UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
CENTRE FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE, and
WELLCOME UNIT FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE
SEMINARS - SPRING 1999
4.00 pm TUESDAYS (unless otherwise stated) Room 3.29, 3rd Floor,
Maths Tower, Oxford Road, Manchester, UK. Tea from 3.30 pm, Room 3.04
09 February Dr Seymour Mauskopf (Duke University and Science
Museum, London)
From an Instrument of War to an Instrument of the
Laboratory, The Affinities Do Not Change: Chemists and
the Development of Munitions 1785 - 1885.
16 February Dr Peter Atkins (Geography, Durham)
Milk, Tuberculosis and Pasteurization: a major food
safety issue 1900-1960
23 February Dr Liba Taub (Whipple Museum and HPS, Cambridge)
Ancient Greek and Roman Weather Predictions and
Explanations
02 March Professor Martin Rudwick (Cambridge)
On retreading early geological fieldwork
09 March Dr Mary Dobson (Wellcome, Oxford)
'Bounce Back Malaria': The Challenge and Fears of
Malaria Control in 20th Century Africa.
16 March Dr Rip Bulkeley (Oxford)
Aeronomy or ICBMs? Internal and External Origins of
the International Geophysical Year.
Wed 24 March 5.30pm, Post- graduate Centre, MRI. Tea from 5.0pm.
University of Manchester History of Medicine Lecture
Peter Schurr CBE FRCS
Sir Geoffrey Jefferson - Manchester's Neurosurgeon
Extraordinary
PLEASE NOTE TIME AND PLACE
20 April Dr Anna Mayer (HPS, Cambridge)
Englishness and Scientists in the 1920s.
27 April Drs Jon Agar, Penny Harvey and Sarah Green
(Manchester)
Social Contexts of Virtual Manchester
04 May Dr Jim Bennett (History of Science Museum,
Oxford)
John Harrison's Watch on Trial
11 May Professor Bill Luckin (Bolton and IHR, London)
Metropolitan Exceptionalism Revisited: Public
Health and Environmental Control in late 19th and
early 20th Century London.
Enquiries: Paula Guest, Room 3.32a, Maths Tower (0161 275 5837)
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