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UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine and Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine SEMINARS – Second Semester 2001–2002 Room 3.29, 3rd Floor, Maths Tower, Oxford Road, Manchester. 4.00pm Tuesdays. Tea from 3.30 pm, Room 3.04. 5th February VIVIANE QUIRKE (Oxford Brookes University) Improving the Nation's Health: British Pharmaceutical Companies and the Assault on Chronic Disease, 1948–68 12th February JON AGAR (London) What Happened in the Sixties? The Crisis in Trust in Science 19th February VIRGINIA BERRIDGE (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) Researching Smoking Policy: Issues for Contemporary History 26th February JANET BROWNE (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL) _Medicine in Literature_: A CD-ROM for Medical Students 12th March JIM BENNETT (University of Oxford) Shopping for Instruments in Paris and London, 1660–1800 19th March LIBA TAUB (University of Cambridge) Out of the Hands of Zeus: Characterising Ancient Meteorology 16th April MICHAEL HAGNER (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin) Hagiography, Anthropology and Eugenics: Elite Brain Research 1860–1930 23rd April JON TOPHAM (Universities of Leeds and Sheffield) Taking Scissors and Paste to Science: The _Mirror of Literature_ (1822–49) and the Invention of Popular Science 30th April MANEESHA LAL (School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London) Framing a Veiled Disease: Women Physicians, Medical Research and Osteomalacia in Twentieth-Century Colonial India 7th May JOHN WALLER (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL & Harvard) ‘The Illusion of an Explanation’: Concepts of Hereditary Disease 1770–1870 For more information on CHSTM and the Wellcome Unit, including informal seminars and late changes to the above, see www.man.ac.uk/CHSTM/