Michaelmas Term 2015

Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine,

Seminar Room, 47 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PE

The following seminars will be held on Mondays at 2.15pm

Coffee will be available from 2.00pm

‘Seminars in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology’

Conveners: Dr Erica Charters, Professor Pietro Corsi, Dr Sloan Mahone

Week 1 – 12 October

Hans Pols, University of Sydney

‘Decolonising medicine: The Indonesian medical profession, 1900-1950.’

Week 2 – 19 October

Mary Cox, University of Oxford

‘Using modern WHO and FAO health standards to understand the health of women and children from the past: Leipzig, 1917-1921’

Week 3 – 26 October

Rob Iliffe, University of Sussex

‘The place of the imagination in accounts of scientific creativity, 1620-1820’

Week 4 – 2 November

Robert Fox, University of Oxford

‘Mentality or circumstance? The dilemmas of science-based industry in France, 1870-1920’

Week 5 – 9 November

Claas Kirchhelle, University of Oxford

‘Pyrrhic progress: Antibiotics and Western food production, 1949-2015’

Week 6 – 16 November

Elise Smith, University of Warwick

‘“Healthy, respectable boys”: Physical fitness in the Royal Navy, 1850-1905’

Week 7 – 23 November

Sophie Waring, University of Oxford

‘Negotiating expertise at sea: The Board of Longitude in the age of re-form’

Week 8 – 30 November

Alison Bashford, Cambridge University

‘Malthus and smallpox’

Belinda Michaelides

Unit Secretary

Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine

University of Oxford

45-47 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6PE

Tel: +44 (0)1865 274600

Fax: +44 (0)1865 274605

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