Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University
of Manchester, UK
Spring Seminars, February - May 2007
Unless otherwise indicated, seminars take place at 4 p.m. in Room 2.57,
Simon Building, Brunswick Street. Tea at 3:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome.
6 February
Flurin Condrau, University of Manchester
Patients and Power: Social Theory, Politics and Medical Education since
World War II
13 February
Pratik Chakrabarti, University of Kent
The Animal Question: Experiments and Ethics in Colonial Science
20 February
Kate Hebblethwaite, Trinity College Dublin
Women, Horses, and Doctors: A Troublesome Threesome
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Special lecture: The Astra-Zeneca Seminar Series, Faculty of Life Sciences
Wednesday, 21 February, 12 noon
Warwick Anderson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Kuru, Cannibalism and a Nobel Prize: Medical Research and Moral Peril in
New Guinea
Lecture Theatre, Michael Smith Building
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27 February
Warwick Anderson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Racial Laboratories and Reproductive Frontiers: The Sciences of Human
Hybridity in the Twentieth-Century Pacific
6 March
Jim Mills, University of Strathclyde
'Cocainomania' and Colonial India: Explaining South Asia's Cocaine
Market, 1900-1930
13 March
Daryn Lehoux, University of Manchester
Observers, Objects, and the Embedded Eye
20 March
Sarah Hodges, University of Warwick
Sex and the City in the 1920s and 1930s: Contraceptive Commercialism in
South India
17 April
Simone Turchetti, Katrina Dean, Simon Naylor, and Martin Siegert,
University of Bristol
On Thick Ice: Writing the History of Sub-Glacial Exploration in Antarctica
1 May
Peter Broks, University of the West of England
How to Make Gold and Travel in Time: A Semi-fictional History of
Victorian Science
8 May
Ed Ramsden, London School of Economics
The Rats of NIMH: Rodent Experimentation and Human Population Problems
in the Post-war United States
29 May
Rima Apple, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Contradictions of Scientific Motherhood: Women, Childcare, and the
Politics of Expertise
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