRIDGE
Michaelmas Term 2007
Seminars are on Tuesdays from 5.00 to 6.30pm in Seminar Room 1. Tea is
available from 4.40pm. All welcome!
EARLY MEDICINE AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHY
Organised by Lauren Kassell, Rob Ralley and Laurence Totelin
9 October Alec Ryrie (Durham University)
Fraud, sorcery and medicine in the 1540s: the double life of Gregory Wisdom
30 October Adrian Wilson (University of Leeds)
Interrogating the prehistory of Caesarean section
20 November Lindsey Fitzharris (University of Oxford) Through the eyes of a
seventeenth-century physician: reassessing John Webster
HISTORY OF MODERN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY
Organised by Ayesha Nathoo and Vanessa Heggie
16 October Bonnie Evans (HPS, Cambridge) How psychology lost its drive: the
establishment of child psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital, 1923-1938
6 November Sanjoy Battacharya (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of
Medicine, UCL) Global prescriptions, local adaptations: South Asia, the WHO
and the global programme to eradicate smallpox 27 November Duncan Wilson
(University of Manchester) The science of self-destruction: animal suicide
and the human condition
FROM GENERATION TO REPRODUCTION This seminar, which is funded by our
Wellcome enhancement award in the history of medicine, is a forum for
discussion of how, since 1500, our world of reproductive practices and
controversy was created. Organised by Jim Secord.
23 October Evelleen Richards (University of Sydney) Do females have a
choice? Darwin, the breeders and the problem of female choice
13 November Solveig Jülich (Stockholm University) Questioning the images of
life before birth: Lennart Nilsson's fetal photographs in public debate
THIRD CAMBRIDGE WELLCOME LECTURE IN THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE 29 November,
4:30pm (with tea from 4:00) Simon Szreter (St John's College, Cambridge)
Proving a negative? How important was sexual abstinence during the
fertility decline?
For a full list of HPS seminars see:
http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/seminars/dept.html
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Dr Lauren Kassell
University Lecturer in History & Philosophy of Science
Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge
+44 1223 (7)67173 (HPS)
+44 1223 (3)30897 (Pembroke)
*Medicine and Magic in Elizabethan London Simon Forman, Astrologer,
Alchemist and Physician* Available in PAPERBACK from January through all
good bookstores or direct from Oxford University Press at:
http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-927905-5
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