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Please note a revision to my previous email: Hannah Newton's seminar has been moved to 1 November and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim's seminar has changed to 22 November. The correct dates are below. My apologies for the mistake. All good wishes, Francis. -- Apologies for cross-posting. Please circulate to colleagues. -- Department of History and Philosophy of Science University of Cambridge Michaelmas Term 2011 HISTORY OF MEDICINE SEMINARS Seminars are on Tuesdays from 5.00 to 6.30pm in Seminar Room 1. Tea and biscuits are available from 4.40pm. All welcome! Organised by Elaine Leong, Nick Hopwood and Karin Ekholm 11 October Jane Munro (Fitzwilliam Museum) Silent partners: Artists and the mannequin from function to fetish 1 November Hannah Newton (HPS, Cambridge) 'Nott a sadder creature in the world': Parental grief in early modern England, 1580–1720 8 November Alex Mold (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) Speaking for the patient as consumer in late twentieth-century Britain 22 November Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (History, Goldsmiths) Medicine in and around Dunhuang: Preliminary assessment of ancient transmissions of medical knowledge along the Silk Road GENERATION TO REPRODUCTION SEMINARS These seminars, on Tuesdays from 5.00 to 6.30pm in Seminar Room 1, are funded by our Wellcome Trust strategic award in the history of medicine <www.reproduction.group.cam.ac.uk>. Tea and biscuits are available from 4.40pm. All welcome! Organised by Nick Hopwood 18 October Martina Schlünder (Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen) Temporal economies in fertility research in Germany, 1900–45 15 November Susanne Lettow (Freie Universität Berlin) Rethinking generation in the late eighteenth century: The concept of 'reproduction' GENERATION TO REPRODUCTION READING GROUP This group discusses pre-circulated papers, classics as well as our own work, in the area of our Wellcome Trust strategic award in the history of medicine <www.reproduction.group.cam.ac.uk>. We also hold work-in-progress sessions. This term's meetings will be at 5–7pm (tea from 4.50) on Tuesdays 25 October and 29 November in Seminar Room 1. To join the group, please email [log in to unmask]