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CHSTM SEMINARS Second Semester 2005 Seminars are held at 4pm in Room 2.57, Second Floor, Simon Building, Brunswick Street, The University of Manchester, M13 9PL Tea at 3:30 pm. Everyone is welcome. 15th February Matthew Eddy, University of Durham The Aberdeen Agricola: The Chemistry of James Anderson’s Georgics and Geology, 1770-1800 22nd February Alex McKay, UCL Across the Himalayas: The Introduction of Biomedicine to Tibet 1st March Sarah Wilmot, University of Cambridge Brave new technology: the interwar origins of artificial insemination in cattle 8th March Ian Fairlie, Independent Consultant Government Policies on Radiation Risks: the CERRIE Committee Experience 15th March Graeme Gooday, University of Leeds The many deaths of Lord Salisbury's gardener: historical cultures of electricity and risk 12th April Ilina Singh, LSE Not Just Naughty: 50 Years of Stimulant Drug Advertising 19th April Rosemary Fitzgerald, SOAS Homes of Healing: The Changing World of Women's Mission Hospitals in Colonial North India, 1870-1914 26th April Bertrand Taithe, University of Manchester Ethics and Heroics: Is there a humanitarian medicine? Médecins sans frontières and the humanitarian dilemma 3rd May Amanda Rees, University of York A place that answers questions: primatological field sites and the making of authentic observations 10th May Iain Chalmers, James Lind Library The evolution of methods for testing treatments during the first half of the 20th century --- Dr Julie Anderson Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine University of Manchester Room 2.69 2nd Floor Simon Building Brunswick Street Manchester M13 9PL UK Tel: (44) 0161 275 5947 Fax: (44) 0161 275 5699