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University of Cambridge
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
History of Medicine Seminars
Lent Term 2002
Seminars will take place on Tuesdays from 1.00 - 2.00pm in Seminar
Room 1,
Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane.
PLEASE
NOTE THE CHANGE OF TIME.
Please feel free to bring your lunch.
HISTORY OF MODERN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY
Organised by Sarah Hodges ([log in to unmask]) and Soraya de
Chadarevian
([log in to unmask])
22 January: Susan Jones (University of Colorado-Boulder)
Creating a Scientific Context for Contingent Knowledge in American
Veterinary Medicine
5 February: Maneesha Lal (School of Oriental and African Studies,
London)
Osteomalacia in India: Framing a veiled disease
19 February: Lara Marks (Cambridge Group for the History of
Population and
Social Structure and London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine)
Sexual chemistry: the power of the pill in the past and the future
5 March: Birgit Griesecke (Max-Planck Institute, Berlin)
Night scientists at work: the Bristol Circle drug experiments
EARLY MEDICINE AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHY: MEDICINE AND
MAGIC
Organised by Lauren Kassell ([log in to unmask]) and Sophie Page
([log in to unmask])
29 January: Luke Davidson (London)
The Kiss of Life, the Untold Story (1774-1825)
12 February: David Juste (Warburg Institute, University of London)
Medical Astrology in the Early Middle Ages
26 February: Emilie Savage-Smith (University of Oxford)
Countering Disease with Magic: Medieval Islamic Artefacts vs. Texts
12 March: Erik Midelfort (University of Virginia)
Joseph Gassner and Franz Anton Mesmer, Exorcism and Magnetism
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