Séminaires d'histoire de la médecine de Cambridge

The History and Philosophy of Science Department at Cambridge University announces the program for the Cambridge History of Medicine Seminars for the forthcoming term.

** History of Modern Medicine and Biology Seminars **
Organized by Nick Hopwood and Helen Curry

8 October
Christoph Gradmann (University of Oslo)
Reinventing Infectious Disease: Antibiotic Resistance and Drug Development at the Bayer Company, 1940-1980

5 November
Christina Brandt (Ruhr University Bochum)
The “Premature Arrival of the Future”: Temporalities of Cloning in 1970s Life Sciences and Culture

** Generation to Reproduction Seminars **
Organized by Nick Hopwood and Lauren Kassell

15 October
Lisa Smith (University of Saskatchewan)
The Lived Experience of Fertility Problems in the Eighteenth Century

12 November
Sandra Eder (University of Zurich)
The Birth of Gender: Transforming Sex at Johns Hopkins in the 1950s

Seminars are held in Seminar Room 1, Department of the History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane, Cambridge.

Tea and biscuits are available from 4:40pm; the seminar runs from 5:00 to 6:30pm. All welcome!