Séminaires de Cambridge

Cambridge History of Medicine Seminars

Michaelmas Term 2017

Department of History and Philosophy of Science
University of Cambridge
History of Medicine Seminars


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

10 October
James Clifton (MFA, Houston)
Joachim Wtewael and the human body

24 October
Maaike van der Lugt (University of Versailles)
Individual complexion and personalized care in medieval medicine

21 November
Erica Charters (University of Oxford)
Knowing numbers, counting men: paper technology and manpower in the eighteenth century


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

7 November
Kathleen Vongsathorn (University of Warwick)
The place of birth: mothers, midwives, birth attendants, and choices about childbirth in twentieth-century Uganda

14 November
Stuart Hogarth (Sociology, Cambridge)
Regulatory regimes for diagnostic devices

28 November
James Stark (University of Leeds)
The cult of youth: rejuvenation in interwar Britain


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

17 October
Nicole Bourbonnais (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva)
Spreading the good news around the world: international family planning prophets in the mid-twentieth century

31 October
Boyd Brogan (HPS, Cambridge)
Generation, demons and disease: rethinking gender in the Denham exorcisms, 1585–86

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.