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From: James Sumner <[log in to unmask]>
Centre for the History of Science, Technology and
Medicine, University of Manchester, UK
Seminars, February - June 2007
Unless otherwise indicated, seminars take place
at 4 p.m. on TUESDAYS in Room 2.57, Simon Building,
Brunswick Street, Manchester. Tea at 3:30 p.m. Everyone
is welcome.
26 February
Bill Luckin, University of Manchester
Slow motoring? Driving, alcohol science, and the law in Britain, 1920-1945
4 March
Victoria Long, University of Warwick
What was industrial about the Industrial Medical Service?
The decline of the healthy factory after the Second World War
8 April
Linda Hogle, University of Madison, Wisconsin
'Cells are like steel mills': concepts of
function, efficacy and production in cell research
15 April
Alex Mold, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Doing good by stealth? Voluntary organisations
and illegal drugs since the 1960s
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23 April (WEDNESDAY)
MANCHESTER HISTORY OF MEDICINE LECTURE
Professor Sir David Weatherall, University of Oxford
Molecularising medicine
Stopford Building, Lecture Theatre A, 5pm
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29 April
Tracey Loughran, University of Manchester
The evolution of a diagnosis: doctors, psychiatric
knowledge, and the framing of shell shock in British
medical discourse, circa 1860-1930
13 May
Joe Cain, University College London
Gluing together an epistemic community:
evolutionary studies in the 1930s
20 May
Hera Cook, University of Birminigham
Embodied emotion and class in mid-twentieth century Britain
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27 May
CARDWELL MEMORIAL LECTURE IN THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY
Professor John Krige, Georgia Institute of Technology
The peaceful atom as political weapon: Euratom and US
foreign policy in the late 1950s
Location to be confirmed
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3 June
Karen Sayer, Leeds Trinity and All Saints
Stimulighting and twilighting battery birds:
reassessing the animal as machine in the twentieth century
For more information, please contact [log in to unmask]
Or visit our website: www.manchester.ac.uk/chstm
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