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University of Cambridge
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
***HISTORY OF MEDICINE SEMINARS***
Michaelmas Term 2005
EARLY MEDICINE AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHY
Organised by Lauren Kassell
18 October David Wootton (University of York)
Medical history in perspective: Leeuwenhoek to Lister
1 November Laurence Totelin (Wellcome Centre for the History of
Medicine, UCL)
Sex and vegetables in the Hippocratic gynaecological treatises and attic
comedies (fifth and fourth centuries BC)
15 November Alisha Rankin (Trinity College, Cambridge)
Knowing the handwork: women and medical experimentation at the courts of
early modern Germany
29 November Catherine Rider (Christ's College, Cambridge)
The doctor and the witches: Bartholomaeus Carrichter's On the Curing of
Magical Illnesses (1551)
HISTORY OF MODERN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY
Organised by Tatjana Buklijas and Soraya de Chadarevian
11 October Keith Wailoo (Rutgers University)
How cancer crossed the colour line: race and disease in twentieth-century
America
25 October Michael Sappol (National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD)
Anatomical storytelling and the performance of medical identity in
nineteenth-century America; or, the case of Dr Charles Knowlton (1800-1850),
an 'odd', body-snatching, 'atheistical' physician of antebellum New England
8 November Ulf Schmidt and David Willcox (University of Kent)
Cold War at Porton Down: informed consent in Britain's biological and
chemical warfare experiments
22 November Philipp Felsch (Internationales Forschungszentrum
Kulturwissenschaften, Vienna)
Cultures of speechlessness: scrambles amongst the Alps, 1800-1900
History of Medicine seminars are held on Tuesdays at 5pm in Seminar Room 1
of Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane,
Cambridge. Tea is available from 4.40pm. All welcome.
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