Early Science and Medicine

Women's medical books in the Crown of Aragon, 1300–1500

Montserrat Cabré (Universidad de Cantabria).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 12 March 2024, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

A postgenomic quilt: how endophenotypes came to revolutionize the meaning of genetic difference

Daniel Navon (University of California, San Diego).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 05 March 2024, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Whose problem? Gendering infertility in medieval thought, c.1150–1350

Catherine Rider (University of Exeter).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 27 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The value of fieldwork in History of Science and Medicine

Various speakers.

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 20 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Cultures of curiosity in Polish/Royal Prussia, 1650–1760

Katarzyna Pękacka-Falkowska (Uniwersytet Medyczny im. Karola Marcinkowskiego w Poznaniu).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 13 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

Slave trading and the imagination of the quantifiable body in the early modern South Atlantic

Pablo F. Gómez (University of Wisconsin–Madison).

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Thursday 08 February 2024, 15:30-17:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Skin colour assessment in the age of biological diversity

Ana Carolina Vimieiro (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 06 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Food, drink and bodies in-between in the colonial space: culinary (re-)encounters at the Pietist Protestant Mission in Tranquebar, c.1700–1730

Gabrielle Robilliard-Witt (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 30 January 2024, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

How the fetal period became part of the life course: birth cohort studies and prenatal development from the 1960s to the present

Heini Hakosalo (University of Oulu, Finland).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 23 January 2024, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

The science of pleasure in early modern South Asia

Neha Vermani (University of Sheffield).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 28 November 2023, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Plague and plantations: science, extraction, and global connections in Mauritius, 1899–1933

Jules Skotnes-Brown (University of St Andrews).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Challenging the Hunterian hegemony: rethinking the visual culture of pregnancy in mid-eighteenth-century Britain

Rebecca Whiteley (University of Birmingham).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Towards a social(ist) model of disability? Exploring the Soviet roots of twentieth-century disability politics

Claire Shaw (University of Warwick).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 07 November 2023, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Splicing the soul: brain anatomy and interspecies difference in early modern Europe

Philippa Carter (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 31 October 2023, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Baby Blues and BBC Television: Postpartum psychosis narratives, stigma and support in 1970s Britain

Fabiola Creed (University of Warwick).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 24 October 2023, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Towards a physical botany: the ascent of water in plants in seventeenth-century studies

Fabrizio Baldassarri (Ca' Foscari University of Venice).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 17 October 2023, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The campaign against leprosy in contemporary China

Dong Guoqiang (Fudan University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 10 October 2023, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

The history of medicine in early South Asia: using digital humanities to quell the panic of facing huge manuscript traditions and the value of doing research in plain view

Dominik Wujastyk (University of Alberta).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 29 May 2023, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Digestion in Late Renaissance medicine and alchemy

Elizabeth Moreau (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 16 May 2023, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Professional ethics, medical professionals and the famine of 1932–1933 in Soviet Ukraine

Oksana Vynnyk (University of Alberta).

Zoom.

Tuesday 09 May 2023, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Challenging the Hunterian hegemony: rethinking the visual culture of pregnancy in mid-eighteenth-century Britain

CANCELLED

Rebecca Whiteley (Birkbeck, University of London).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 02 May 2023, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Mining ecologies: socio-natural landscapes of extraction and knowledge in the early modern period

Tina Asmussen (Bergbaumuseum Bochum – Ruhr-Universität Bochum).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 14 March 2023, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Medicine workers in the mountains: upland gatherers in the Min River Valley and China's natural medicinal products trade, 1890–1960

Dora Yao (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 07 March 2023, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

'Scandinavian, safe and sanitary!' The commercialisation of menstruation in Norway and Sweden, 1940–1990

Camilla Røstvik (University of Aberdeen).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 07 February 2023, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Boiling it down: Chinese tea in the first Dutch medical journal, 1680–1688

Trude Dijkstra (University of Amsterdam).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 31 January 2023, 17:00-18:30

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

Live, and let live: medical recipes and technique of the socialized self across the Ming-Qing transition

He Bian (Princeton University).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 26 January 2023, 16:00-17:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Finding women's 'everyday health': testimonies and experiences

Tracey Loughran (University of Essex).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 24 January 2023, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

'Description, figure and colour combined': in search of perfection in zoological representation, c. 1820–1850

Joyce Dixon (University of Edinburgh).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 17 January 2023, 11:00-12:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Overcoming childlessness: (in)fertility in early modern North India

Sonia Wigh.

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 29 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Humanising genetics: changing practices, emotions and identities of clinical genetics in the late 20th century

Jenny Bangham (QMUL).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

From indigenous panaceas to global drugs, or, how the Philippine plant igasud became the St Ignatius bean (c.1670–1750)

Sebestian Kroupa (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 15 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Eating with animals, eating animals, and eating like animals: scientific nutrition and cross-species methods in the 20th century

Alma Igra (Van Leer Jerusalem Institute).

Zoom.

