Dear colleagues,
*With apologies for cross-posting*
I’m delighted to announce news of the return of the History of Pre-Modern Medicine seminar series. The 2015–16 series will conclude with the following
four seminars.
Tuesday 19 January: Professor Elisabeth Hsu (University of Oxford), ‘On heart
and liver in Chinese and Tibetan medicine: a situated history of not wanting to know’
Tuesday 2 February: Peter Jones (University of Cambridge), ‘The medicine of the friars in
late medieval England’
Tuesday 16 February: Dr Cristina Bellorini (Independent scholar, Milan): ‘Materia medica at the grand-ducal court in 16th century Tuscany’
Tuesday 1 March: Professor Mark Geller (Freie Universität, Berlin), ‘How Babylonian
is the Hippocratic corpus?’
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All seminars will take place in the Wellcome Library, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE. Doors at 6pm prompt, seminars will start at 6.15pm.
Organising Committee: Elma Brenner (Wellcome Library), Michael Brown (Roehampton), Elena Carrera (QMUL), Sandra Cavallo (RHUL), John Henderson (Birkbeck, London, convenor), William MacLehose (UCL),
Anna Maerker (KCL), Patrick Wallis (LSE), Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (Goldsmiths, convenor).
More details:
With best wishes,
Ross
Ross MacFarlane
Research Engagement Officer
Wellcome Library
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