Séminaires de Cambridge

History of Medicine Seminars, Michaelmas Term 2025


University of Cambridge

Department of History & Philosophy of Science


Seminars are on Tuesdays from 5.00 to 6.30pm in Seminar Room 1, Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RH. All welcome!



History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Organised by Rosanna Dent, Nick Hopwood, Staffan Müller-Wille and Dmitriy Myelnikov

14 October

Avey Nelson and Kate O'Riordan (University of Sussex)
Thylacine stories: mapping de-extinction

11 November
Timothy Sim (HPS, University of Cambridge)
Dengue in Campaign City: the spectacle of mosquito control in postcolonial Singapore

25 November
Miguel Garcia-Sancho (University of Edinburgh)
Infrastructures, power and filiation: genetic information and the quest for the 'stolen babies' of Spain


Early Science and Medicine
Organised by Philippa Carter and Emma Perkins

21 October
Martha McGill (English, University of Cambridge)
Memory, cognition and selfhood in early modern Britain

4 November
Eva Johanna Holmberg (University of Helsinki)
Experiencing and alleviating pain in a settler colony: Jamestown, 1607–1610

2 December
Mark Jenner (University of York)
A press of death and prices? Reframing London's Bills of Mortality


Generation to Reproduction
Organised by Philippa Carter, Nick Hopwood, Rosanna Dent, Staffan Müller-Wille and Dmitriy Myelnikov

28 October
Tatjana Buklijas (University of Auckland)
The fetus and the lamb: clinical trials and reproductive risks since the 1960s

18 November
Róisín Donohoe (National Library of Ireland)
Devotion and deliverance: childbirth in middle English manuscripts