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Subject: Pathology Museum Seminars at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital From:
Kate Angell <[log in to unmask]>
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St. Bartholomew's Hospital Pathology Museum & Galleries
SEMINARS
September — December 2011
Sponsored by:
St. Bartholomew’s and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry,
and Queen Mary College Department of Arts and Humanities.
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You are invited to attend a unique series of seminars that promise both
fascinating insights into a diverse range of topics, and also a glimpse
into a little known London museum. Housed within the grounds of St.
Bartholomew’s Hospital at West Smithfield, the museum holds a broad
range of pathological specimens, some of which date from the late 1700s,
and the papers programmed all speak in some way to this collection, as
well as to each other. We hope you will able to join us for what
promises to be a stimulating series of conversations.
October 12th 5.30-7.00 Documentary filmmaker and producer Phil Stein
will show excerpts from and speak on the 'Making of the Elephant Man'
(2010)
October 19th 6.00-7.30 Professor Tilli Tansey (Queen Mary College) and
Professor Brian Hurwitz (Kings College London) speaking on medical
narratives and museum voices
November 9th 5.30-7.00 Philip Ball (University of Cambridge) and
speakers from the Medical Artists' Association will speak on the history
of medical illustration and current practice
November 16th 5.30-7.00 Dr Keir Waddington (Cardiff University) will
speak on ‘Dying Scientifically: Gothic Romances and London’s Teaching
Hospitals’. Dr Sam Alberti (The Royal College of Surgeons) and Dr Fay
Bound Alberti (Queen Mary) will present on ‘Body Parts at Bart’s’
November 23rd 5.30-7.00 Dr Carmen Mangion and Dr Louise Hide from the
Birkbeck Pain Project will speak on 'Rhetorics of Pain in
Nineteenth-Century Convent Necrologies' and on 'Pain and Neurosyphilis'
November 30th 5.30-7.00 Professor Sharon Ruston (University of Salford)
will speak on ‘Shelly and Davy and the Bart’s Medical Archive’ and
Professor Iwan Rhys Morus (University of Aberystwyth) will present on
‘Frankenstein and Vitality’
December 14th 5.30-7.00 David Ross (The Army Health Unit, Camberley)
will present on the relationship between public health and the military
and Professor Edgar Jones (Kings College London) will speak on
shellshock and its representation in film
Please see below for directions, no need to book, wine and nibbles provided
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*Location:*
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The Pathology Museum
3rd Floor Robin Brook Centre
(Bart’s Hospital site)
West Smithfield,
London EC1M 6BQ
t: 020 7882 8766 or 2216
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How to get there:
Underground
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St. Paul’s station on the Central line, Barbican Station on Circle,
Metropolitan and Hammersmith & City lines are all within a short walking
distance. Follow signs for St.Bartholomew’s Hospital.
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Bus
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Routes 25 and 8 stop by St Paul’s. Route 56 stops outside Bart’s Hospital.
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Car
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NCP car park in West Smithfield charges £2 per hour all day. On-street
metered parking available. Bart’s Hospital lies within the congestion
charge zone.
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Overground
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First Capital Connect services to Hertford North and Welwyn Garden City
from nearby Moorgate
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Cycle
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Cycle docking stations can be found outside Bart’s Hospital on Giltspur
Street
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