University Of Manchester
Centre For The History Of Science, Technology And Medicine, And
Wellcome Unit For The History Of Medicine
SEMINARS - FIRST SEMESTER, 1999-2000
4.00 PM TUESDAYS (* unless otherwise stated)
Room 3.29, 3rd Floor, Maths Tower, Oxford Road
Tea from 3.30 pm, Room 3.04
12 October Chris Lawrence (WIHM) and Steve Sturdy (Edinburgh)
`Politics in the Blood: Clinical Testing at the Biochemical
Laboratory of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, 1921-30'
19 October David Vincent (History, Keele)
`The British Disease: Secrecy and the State'
26 October Marcia Meldrum (UCLA and Sheffield Hallam)
`The Chronic Suffering Rat and the Neuropathic Pain Patient:
Problems of Translation'
2 November* University of Manchester History of Medicine Lecture
5:30 pm LT2 Stopford Bldg
(tea from 5pm) Peter Mohr (Hope Hospital, Salford)
`Dr Catherine Chisholm (1879-1952) and the Manchester Babies
Hospital: Feminism, Welfare and Manchester Medicine'
9 November * First Donald Cardwell Memorial Lecture
5.15 pm (Tea from 4.45 pm) UMIST (Renolds Bldg.)
Svante Lindquist (Nobel Foundation)
`No Prize for Technology: Nobel Laureates and the
Public Understanding of Science'
16 November Kelly Loughlin (LSHTM)
`Health, Medicine and the Media in Post-war Britain'
23 November Tony Travis (Jerusalem)
`Ivan Levinstein and Manchester Chemistry'
30 November George Davey-Smith (Public Health, Bristol)
`Epidemiology and the British Mortality Decline'
7 December John Krige (La Villette, Paris)
`The Technological and Industrial Dependence of CERN'
Enquiries: Karen Loo, Room 3.32a, Maths Tower (0161 275 5850)
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