Department of History and Philosophy of Science
University of Cambridge
History of Medicine Seminars
Lent Term 2016
** History of Modern Medicine and Biology Seminars **
Organized by Nick Hopwood and Mary Brazelton
19 January
Chris Manias (KCL)
The lost beasts: international palaeontology and the evolution of the mammals, 1880-1950
9 February
Tatjana Buklijas (Liggins Institute and Central European University)
The maternal-fetal relationship since 1900
1 March
Sally Sheard (Liverpool)
Shortening hospital stays: clinico-economic dialogues in the twentieth century
** Early Science and Medicine Seminars **
Organized by Lauren Kassell, Valentina Pugliano and Gabriella Zuccolin
26 January
Liana Saif (Oriental Institute, Oxford)
Humours, spirits, and souls: Aetiology and therapeutics in medieval Islam
*Please note early start: 4pm (tea from 3:30pm)*
16 February
Emilie Savage-Smith (Oriental Institute, Oxford)
A literary history of medicine: the world’s earliest history of medicine, composed in Syria by the physician and poet Ibn Abi Usaybiʿah (d. 1270)
8 March
Gabriele Ferrario (Taylor-Schechter Genizah Unit, Cambridge)
Graeco-Arabic science in medieval Jewish culture: evidence from the Cambridge Genizah collections
** Generation to Reproduction Seminars **
Organized by Lauren Kassell and Nick Hopwood
2 February
Lisa Malich (Berlin)
Of women and birds: the nesting instinct in pregnancy in the twentieth century
23 February
TBC
Seminars are held in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RH.
Tea and biscuits are available from 4:40pm; seminars run from 5:00 to 6:30pm.
All welcome!
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