Tuesday 08 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

Early Science and Medicine

Thinking with sea monsters: re-thinking early modern maps and epistemic images

Surekha Davies (Utrecht University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

How silence became 'outdated': secrecy, anonymity and artificial insemination by donor, 1950s–1990s

Tinne Claes (KU Leuven).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 25 October 2022, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Authorship and mathematical skills between artisans and scholars: the geometries of Sébastien Le Clerc (1637–1714)

Oded Rabinovitch (Tel Aviv University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 18 October 2022, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

'The Great Kanto Earthquake' and 'Doctors, patients and the two languages'

Manabu Akagawa and Akihito Suzuki (University of Tokyo).

Zoom.

Tuesday 11 October 2022, 09:00-10:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

A political ecology of horse breeding in early modern Spain and Spanish colonial America

Kathryn Renton (UCLA).

Zoom.

Tuesday 24 May 2022, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Alhazen's Perspectiva legacy in science and art

Nader El-Bizri (American University of Beirut).

Arts School Lecture Theatre A.

Tuesday 10 May 2022, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Migrant miners and empires: the social technology of tin mining in the age of global trade

Yijun Wang (New York University).

Zoom.

Tuesday 15 March 2022, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Global actuarial science in the making of the universal healthcare system in the Republic of China, 1935–2010

Please note this seminar takes place on a Monday

Wayne Soon (Vassar College).

Zoom.

Monday 07 March 2022, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Finding women's 'everyday health': testimonies and experiences

CANCELLED

Tracey Loughran (University of Essex).

Zoom.

Tuesday 15 February 2022, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Insects and the infrastructure of Empire: tropical agriculture and biological control in early 20th-century Hawai'i

Jessica Wang (University of British Columbia).

Zoom.

Tuesday 08 February 2022, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Contagion and the politics of maritime quarantine during the Marseille plague (1720)

Philippa Hellawell (National Archives, UK).

Arts School Lecture Theatre A.

Tuesday 01 February 2022, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Black eugenics and the politics of reproduction

Ayah Nuriddin (Princeton University).

Zoom.

Tuesday 25 January 2022, 17:00-18:30

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

Seeds, a dying river, and an experiment station: re-examining 1960s global solutions to hunger from Sonora, Mexico

Gabriela Soto Laveaga (Harvard University).

Zoom.

Thursday 20 January 2022, 16:00-17:30

Early Science and Medicine

Lovesickness (ʿishq) in the Arabic medical commentaries (1200–1520)

Nahyan Fancy (DePauw University).

Cockroft Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 07 December 2021, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

'She's wearing it!' Gender, tinkering, and the design of hearing aids

Jaipreet Virdi (University of Delaware).

Zoom.

Tuesday 30 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Arabo-Persian texts as a vehicle for transmission of medical knowledge in late medieval and early modern China

Dror Weil (Faculty of History).

Mill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

Tuesday 23 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Technoscience in the tropics: public agricultural research and environmental imaginaries in Brazil

Ryan Nehring (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Zoom.

Tuesday 16 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Philosophy for anatomists: Francis Glisson and the peculiar fits of irritable matter

Guido Giglioni (University of Macerata).

Zoom.

Tuesday 09 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Marcus Marci Von Kronland (1595–1667) on the embryo's ensoulment?

CANCELLED

Anna Corrias (Faculty of Divinity).

Mill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

Tuesday 02 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Mismatched filiations: the family in German colonial surveys on indigenous law (c. 1910)

Anna Echterhölter (University of Vienna).

Zoom.

Tuesday 26 October 2021, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Ship tracks on European maps and charts, c.1500–c.1800

Sara Caputo (Magdalene College, Cambridge).

Mill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

Tuesday 19 October 2021, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

'Constipated, toothless fatties': body and diet in twentieth-century Britain

Chris Otter (Ohio State University).

Zoom.

Tuesday 12 October 2021, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

The two lives of Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues: picturing plants in the 16th century

Monique Kornell and Dániel Margócsy.

Zoom.

Tuesday 18 May 2021, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The making of a Pastorian empire: tuberculosis and bacteriological technopolitics in French colonialism and international science, 1890–1940

Aro Velmet (University of Southern California).

Zoom.

Tuesday 16 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Birth, fate, and Roman futures

Anna Bonnell Freidin (University of Michigan).

Zoom.

Tuesday 09 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

As small as a grain of barley: the Bourbon state and the caesarean operation in New Spain, 1771–1810s

Elizabeth O'Brien (Johns Hopkins University).

Zoom.

Tuesday 02 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Wound Man: three early modern afterlives of a medieval surgical image

Jack Hartnell (University of East Anglia).

Zoom.

Tuesday 23 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Seed sovereignty and 'our living relatives' in Native American community farming and gardening

Elizabeth Hoover (University of California, Berkeley).

Zoom.

Tuesday 16 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

Doctors v. midwives: Caribbean medical encounters in the age of pronatal abolition

Sasha Turner (Johns Hopkins University).

Zoom.

Thursday 11 February 2021, 16:00-17:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Renaissance eugenics

Mackenzie Cooley (Hamilton College).

Zoom.

Tuesday 02 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The concept of 'disease carrier' in Western medicine

Amir Teicher (Tel Aviv University).

Zoom.

