Department of History and Philosophy of Science
University of Cambridge
History of Medicine Seminars
Lent Term 2014
** History of Modern Medicine and Biology Seminars **
Organized by Helen Curry and Nick Hopwood
21 January
Dmitriy Myelnikov (HPS)
The multiple inventions of transgenic mice
Note: this is a programme change.
25 February
Niki Vermeulen (University of Manchester)
From reductionism towards integration: systems biology as a scientific social movement
** Early Medicine Seminars **
Organized by Lauren Kassell
4 March
Sandra Cavallo (Royal Holloway)
From the individual to the collective: changing ideas of complexion in the Italian health-advice literature of the long 16th century
Seminars are held in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane, Cambridge. Tea and biscuits are available from 4:40pm; seminars run from 5:00 to 6:30pm. All welcome!
** Generation to Reproduction Seminars **
This term we have two joint events at different times and in different places from usual.
Monday 27 January, 5.15pm
Helen King (Open University)
One-sex, two-sex, them and us? Changing sex and challenging 'Making Sex'
Joint event with CIRF and the Classics Faculty (c caucus).
Note: This seminar is at 5.15pm in Room G21 in the Faculty of Classics (Sidgwick Site).
Tuesday 18 February, 8.30pm
Alexandra Walsham (History, Cambridge)
Spiritual genetics: hereditary sin and religious genealogy in early modern England
Joint event with the Comparative Social and Cultural History Seminars on 'Generations'.
Note: This seminar is at 8:30pm in the Senior Parlour, Gonville Court, Gonville and Caius College.
** A reminder also of the Ninth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine**
Thursday 16 January 2014 at 4.30pm
Malcolm Nicolson (University of Glasgow)
The clinic of the birth: obstetric ultrasound, medical innovation and the clinico-anatomical project
More information, also on the morning workshop:
http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/medicine/wellcomelecture2014.html
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