WORLD RABIES DAY
Mad Dogs and Englishmen
Saturday September 8th marks the first ever world rabies day, designed
to bring attention to a preventable disease which still kills around
50,000 people each year worldwide.
WORKSHOPS FOR ALL AGES
Emm Barnes (Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine,
University of Manchester) and Julia Hyland (Centre for the History of
Medicine, University of Birmingham) will be holding workshops suitable
for all ages at the Thackray Museum in Leeds on this day, from 11am to
4pm, on the history of rabies, exploring how our understanding of and
responses to the illness have changed since the 1880s.
Come and join in a recreation of the national news sensation of 1886,
the passage of 5 children from Bradford to Paris to receive Louis
Pasteur's new life-saving treatment after they were bitten by a rabid
dog. Participants will be encouraged to dress up as the original
patients, and can have "dog bites" applied by a professional make-up
artist, while discussing the treatment options and the new "germ theory"
with the city's Medical Officer of Health.
Museum entry is £5.50 for adults, £4.50 for concessions, and £4 for
children. There is no additional charge for the roleplay sessions.
MANCHESTER SCIENCE DAY
The same sessions will be run again as part of the Manchester Science
Festival, at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, from 11
until 4 on Wednesday 24th October, and there is no entry fee at this venue.
NEW BOOK ON HISTORY OF RABIES
You may also be interested in the new book on the subject by Neil
Pemberton and Michael Worboys
Mad Dogs and Englishmen: Rabies in Britain 1830-2000
To be published by Palgrave MacMillan on 28 Sept.
Web: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=281204
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Carsten Timmermann, PhD
Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
University of Manchester
Simon Building, Brunswick Street, Manchester M13 9PL
Phone +44-(0)161-275 7950 Fax +44-(0)161-275 5699
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/chstm
http://www.cancer-history.org
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