Tuesday 26 January 2021, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The shadow of slavery: measuring miscegenation in the early 20th century

Rana Hogarth (University of Illinois).

Zoom.

Tuesday 01 December 2020, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Gender and generation in premodern Europe

Leah DeVun (Rutgers University).

Zoom.

Tuesday 17 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Microbe smiths: engineering microbial control in 20th-century Japan

Victoria Lee (Ohio University).

Zoom.

Tuesday 10 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

The body whole and quotidian: experiencing the body in 18th-century Britain

Karen Harvey (University of Birmingham).

Zoom.

Tuesday 03 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Europe in the global rise of reproductive rights: abortion and transnational feminisms (1960s–80s)

Maud Bracke (University of Glasgow).

Zoom.

Tuesday 27 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

The first Egyptian society

Anna Marie Roos (University of Lincoln).

Zoom.

Tuesday 20 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Seeing like a welfare state: sickle cell disease, medical racism and patient advocacy in the National Health Service, 1975–1993

Grace Redhead (University College London).

Zoom.

Tuesday 13 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Serological surveillance: transfusion, genetics and rare blood in postwar Britain

CANCELLED

Jenny Bangham (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Reconstructing Noah's ark in the 17th-century Dutch Republic

Eric Jorink (Huygens Institute and Leiden University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

The maternal imprint: gender, heredity and the biosocial body

Sarah Richardson (Harvard University).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 16:00-17:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

A good match: gender and the physiology of love in 18th-century Spain

Elena Serrano (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

'You have to incorporate the client's belief system... even when it is the opposite of your own': CBT and psychotherapy in Ghana since 1974

Sarah Marks (Birkbeck, University of London).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The Chinese calorie: nutrition science in early 20th-century China

Hilary Smith (University of Denver and Needham Research Institute).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

The contraceptive pill in Ireland: activism, women's agency and doctors' authority in the 1960s and 1970s

Laura Kelly (University of Strathclyde).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 14 January 2020, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Bodies diverged: cross-cultural translation of physiological knowledge in early modern Eurasia

CANCELLED

Dror Weil (King's College London).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Reproductive regimes in apartheid South Africa

CANCELLED

Susanne Klausen (Ottawa, Amsterdam and Johannesburg).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Learning medicine by the book: reading and writing surgical manuals in early modern London

Elaine Leong (University College London).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

In the same vein: the hepatitis B vaccine and America's dirty blood

Lochlann Jain (Stanford University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Alzheimer's disease: the history of a working title

Lara Keuck (Humboldt University, Berlin).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

A question of balance? Thinking about sexual health in medieval Europe

Katherine Harvey (Birkbeck, University of London).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Smell and 18th-century medicine: 'powerful and active atoms'?

William Tullett (Anglia Ruskin University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 22 October 2019, 17:00-18:45

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Anatomy's photography: objectivity, showmanship and the reinvention of the anatomical image, 1861–1913

Michael Sappol (Uppsala University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 15 October 2019, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Ladies at sea: seasickness and the female body

Gabor Gelleri (University of Aberystwyth).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Changing understandings of the human fetus over five decades of legal abortion

Sally Sheldon (University of Kent).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Total knowledge? Handbooks and encyclopedism in the 20th-century life sciences

Mathias Grote (Humboldt University, Berlin).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Giants and national identity in early modern Europe

Anita Guerrini (Oregon State University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Anatomy museum on the move

Elizabeth Hallam (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 12 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Surface thinking: skin in early modern medicine

Hannah Murphy (King's College London).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 05 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

From cures to courts of justice: medical encounters, the issue of generation, and social order in early modern Spain

Carolin Schmitz (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Folic acid between science, policy and the market: mainstreaming pre-conceptional vitamins in the 1980s and '90s

Salim Al-Gailani (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 17:00-18:30

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

Heaven and Earth are within one's grasp: the healer's body-as-technology in classical Chinese medicine

Marta Hanson (Johns Hopkins University).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 16:00-17:30

Early Science and Medicine

Missing friars: rethinking late medieval medicine

Peter Jones (King's College, Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

From pustulent penises to death by celibacy: thinking about sexual health in medieval Europe

CANCELLED

Katherine Harvey (Birkbeck, University of London).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Living archives and dying wards: ethical records preservation at the Uganda Cancer Institute

Marissa Mika (University College London).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 13 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

From angel food to vegetable diets: medicalizing the feminine appetite in the British 18th century

Jessica Hamel-Akré (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 06 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Psychedelic birth: bodies, boundaries and consciousness in the 1970s

Wendy Kline (Purdue University / University of Strathclyde).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 30 October 2018, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

'Since the introduction of the Sick Pay Scheme, sick absence has increased': sick pay, sick leave and sick notes in the nationalised industries c. 1948–1959

Gareth Millward (University of Warwick).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 23 October 2018, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Writing the Scientific Revolution in Louis XIV's France

Oded Rabinovitch (Tel-Aviv University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 16 October 2018, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

'Living differently from now on': the utopia of abortion activism in 1970s France

Bibia Pavard (Panthéon-Assas University, Paris).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 09 October 2018, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Handbuchwissenschaft, or: how big books maintain knowledge in the twentieth-century life sciences

