Michaelmas Term 2014 Seminar Series

Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine,

Seminar Room, 47 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PE

The following seminars will be held at on Mondays at 2.15pm

Coffee will be available from 2.00pm

‘Disease, Health, and Medicine since 1800’

Convener: Professor Mark Harrison, University of Oxford

Week 1 – 13 October

Mark Honigsbaum, Queen Mary University London

Karl Friedrich Meyer and the birth of modern ideas of disease ecology

Week 2 – 20 October

Mark Harrison, University of Oxford

The Army and the doctors in late Victorian Britain

Week 3 – 27 October

Tudor Georgescu, Oxford Brookes University

Integrating the periphery: A history of Transylvanian Saxon medicine between Budapest, Bucharest, and Berlin, 1887-1944

Week 4 – 3 November

Saurabh Mishra, University of Sheffield

The Coolie’s long journey: Disease and mortality on ships carrying indentured labourers, 1834-1920

Week 5 – 10 November

Samiksha Sehrawat, University of Newcastle

Medical philanthropy in Colonial North India

Week 6 – 17 November

John Stewart, Glasgow Caledonian University

Oxford shell shock in the Great War

Week 7 – 24 November

Jeong-Ran Kim, University of Oxford

Malaria and Japanese imperialism in Manchuria

Week 8 – 1 December

Cressida Jervis Read, University of Oxford

Metropolitan mosquitoes: Tracing the emergence of dengue fever in urban India

For details of other events please see http://www.wuhmo.ox.ac.uk/events/index.htm