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University of Cambridge
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
***HISTORY OF MEDICINE SEMINARS***
Lent Term 2004
**EARLY MEDICINE AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHY**
*Disease in history*
20 January
Samuel K. Cohn, Jr (University of Glasgow)
Notions of disease and the Black Death
3 February
Peregrine Horden (Royal Holloway, University of London)
The case for biological realism
17 February
Jon Arrizabalaga (CSIC, Barcelona)
Grmek and the longue durée in the history of epidemics
2 March Andrew Cunningham (HPS, Cambridge) Death in Venice (and in Bologna,
but especially in Padua) in the early 18th century: reading Morgagni on
causes of death
(organised by Andrew Cunningham and Sachiko Kusukawa)
**HISTORY OF MODERN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY**
27 January
Andrew Mendelsohn (Imperial College, London)
Medicine militant and its origins in late nineteenth-century Europe
10 February Aryn Martin (Cornell University and HPS, Cambridge) Can't
any-body count? Counting as an epistemological topic in the history of
human chromosomes
24 February
Ayesha Nathoo (HPS, Cambridge)
Hospital-media relations in the first British heart transplant (May 1968)
9 March
Lutz Sauerteig (University of Durham)
Sex education literature, 1950s-1970s: the making of 'Geschlecht'
(organised by Nick Hopwood)
The seminars are on Tuesdays at 5:00 p.m. in Seminar Room 1, Department of
History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RH. Tea
is available from 4:40 p.m. All welcome!