CANCELLED

Mathias Grote (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 13 March 2018, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Missing friars: rethinking late medieval medicine

CANCELLED

Peter Jones (King's College, Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 06 March 2018, 17:00-18:30

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

Poison trials, panaceas and proof: debates about testing and testimony in early modern European medicine

Alisha Rankin (Tufts University).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 01 March 2018, 15:30-17:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Changing understandings of the human fetus over five decades of legal abortion

CANCELLED

Sally Sheldon (University of Kent).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 27 February 2018, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Pain and physiological processes in sixteenth-century medical texts from Mexico and Spain

Yari Perez-Marin (Durham University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 20 February 2018, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Genes against beans: favism, malaria and nationalism in the Middle East

Elise Burton (Newnham College, Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 13 February 2018, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Slaying (or at least taming) a dreadful monster: Louis de Serres' treatise of 1625 for women suffering from infertility

Valerie Worth (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 06 February 2018, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Sleep piety and healthy sleep in early modern English households

Sasha Handley (University of Manchester).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 30 January 2018, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

'Don't eat the pudding': food and nourishment in the nineteenth-century English prison system

Margaret Charleroy (University of Warwick).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 23 January 2018, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The cult of youth: rejuvenation in interwar Britain

James Stark (University of Leeds).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 28 November 2017, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Knowing numbers, counting men: paper technology and manpower in the eighteenth century

Erica Charters (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 21 November 2017, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Regulatory regimes for diagnostic devices

Stuart Hogarth (Department of Sociology).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 14 November 2017, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The place of birth: mothers, midwives, birth attendants, and choices about childbirth in twentieth-century Uganda

Kathleen Vongsathorn (University of Warwick).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 07 November 2017, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Generation, demons and disease: rethinking gender in the Denham exorcisms, 1585–86

Boyd Brogan (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 31 October 2017, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Individual complexion and personalized care in medieval medicine

Maaike van der Lugt (University of Versailles).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 24 October 2017, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Spreading the good news around the world: international family planning prophets in the mid-twentieth century

Nicole Bourbonnais (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 17 October 2017, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Joachim Wtewael and the human body

James Clifton (MFA, Houston).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Malaria and the colonial frontier in Manchuria, 1905–1940s

Jeong-ran Kim (Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 14 March 2017, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

The state of the environment: public health and technology in Renaissance Genoa

Jane Stephens Crawshaw (Oxford Brookes University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 07 March 2017, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Childless communities: early medieval monasteries and the history of (in)fertility

Zubin Mistry (University of Edinburgh).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 28 February 2017, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Genomics and the industrialisation of medical tests, 1980–2000

Steve Sturdy (University of Edinburgh).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 21 February 2017, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

The craft of healing, city guilds and vernacular print: Hieronymus Brunschwig's medical manuals, c. 1500

Tillmann Taape (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 14 February 2017, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Multispecies settlement in Palestine: the problem of infertility and the wonders of urine

Tamar Novick (MPI, Berlin).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 07 February 2017, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Marriage, mourning and martyrdom: the history of an 18th-century English bed-sheet

CANCELLED

Sasha Handley (University of Manchester).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 31 January 2017, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Picturing the unusual: medical photography as an 'experimental system'

Lukas Engelmann (CRASSH).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 24 January 2017, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The anti-feminist construction of the 'midlife crisis'

Susanne Schmidt (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 29 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

Eugenic sterilization in California: from demographic analysis to digital storytelling

Alexandra Minna Stern (University of Michigan).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 24 November 2016, 15:30-17:00

Early Science and Medicine

Reading Vesalius 700 times: the problem of generation and the reception history of De humani corporis fabrica

Dániel Margócsy (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 22 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

From Petite Chimie to industrial chemistry: insecticides in France from the Old Regime to the Industrial Revolution (1750–1830)

Pierre-Etienne Stockland (Columbia University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 15 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The life of forms: biology and modernist sculpture

Ed Juler (Newcastle University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 08 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Making pregnancy public in seventeenth-century England

Leah Astbury (Department of History and Philosphy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 01 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

The foreigner's disease: global perspectives on syphilis in early modernity

Anna Winterbottom (University of Sussex).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 25 October 2016, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Bringing together family planning and parasite control: Cold War collaborations between Japan and South Korea

Aya Homei (University of Manchester).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 18 October 2016, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The Colindale typers: bacteriophage and the British Public Health Laboratory Service

Claas Kirchhelle (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 11 October 2016, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Graeco-Arabic science in medieval Jewish culture: evidence from the Cambridge Genizah collections

Gabriele Ferrario (Taylor-Schechter Genizah Unit, Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 08 March 2016, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Shortening hospital stays: clinico-economic dialogues in the 20th century

Sally Sheard (University of Liverpool).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 01 March 2016, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

The seed you need: generation, reproduction and female orgasm in medieval Islamic medicine

Ahmed Ragab (Harvard University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 23 February 2016, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

A literary history of medicine: the world's earliest history of medicine, composed in Syria by the physician and poet Ibn Abi Usaybi'ah (d. 1270)

