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University of Cambridge
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Lent Term 2011
All seminars are on Tuesdays from 5.00 to 6.30pm in Seminar Room 1, HPS,
Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RH. Tea and biscuits are available from
4.40pm. All welcome!
History of Medicine Seminars
25 January Peregrine Horden (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Spaces of healing: Byzantium and medieval Islam compared
8 February Richard McKay (University of Oxford)
'Patient zero' and the early years of the North American AIDS epidemic
22 February Valentina Pugliano (University of Oxford)
Mortars, exotic drugs, and a battle for expertise: Verona 1561-1566
8 March Kate O'Riordan (University of Sussex)
Cloning and film: fictional vectors of factual imaginaries
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
1 February Sandrine Bertaux (Marmara University, Istanbul) Race and
population: fertility theories and the status of demography, 1920s-1960s
1 March Mary Fissell (Johns Hopkins University)
Sarah Stone, William Cadogan and Enlightenment motherhood
Funded by our Wellcome Trust strategic award in the history of medicine.
Generation to Reproduction Reading Group
This group discusses pre-circulated papers, classics as well as our own
work, in the area of our Wellcome Trust strategic award in the history of
medicine. We also hold work-in-progress sessions.
This term's meetings will be at 5-7pm (tea from 4.50) on Tuesdays 15
February and 15 March in Seminar Room 1. To join the group, please email
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Further details at: http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/medicine/
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