Lent Term 2013
HISTORY OF MEDICINE SEMINARS
We've already had one seminar come and gone this
term, but details of the remaining talks can be found below.
Seminars are on Tuesdays from 5.00 to 6.30pm in Seminar Room 1, Department of HPS, Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RH. Tea
and biscuits are available from 4.40pm. All are welcome.
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5 February
Carsten Timmermann (University of Manchester)
Coping with recalcitrance: futility, frustration and failure in the
history of cancer research
12 February
Generation to Reproduction Seminar
Emma-Jayne Graham (Open University)
Moulded like wax, modelled in clay: votive offerings, swaddling and
the making of infants in Hellenistic Italy
19 February
Alun Withey (University of Exeter)
Mapping the medical marketplace: early modern Welsh practitioners
and medical retail
5 March
Lara Marks (King's College London)
From benchside to clinic: the rise of monoclonal antibodies in
healthcare
12 March
Generation to Reproduction Seminar
Joanna Bourke (Birkbeck, University of London)
Labour pains: historical reflections from 1760 to the present
Early medicine seminars are organised by Peter Jones and Hannah
Newton; modern medicine by Salim Al-Gailani and Helen Curry.
Generation to Reproduction seminars are organised by Rebecca
Flemming, Nick Hopwood and Lauren Kassell.