Emilie Savage-Smith (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 16 February 2016, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The maternal-fetal relationship since 1900

Tatjana Buklijas (Liggins Institute and Central European University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 09 February 2016, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Of women and birds: the nesting instinct in pregnancy in the 20th century

Lisa Malich (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 02 February 2016, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Humours, spirits and souls: aetiology and therapeutics in medieval Islam

This seminar will start an hour earlier than usual, at 4pm

Liana Saif (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 26 January 2016, 16:00-17:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The lost beasts: international palaeontology and the evolution of the mammals, 1880–1950

Chris Manias (KCL).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 19 January 2016, 17:00-18:30

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

Curing diseases and exchanging knowledge: sixteenth-century physicians and their female patients

Michael Stolberg (University of Würzburg).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 14 January 2016, 16:30-18:00

Early Science and Medicine

Rethinking the one-sex body: sex, gender and medicine in the medieval world

Katharine Park (Harvard University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 01 December 2015, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The medical book in the Victorian pornography trade

Sarah Bull (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 24 November 2015, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Interracial relationships and the 'brown baby' problem: black GIs, white women and their mixed race offspring in World War II Britain

Lucy Bland (Anglia Ruskin University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 17 November 2015, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

On the political use of physiognomy around 1500

This seminar will take place an hour earlier than usual, at 4pm

Joseph Ziegler (University of Haifa).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 10 November 2015, 16:00-17:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

After the end of disease: looking past the epidemic narrative

Dora Vargha (Birkbeck, University of London).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 03 November 2015, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Locked in colour: doctors and the bite of the tarantula

Stefano Cracolici (Durham University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 20 October 2015, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

'Highly coloured': race, ethnicity and the NHS

Roberta Bivins (University of Warwick).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 13 October 2015, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

The 'consultations' of Dr William Cullen (1710–1790): creating a digital edition

David Shuttleton (University of Glasgow).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 10 March 2015, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Women and children first: imaging medical genetics, 1950s–1970s

María Jesús Santesmases (CSIC, Madrid).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Malthus and the South Sea

Alison Bashford (Faculty of History).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 24 February 2015, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Physic and divinity: the case of Dr John Downes (1626–1694)

Sophie Mann (University of Essex).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 17 February 2015, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Autobiography and the crafting of identity in 20th-century American medicine

Caitjan Gainty (King's College London).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 10 February 2015, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Sizing up the pelvis: birthing technology in late 18th-century France

Margaret Carlyle (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 27 January 2015, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Casta paintings and the colonial body

Rebecca Earle (University of Warwick).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 20 January 2015, 17:00-18:30

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

One-seed, two-seed, three-seed? Reassessing ancient theories of generation

Rebecca Flemming (Faculty of Classics).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 15 January 2015, 16:30-18:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

'Operation ouch': America's response to polio before a vaccine

Stephen Mawdsley (Clare Hall, Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 02 December 2014, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Patterns of medical practice in urban and rural England, c.1500–1720: a case-study of the South West

Jonathan Barry and Peter Elmer (University of Exeter).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 25 November 2014, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Under the covers? Commerce, condoms and consumers in Britain, 1860–1960

Claire Jones (King's College London).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 18 November 2014, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Mestizo genomics: race mixture, nation and science in Latin America

Carlos López Beltrán (UNAM, Mexico).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 11 November 2014, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Medicine and learned magic in the late middle ages

Sophie Page (University College London).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 04 November 2014, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Off the reservation: how indigenous bodies became big data

Joanna Radin (Yale University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 28 October 2014, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Menstrual time and the blood of stigmata: Catherine Cadiere and Father Girard, an 18th-century menstrual cause célèbre

Cathy McClive (Durham University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 21 October 2014, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Pregnancy testing before DIY: rethinking the patient-doctor-laboratory relationship

Jesse Olszynko-Gryn (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 16 October 2014, 16:30-18:00

Early Science and Medicine

John Graunt and the health of children in mid-17th-century London

Margaret Pelling (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 14 October 2014, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

From the individual to the collective: changing ideas of complexion in the Italian health-advice literature of the long 16th century

Sandra Cavallo (Royal Holloway).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 04 March 2014, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

From reductionism towards integration: systems biology as a scientific social movement

Niki Vermeulen (University of Manchester).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 25 February 2014, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Spiritual genetics: hereditary sin and religious genealogy in early modern England

Alexandra Walsham (Faculty of History).

Senior Parlour, Gonville Court, Gonville and Caius College.

Tuesday 18 February 2014, 20:30-22:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

One-sex, two-sex, them and us? Changing sex and challenging 'Making Sex'

Helen King (Open University).

Room G21, Faculty of Classics.

