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***apologies for cross posting*** HISTORY OF MEDICINE SEMINARS IN CAMBRIDGE Michaelmas Term 2007 Seminars are on Tuesdays from 5.00 to 6.30pm in Seminar Room 1. Tea is available from 4.40pm. All welcome! EARLY MEDICINE AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHY Organised by Lauren Kassell, Rob Ralley and Laurence Totelin 9 October Alec Ryrie (Durham University) Fraud, sorcery and medicine in the 1540s: the double life of Gregory Wisdom 30 October Adrian Wilson (University of Leeds) Interrogating the prehistory of Caesarean section 20 November Lindsey Fitzharris (University of Oxford) Through the eyes of a seventeenth-century physician: reassessing John Webster HISTORY OF MODERN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY Organised by Ayesha Nathoo and Vanessa Heggie 16 October Bonnie Evans (HPS, Cambridge) How psychology lost its drive: the establishment of child psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital, 1923-1938 6 November Sanjoy Battacharya (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, UCL) Global prescriptions, local adaptations: South Asia, the WHO and the global programme to eradicate smallpox 27 November Duncan Wilson (University of Manchester) The science of self-destruction: animal suicide and the human condition FROM GENERATION TO REPRODUCTION This seminar, which is funded by our Wellcome enhancement award in the history of medicine, is a forum for discussion of how, since 1500, our world of reproductive practices and controversy was created. Organised by Jim Secord. 23 October Evelleen Richards (University of Sydney) Do females have a choice? Darwin, the breeders and the problem of female choice 13 November Solveig Jülich (Stockholm University) Questioning the images of life before birth: Lennart Nilsson's fetal photographs in public debate THIRD CAMBRIDGE WELLCOME LECTURE IN THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE 29 November, 4:30pm (with tea from 4:00) Simon Szreter (St John's College, Cambridge) Proving a negative? How important was sexual abstinence during the fertility decline? For a full list of HPS seminars see: http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/seminars/dept.html -- Dr Lauren Kassell University Lecturer in History & Philosophy of Science Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge +44 1223 (7)67173 (HPS) +44 1223 (3)30897 (Pembroke) *Medicine and Magic in Elizabethan London Simon Forman, Astrologer, Alchemist and Physician* Available in PAPERBACK from January through all good bookstores or direct from Oxford University Press at: http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-927905-5