Dear list subscribers,

below you find the final programme for the 1999 postgraduate 
conference of the British Society for the History of Science in 
January in Manchester: 

[apologies for x-posting]

BSHS POSTGRAD CONFERENCE, JANUARY 11-13, 1999.
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Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, 
University of Manchester, Mathematics Tower, 
Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL
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PROGRAMME
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Monday, January 11

17:00 - 19:00 
Reception, CHSTM Library (Maths Tower, Room 3.29)


Tuesday, January 12

10:00 - 11:30	
Session 1
* Sam Alberti, Leeds: The practice of biology in late Victorian 
Yorkshire 
* Alison Kraft, Manchester: Biology research and teaching at 
Manchester University
* Jim Endersby, Cambridge: Putting plants in their place: Joseph 
Hooker's Botany of the Antarctic Voyage
* Aileen Fyfe, Cambridge: Creating a popular science series: the 
Religious Tract Society in the 1840s
* Discussion

11:30 - 12:00	
Coffee Break 

12:00 - 13:00	
Session 2
* John Hopkins, Leicester: The treatment of mental disorders in the 
British Army, 1914-1918
* Gayle Davis, Edinburgh: Aetiological constructions of `GPI' with 
reference to the Royal Edinburgh Asylum, 1880-1930
* Vicki Cooney, Sheffield: The impact of shell shock: suburban 
neurotics and the democratization of madness 
* Discussion 

13:00 - 14:30	
Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:00	
Session 3
* Jeremy Vetter, Oxford: A. R. Wallace, Victorian naturalist as 
anthropologist 
* John Waller, London: Sir Francis Galton, eugenics and late 19th 
century biology 
* Helen Blackman, Manchester: Female reproductive physiology in late 
Victorian England
* Discussion 

15:00 - 15:30	
Coffee Break 

15:30 - 17:00	
Session 4
* Carsten Timmermann, Manchester: Doctors and healers in interwar 
Germany: the business of alternative medicine
* Marisa Chambers, Liverpool: Tropical medicine in the 20th century
* Tim Willis, Sheffield: Science, Ideology and Smallpox in 1920s 
Sheffield  
* Dawn Woodgate, Bath: Mapping surgeons' mapping of the body: 
graphical renderings of visualisation, representation and 
dimensionality in (veterinary) surgical practice
* Discussion


Wednesday, January 13

9:45 - 11:30	
Session 5
* Tim Cooper, Manchester: Computing and electronic engineering in 
Manchester 
* David Clark, Warwick: Autonomics: computer research at the NPL, 
1957-64 
* Clive Cohen, London: Chemical engineering: the rise and fall of 
unit operations 
* Sarah Glover, Edinburgh: Gender and technology in relation to 
pilots 
* Ilaria Meliconi, Oxford: From craft to business: processes of
industrialisation in Britain, 1862-1900
* Discussion 

11:30 - 12:00	
Coffee Break 

12:00 - 13:00	
Session 6
* Helen Valier, Manchester: Clinical science in Manchester
* Birgit Davies, Cheltenham: Breast cancer, patient narratives and 
treatment methods
* Jenny Cronin, Glasgow: The medicalization of convalescent homes 
1860-1939 
*Discussion 

13:00 - 14:15	
Lunch Break 

14:15 - 15:15	
Session 7
* Louise Gray, London: Fraility and illness in early modern rural 
Germany 
* Arlene McAlister, Manchester: Three 17th century views on matter 
and spirit
* David Bates, Leicester: Thomas Yeoman (1709-1781): from provincial  
philosopher to civil engineer
* (provisional) Simon Werrett, Cambridge: 17th and 18th century 
Russian science and military science
* Discussion 

15:15 - 15:30	
Coffee Break 

15:30 - 17:00	
Session 8
* John Tresch, Cambridge: Francois Araryo and heavenly milieu
* Sujit Sivasundaram, Cambridge: Writing the history of science and 
empire: a historiographic critique of George Basalla's The Spread of 
Western Science (1967) and its continuing hold
* (provisional) Pete Reffell, Leeds: Social construction of 
information in Western society 
* (provisional) Nicholas Kollerston, London: Eureka and invention 
moments 
* Discussion

Thursday, January 14

Excursion to the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry

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            Carsten Timmermann
            Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine 
            University of Manchester
            Mathematics Tower, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
            Phone: +44 161 275 5929
            Fax:   +44 161 275 5699
  


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