Monday 27 January 2014, 17:15-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The multiple inventions of transgenic mice

Dmitriy Myelnikov (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 21 January 2014, 17:00-18:30

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

The clinic of the birth: obstetric ultrasound, medical innovation and the clinico-anatomical project

Malcolm Nicolson (University of Glasgow).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 16 January 2014, 16:30-18:00

Early Science and Medicine

Polite and excrement labour? Sanitary services in London c.1650–c.1830

Mark Jenner (University of York).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 19 November 2013, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

The birth of gender: transforming sex at Johns Hopkins in the 1950s

Sandra Eder (University of Zurich).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 12 November 2013, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The 'premature arrival of the future': temporalities of cloning in 1970s life sciences and culture

Christina Brandt (Ruhr University Bochum).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 05 November 2013, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Gendering Renaissance medicine: vicarious menstruation and anomalous bleeding

Gabriella Zuccolin (Open University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 22 October 2013, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

The lived experience of fertility problems in the 18th century

Lisa Smith (University of Saskatchewan).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 15 October 2013, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Reinventing infectious disease: antibiotic resistance and drug development at the Bayer Company, 1940–1980

Christoph Gradmann (University of Oslo).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 08 October 2013, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Labour pains: historical reflections from 1760 to the present

Joanna Bourke (Birkbeck, University of London).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 17:00-18:30

From benchside to clinic: the rise of monoclonal antibodies in healthcare

Lara Marks (King's College London).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 05 March 2013, 17:00-18:30

Mapping the medical marketplace: early modern Welsh practitioners and medical retail

Alun Withey (University of Exeter).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 19 February 2013, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Moulded like wax, modelled in clay: votive offerings, swaddling and the making of infants in Hellenistic Italy

Emma-Jayne Graham (Open University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 12 February 2013, 17:00-18:30

Coping with recalcitrance: futility, frustration and failure in the history of cancer research

Carsten Timmermann (University of Manchester).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 05 February 2013, 17:00-18:30

Mental illness and cognitive impairment in central and late medieval Normandy: attitudes and responses

Elma Brenner (Wellcome Trust Library).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 17:00-18:30

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

Generatio: medieval debates about procreation, heredity and 'bioethics'

Maaike van der Lugt (Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7 / Institut Universitaire de France).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 17 January 2013, 16:30-18:00

Ordinary seamen, bodily knowledge and Royal Navy sex crimes trials, 1688–1783

Seth LeJacq (Johns Hopkins University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 27 November 2012, 17:00-18:30

Group formations: surgeons and artists in Victorian group portraiture

Keren Hammerschlag (King's College London).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 13 November 2012, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

'No good fruit': attitudes toward infertility in colonial New England

Marisa Benoit (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 06 November 2012, 17:00-18:30

Consensus, correspondence and the development of the 'second opinion' in Nuremberg's medical reformation, 1560–1598

Hannah Murphy (University of California, Berkeley).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 23 October 2012, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Test-tubes and turpitude: infertility and artificial insemination in mid-twentieth-century Scotland

Gayle Davis (University of Edinburgh).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 16 October 2012, 17:00-18:30

A delicate alliance: aid agencies and the media in Britain since the 1960s

Ayesha Nathoo (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 09 October 2012, 17:00-18:30

Useful books: reading vernacular regimens in 16th-century England

Jennifer Richards (Newcastle University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 06 March 2012, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Health, height and intelligence in history: surveying the British population through the 20th century

CANCELLED

Ed Ramsden (University of Exeter).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 28 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

A pre-peanut history of food allergy

Matthew Smith (University of Strathclyde).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 21 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

Fitting for health: steel-trusses in the enlightened economy of healthcare

Christelle Rabier (LSE).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 14 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

British 'sexology' and the uses of the past

Kate Fisher (University of Exeter).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 31 January 2012, 17:00-18:30

Imagin(in)g the breast: mammography and breast cancer in the context of South-North American exchanges

Yolanda Eraso (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 24 January 2012, 17:00-18:30

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

Revisiting the Mendelian revolution

Staffan Müller-Wille (University of Exeter).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 19 January 2012, 16:30-18:00

Medicine in and around Dunhuang: preliminary assessment of ancient transmissions of medical knowledge along the Silk Road

Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (Goldsmiths, University of London).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 22 November 2011, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Rethinking generation in the late 18th century: the concept of 'reproduction'

Susanne Lettow (Freie Universität Berlin).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 15 November 2011, 17:00-18:30

Speaking for the patient as consumer in late 20th-century Britain

Alex Mold (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 08 November 2011, 17:00-18:30

'Nott a sadder creature in the world': parental grief in early modern England, 1580–1720

Hannah Newton (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 01 November 2011, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Temporal economies in fertility research in Germany, 1900–45

Martina Schlünder (Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 18 October 2011, 17:00-18:30

Silent partners: artists and the mannequin from function to fetish

Jane Munro (Fitzwilliam Museum).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 11 October 2011, 17:00-18:30

Cloning and film: fictional vectors of factual imaginaries

Kate O'Riordan (University of Sussex).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 08 March 2011, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Sarah Stone, William Cadogan and Enlightenment motherhood

Mary Fissell (Johns Hopkins University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 01 March 2011, 17:00-18:30

Mortars, exotic drugs, and a battle for expertise: Verona 1561–1566

Valentina Pugliano (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 22 February 2011, 17:00-18:30

'Patient zero' and the early years of the North American AIDS epidemic

Richard McKay (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 08 February 2011, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Race and population: fertility theories and the status of demography, 1920s–1960s

