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5 October Klaus Dodds (Geography, Royal Holloway)
Icy
Geopolitics:
Anticipation, Calculation and Performance in and around the
Arctic Ocean
12 October Ann LaBerge (STS, Virginia Tech)
Putting
It
On and Taking It Off
19 October Judy Houck (History of Science, Wisconsin-Madison)
Revolutionary Health Care? Challenge, Compromise, and Continuity in a Feminist Women's Health Center, 1973-2007
26 October Miruna Achim (Humanities, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico City)
Mexican antiquities
for mounted birds (Or, how to build a National Museum, Mexico
City, ca 1828)
9 November Max Jones (History, Manchester)
‘Dr.
Nansen, we all love him so very much, and hope he won’t go
away’: Science, Exploration and Celebrity in the Age of Empire
16 November Jenny Kitzinger (Journalism, Media & Cultural Studies, Cardiff) & Celia Kitzinger (Sociology, York)
An accident of
history? The treatment of those in vegetative and minimally
conscious states – an auto-ethnography of medical intervention,
consent and the Mental Capacity Act
30 November Sophie Weeks (HPS, Leeds)
Francis Bacon's Novum Organum: ‘a gentle method in the cure of universal madness’
7 December Steve King (History, Leicester)
London apothecaries, the law and community, 1800-1880
-- Dr Leucha Veneer Research Associate Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine Simon Building (Room 2.66) University of Manchester Brunswick Street Manchester, M13 9PL UK Email [log in to unmask] www.manchester.ac.uk/chstm