Médecine et guerre moderne

Medicine and Modern Warfare

Trinity Term 2015

Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine
University of Oxford
45-47 BANBURY ROAD, OXFORD, OX2 6PE
wuhmo@wuhmo.ox.ac.uk
Tel: (01865) 274600

The following seminars will be held at 47 Banbury Road on Mondays at 2.15pm
Coffee will be available from 2.00pm

27 April
Ben Shephard, Bristol
‘Culture, politics or biology? How does American PTSD relate to European war trauma?’


11 May
Emily Mayhew, Imperial College London and Dafydd Edwards, Centre for Blast Injury Studies, Imperial College London
‘From the Western Front to Field Hospital Camp Bastion: How the foundations of military medicine in the 21st Century were laid in the Great War’

18 May
Roderick Bailey, University of Oxford
‘Permanent make-up: Body modification and wartime disguise, 1939-45’

1 June
Ulf Schmidt, University of Kent
‘Secret science: A century of poison warfare and human experiments’

8 June
Hazel Croft, Birkbeck, University of London
‘“It would frighten you to see the people sent to this place”: Why did the emotional and nervous states of women factory workers provoke such concern in Britain in the Second World War?’

15 June
Sam Alberti, Royal College of Surgeons, London
‘Drawing bodies: British medical art in the early-twentieth century’


Convener: Dr Roderick Bailey
roderick.bailey@wuhmo.ox.ac.uk
Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine
Details of all Wellcome Unit events can be found at: www.wuhmo.ox.ac.uk