Seminar List: Manchester CHSTM, Spring 2002
Forwarded to HISTNEUR-L from H-SCI-MED-TECH. --RJ --- Begin Forwarded Message --- Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 10:41:04 -0500 From: "Nina Lerman, H-SCI-MED-TECH" [smtedit@mail.h-net.msu.edu] Subject: Seminar List: Manchester CHSTM, Spring 2002 Sender: "H-NET List on the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology" [H-SCI-MED-TECH@H-NET.MSU.EDU] From: Sam Alberti [MBJSSSJA@fs1.fse.man.ac.uk] UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine and Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine SEMINARS -- Second Semester 2001-2002 Room 3.29, 3rd Floor, Maths Tower, Oxford Road, Manchester. 4.00pm Tuesdays. Tea from 3.30 pm, Room 3.04. 5th February VIVIANE QUIRKE (Oxford Brookes University) Improving the Nation's Health: British Pharmaceutical Companies and the Assault on Chronic Disease, 1948-68 12th February JON AGAR (London) What Happened in the Sixties? The Crisis in Trust in Science 19th February VIRGINIA BERRIDGE (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) Researching Smoking Policy: Issues for Contemporary History 26th February JANET BROWNE (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL) _Medicine in Literature_: A CD-ROM for Medical Students 12th March JIM BENNETT (University of Oxford) Shopping for Instruments in Paris and London, 1660-1800 19th March LIBA TAUB (University of Cambridge) Out of the Hands of Zeus: Characterising Ancient Meteorology 16th April MICHAEL HAGNER (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin) Hagiography, Anthropology and Eugenics: Elite Brain Research 1860–1930 23rd April JON TOPHAM (Universities of Leeds and Sheffield) Taking Scissors and Paste to Science: The _Mirror of Literature_ (1822-49) and the Invention of Popular Science 30th April MANEESHA LAL (School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London) Framing a Veiled Disease: Women Physicians, Medical Research and Osteomalacia in Twentieth-Century Colonial India 7th May JOHN WALLER (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL & Harvard) ‘The Illusion of an Explanation’: Concepts of Hereditary Disease 1770-1870 For more information on CHSTM and the Wellcome Unit, including informal seminars and late changes to the above, see www.man.ac.uk/CHSTM/ --- End Forwarded Message ---