mercredi 9 octobre 2019

Séminaires d'histoire de la médecine de Cambridge

History of Medicine Seminars

Term 2019

Department of History and Philosophy of Science
University of Cambridge



** History of Modern Medicine and Biology **
Organised by Jenny Bangham, Mary Brazelton and Nick Hopwood

15 October Michael Sappol (Uppsala University)
Anatomy's photography: objectivity, showmanship and the reinvention of the anatomical image, 1861–1913
Advisory: This presentation will contain historical photographs of anatomized human bodies and body parts.

5 November Lara Keuck (Humboldt University, Berlin)
Alzheimer's disease: the history of a working title

12 November Lochlann Jain (Stanford University)
In the same vein: the hepatitis B vaccine and America's dirty blood


** Early Science and Medicine **
Organised by Lauren Kassell and Dániel Margócsy

22 October William Tullett (Anglia Ruskin University)
Smell and 18th-century medicine: 'powerful and active atoms’?
Schedule note: We will begin with tea at 5pm. The talk and discussion will run from 5.30 to 6.45.

19 November Elaine Leong (University College London)
Learning medicine by the book: reading and writing surgical manuals in early modern London

3 December Dror Weil (King's College London)
Bodies diverged: cross-cultural translation of physiological knowledge in early modern Eurasia


** Generation to Reproduction **
Organised by Nick Hopwood and Lauren Kassell

29 October Katherine Harvey (Birkbeck, University of London)
A question of balance? Thinking about sexual health in medieval Europe

26 November Susanne Klausen (Ottawa, Amsterdam and Johannesburg)
Reproductive regimes in apartheid South Africa


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; seminars run from 5:00 to 6:30pm.

Full seminar programme: https://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/news-events/seminars-reading-groups

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