Sandrine Bertaux (Marmara University, Istanbul).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 01 February 2011, 17:00-18:30

Spaces of healing: Byzantium and medieval Islam compared

Peregrine Horden (Royal Holloway, University of London).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 25 January 2011, 17:00-18:30

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

Encountering Aristotle's Masterpiece, or how to find a racy book about reproduction

Mary Fissell (Johns Hopkins University).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 20 January 2011, 16:30-18:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Spermatic animalcules and concepts of life around 1800

Florence Vienne (Technical University, Braunschweig).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 23 November 2010, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Diagnosing child sexual abuse in early modern England

Sarah Toulalan (University of Exeter).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 16 November 2010, 17:00-18:30

'A cold-blooded business'? Making the modern blood donor in wartime London

Nick Whitfield (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 09 November 2010, 17:00-18:30

Catholic activists, medical authority and the limiting of peasant choice in rural Brittany, 1650–1750

Tim McHugh (Oxford Brookes University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 26 October 2010, 17:00-18:30

The 'miracle of childbirth': the portrayal of parturient women in medieval miracle narratives

Hilary Powell (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 19 October 2010, 17:00-18:30

Diseased on an Indian Ocean island: medicine, statishness and colonialism

Sujit Sivasundaram (Faculty of History).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 12 October 2010, 17:00-18:30

The birth of biopower in eighteenth-century Germany

Claudia Stein (University of Warwick).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 09 February 2010, 17:00-18:30

'Isolates' and 'crosses': human evolution and population genetics in the mid-twentieth century

Veronika Lipphardt (MPI for the History of Science, Berlin).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 19 January 2010, 17:00-18:30

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

Divorcing sex and reproduction: the discussion of artificial insemination in Britain, 1918–1948

Angus McLaren (University of Victoria).

Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 03 December 2009, 16:30-18:00

Practitioners, products and promotion: the medical trade catalogue and professional ethics in Britain, 1880–1914

Claire Jones (University of Leeds).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 24 November 2009, 17:00-18:30

Medical knowledge and enlightened war: British and French military medicine in the eighteenth century

Erica Charters (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 17 November 2009, 17:00-18:30

Mechanizing war and medicine: rationalized fracture care in World War I

Thomas Schlich (McGill University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 20 October 2009, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Pregnancy, pathology and public morals: making antenatal care in early twentieth-century Edinburgh

Salim Al-Gailani (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 10 March 2009, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

How (not) to read the advertisements of oculists: records, testimonies and the strategy of personal encounters in the early 18th century

Karen Buckle (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 03 March 2009, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

The radical moisture between theology and medicine (13th–14th centuries)

Chiara Crisciani (University of Pavia).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 24 February 2009, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The diseased convict and the Australian voyage: medical knowledge, penal reform and colonisation

Katherine Foxhall (University of Manchester).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 17 February 2009, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

JBS Haldane on the role of disease in evolution (1949): sickle cell anaemia, ecology, evolutionary medicine, and feeding the world

Andy Hammond (University College London).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 16 February 2009, 13:00-14:15

Early Science and Medicine

'Atomism' and the criterion of truth: Asclepiades of Bithynia's appropriations of Epicureanism

David Leith (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 10 February 2009, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Womb with a view: transforming obstetric ultrasound into a consumer experience

Deborah Nicholson (University of the West of Scotland, Paisley).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 03 February 2009, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

History and philosophy of regulatory science: the case of pharmaceuticals

John Abraham (University of Sussex).

Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 29 January 2009, 16:30-18:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Genetically ethnic? Medicine, heredity and immigration in post-war Britain

Roberta Bivins (University of Warwick).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 27 January 2009, 17:00-18:30

HPS History Workshop

Products of conception and the order of nature in Danish natural philosophy and medicine, c.1650-1800

Signe Nipper Nielsen (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 21 January 2009, 13:00-14:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Gynaecological fragments in a pragmatic archbishop's handbook: the Old English 'Formation of the Foetus' in context

Conan Doyle (Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 20 January 2009, 17:00-18:30

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

Making the invisible visible: the hidden history of families, schools, civil rights, media and science in the production of learning disabilities

Rayna Rapp (New York University).

Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 04 December 2008, 16:30-18:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Segments and proportions: body mapping in early twentieth-century neuroscience

Katja Guenther (Harvard University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 02 December 2008, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Space and spectacle in the Renaissance apothecary

Evelyn Welch (Queen Mary, University of London).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 25 November 2008, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Midwifery practices and the fate of mothers and infants in late eighteenth-century Denmark

Anne Løkke (University of Copenhagen).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 18 November 2008, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Why do we want Aristotle to have been a biologist (given that he wasn't)?

Andrew Cunningham (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 17 November 2008, 13:00-14:15

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

'Der neue Trend – no smoking please!': creating the non-smoker in West Germany, 1945–1975

Rosemary Elliot (University of Glasgow).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 11 November 2008, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Perceptions of health in Roman Spain: preliminary research on the archaeological material from the Province

Patty Baker (University of Kent).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 04 November 2008, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Early-modern investigations on the nature of tarantism from Tommaso Campanella to Antonio Vallisneri

Guido Giglioni (Warburg Institute).

Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 30 October 2008, 16:30-18:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Picture perfect: from golden rules to golden boys

Suzanne Anker (School of Visual Arts, New York).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 28 October 2008, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The machinery of authoritarian care: representing and experiencing breast cancer treatment in 1970s Britain

Elizabeth Toon (University of Manchester).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 21 October 2008, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Towards a public health consciousness in medical science: plague in sixteenth-century Italy

Samuel Cohn (University of Glasgow).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 14 October 2008, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Working with beasts: animal societies in 20th-century popular culture

THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Amanda Rees (University of York).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 04 March 2008, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Thomas Willis and the pathology of sleep disorders

Sasha Handley (University of Manchester).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 26 February 2008, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Reproduction and religion: paediatrics and devotion to the Christ Child in the Central Middle Ages

William MacLehose (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 19 February 2008, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Biotrash: medical garbage in India

Sarah Hodges (University of Warwick).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 12 February 2008, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Serving men, serving gods: doctors and musicians in the ancient Greek world

Natacha Massar (Free University of Brussels).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 05 February 2008, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Embryo genesis: how a handful of scientists produced an American origin story

Lynn Morgan (Mount Holyoke College).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 29 January 2008, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Negotiating masculinity: hermaphrodites and sexual difference in Early Modern France

Cathy McClive (Durham University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 15 January 2008, 17:00-18:30

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

Proving a negative? How important was sexual abstinence during the fertility decline?

Simon Szreter (St John's College, Cambridge).

Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 29 November 2007, 16:30-18:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The science of self-destruction: animal suicide and the human condition

Duncan Wilson (University of Manchester).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 27 November 2007, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Through the eyes of a seventeenth-century physician: reassessing John Webster

Lindsey Fitzharris (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 20 November 2007, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Questioning the images of life before birth: Lennart Nilsson's fetal photographs in public debate

Solveig Jülich (Stockholm University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 13 November 2007, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Global prescriptions, local adaptations: South Asia, the WHO and the global programme to eradicate smallpox

Sanjoy Bhattacharya (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, UCL).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 06 November 2007, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Interrogating the prehistory of Caesarean section

Adrian Wilson (University of Leeds).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 30 October 2007, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Do females have a choice? Darwin, the breeders and the problem of female choice

Evelleen Richards (University of Sydney).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 23 October 2007, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

How psychology lost its drive: the establishment of child psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital, 1923-1938

Bonnie Evans (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 16 October 2007, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Fraud, sorcery and medicine in the 1540s: the double life of Gregory Wisdom

Alec Ryrie (Durham University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 09 October 2007, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Infection and imagination: Robert Koch and tropical medicine

Christoph Gradmann (University of Oslo).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 13 March 2007, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

‘Murderous pity?’ Active euthanasia in early modern medicine and society

Michael Stolberg (University of Würzburg).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 06 March 2007, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

The concept of generation: historical and theoretical perspectives

Sigrid Weigel (Centre for Literature Research, Berlin).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 27 February 2007, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

‘The dog days’: rabies in England, 1830–1860

Michael Worboys and Neil Pemberton (University of Manchester).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 20 February 2007, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Dreams of plenty: domestic economy in the writings of Hugh Platt

Ayesha Mukherjee (Trinity College).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 13 February 2007, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Why write a history of both red and green biotech? The controversies over DES in post-war France and the United States

Jean-Paul Gaudillière (CERMES, Paris).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 06 February 2007, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Queer feet: tracing the normal and the pathological in nineteenth-century movement studies

Andreas Mayer (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 30 January 2007, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Making more out of meat in eighteenth-century Paris

Emma Spary (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 23 January 2007, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The H-bomb, fishermen and an unusual infection: the Bikini incident and the rise of a new medicine in Cold War Japan

Aya Homei (University of Manchester).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 28 November 2006, 17:00-18:30

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

Doctors, motherhood and insanity of childbirth in Victorian Britain

Hilary Marland (University of Warwick).

Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 23 November 2006, 16:30-18:00

Early Science and Medicine

'Desperate and incurable': defining breast cancer in England c.1550-1800

Marjo Kaartinen (University of Turku).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 21 November 2006, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Nature, nurture or neither? Some Hippocratic generations of difference

Rebecca Flemming (Faculty of Classics).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 14 November 2006, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

From standardization to welfare: the origins of the '3 Rs' approach to managing laboratory animals

Robert Kirk (University of Manchester).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 07 November 2006, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

The renaissance tomato, from botanical curiosity to culinary condiment

David Gentilcore (University of Leicester).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 31 October 2006, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

'It's all in the blood': thoroughbred racehorse reproduction

Rebecca Cassidy (Goldsmiths College, London).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 24 October 2006, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Thinking in posters: AIDS and the power of the visual

Roger Cooter (University College London) and Claudia Stein (University of Warwick).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 17 October 2006, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Sterility and the disordered household in Early Modern England and France

Lisa Smith (University of Saskatchewan).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 10 October 2006, 17:00-18:30