History of Medicine Seminars
Michaelmas Term 2014
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
University of Cambridge
** Early Medicine Seminars **
Organized by Lauren Kassell
14 October
Margaret Pelling (University of Oxford)
John Graunt and the health of children in
mid-17th-century London
4 November
Sophie Page (University College London)
Medicine and learned magic in the late middle ages
25 November
Jonathan Barry and Peter Elmer (University of Exeter)
Patterns of medical practice in urban and rural England, c.1500–1720: a
case-study of the South West
** History of Modern Medicine and Biology Seminars **
Organized by Nick Hopwood and Helen Curry
28 October
Joanna Radin (Yale University)
Off the reservation: how indigenous bodies became big
data
11 November
Carlos López Beltrán (UNAM, Mexico City, visiting HPS)
Mestizo genomics: race mixture, nation and science in Latin America
2 December
Stephen Mawdsley (Clare Hall, Cambridge)
'Operation
ouch': America's response to polio before a vaccine
** Generation to Reproduction Seminars **
Organized by
Nick Hopwood and Lauren Kassell.
21 October
Cathy McClive (Durham University)
Menstrual time and the blood of stigmata: Catherine
Cadière and Father Girard, an 18th-century menstrual cause célèbre
18 November
Claire Jones (King's College London)
Under the covers? Commerce, condoms and consumers in
Britain, 1860–1960
Seminars are held in Seminar Room 1, Department of
History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RH. Tea and
biscuits are available from 4:40pm; talk and discussion run from 5:00 to
6:30pm. All welcome!
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