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From: James Sumner <[log in to unmask]>
Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
Seminar List, Semester 1, 2004/5
Unless otherwise noted, the CHSTM seminars take place on Tuesdays from 4pm
to 6pm (tea from 3:30) in the CHSTM Library, Room 3.29 (3rd floor), Maths
Tower, Oxford Road, Manchester.
5th October
Robert Anderson, Simon Fraser University
Negotiating Nuclear Power: Bargains, Reactors and the Development of the
Bomb in India
12th October
Arwen Mohen, University of Delaware
Negotiating Risk: Technology and Accidents in American History
19th October
CARDWELL LECTURE
6:30-7:30pm, Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester
David Edgerton, Imperial College, London
What difference does technology make? Taking the history of low things
seriously in an age of high theory
Reception and special museum visits to follow, 7.30-9.00
27th October (WEDNESDAY)
Catherine Kudlick, University of California, Davis
Should Blind Girls Marry? Eugenics and the Single Life in France and
America, 1820-1920
2nd November
Tim Boon, Science Museum, London
Science and the Citizen: Dialogue and Science Communication in World War Two
9th November
Sunil Amrith, University of Cambridge
The Story of "Dr. Malaria": Some Contradictions in International Health in
the 1950s
16th November
Hans Georg Hofer, University of Freiburg
Electrical Accidents in History: Medical Technology & the 'New Science' of
Electropathology (1890-1950)
23rd November
Steve Yearley, University of York
Mad About the Buoy: Trust and Method in the Brent Spar Controversy
30th November
Mark Harrison, Wellcome Unit, Oxford University
Networks of Knowledge: Re-thinking Science and Medicine in Early Colonial India
7th December
Graeme Kirkpatrick, University of Manchester
Title to be confirmed
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