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Jenny Reardon (UC Santa Cruz).
Tuesday 17 March 2026, 15:00-16:30
History of Medicine Seminars
History of Medicine Seminars are on Tuesdays from 5.00 to 6.30pm.
Seminars in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science are open to all members of the University (including academic staff, postdocs, postgraduate and undergraduate students, and affiliates). Unless otherwise specified, they are not open to members of the public.
Contact: David Thompson
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History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The birth of scientific anti-racism
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Early Science and Medicine
Public instructions, colonial distances: prize questions in the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences (c. 1770β1800)
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
How to master a zoonotic pandemic: plague, rats and epidemiological reasoning
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Visualizing difference: Amelia Newsham, John Hunter, and the refinement of racial knowledge
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Strategic adaptation: Dibia and the negotiation of medical authority in eastern Nigeria
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Mental healing and altered states in 20th-century China
Early Science and Medicine
Experimenting on/with eels: colonial space and electric knowledge construction in the 18th century
Early Science and Medicine
A press of death and prices? Reframing London's Bills of Mortality
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Genetics, infrastructure and historicity in the quest for the 'stolen babies' of Spain
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Devotion and deliverance: childbirth in middle English manuscripts
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Dengue in Campaign City: the spectacle of mosquito control in postcolonial Singapore
Early Science and Medicine
Experiencing and alleviating pain in a settler colony: Jamestown, 1607β1610
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
The fetus and the lamb: clinical trials and reproductive risks since the 1960s
Early Science and Medicine
Memory, cognition and selfhood in early modern British life writing
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Thylacine stories: mapping de-extinction
Early Science and Medicine
What Descartes's woodblock cutter knew: excavating knowledge from early modern images
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
How TV made 'The Naked Ape'
Early Science and Medicine
Concrescence in Mughal India: astronomical encounters at royal courts
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Along the thread of the mosquito ovary: apprehending malarias lost and regained
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
'Cut off from lineage': castration and childlessness in Mughal South Asia
Early Science and Medicine
The smallpox epidemic in 18th-century Tibet: theories, preventions and inoculations
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History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Swinging into crip time: teenage limb loss and art making in 1960s London
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Scientific perception, interpretation and prediction of the weather in late medieval England
Early Science and Medicine
Degree and dosage: rationalising therapy in the Long Renaissance (1300β1550)
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Neonates and neoliberalism in contemporary British history
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History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Early Soviet cinema, trauma and the psychoneuroses of revolution
Early Science and Medicine
Garga's knowledge of the crow (vΔyasavidyΔ) and the beginnings of South Asian ornithology
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
AIDS and the Naz Project: British Asian AIDS activism in the nineties
Early Science and Medicine
Self-translating science in early modern Europe: preliminary insights from the project Writing Bilingually, 1465β1700
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The global health focus on early life: origin stories
Early Science and Medicine
Artists as futurists? On the history of durability in art and the making of the future
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Brain studying brain: the neuro disciplines in the early Cold War
Early Science and Medicine
Women's medical books in the Crown of Aragon, 1300β1500
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
A postgenomic quilt: how endophenotypes came to revolutionize the meaning of genetic difference
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Whose problem? Gendering infertility in medieval thought, c.1150β1350
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The value of fieldwork in History of Science and Medicine
Early Science and Medicine
Cultures of curiosity in Polish/Royal Prussia, 1650β1760
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Slave trading and the imagination of the quantifiable body in the early modern South Atlantic
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Skin colour assessment in the age of biological diversity
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.1700β1730
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
Early Science and Medicine
The science of pleasure in early modern South Asia
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Plague and plantations: science, extraction, and global connections in Mauritius, 1899β1933
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Challenging the Hunterian hegemony: rethinking the visual culture of pregnancy in mid-eighteenth-century Britain
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Towards a social(ist) model of disability? Exploring the Soviet roots of twentieth-century disability politics
Early Science and Medicine
Splicing the soul: brain anatomy and interspecies difference in early modern Europe
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Baby Blues and BBC Television: Postpartum psychosis narratives, stigma and support in 1970s Britain
Early Science and Medicine
Towards a physical botany: the ascent of water in plants in seventeenth-century studies
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The campaign against leprosy in contemporary China
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
Early Science and Medicine
Digestion in Late Renaissance medicine and alchemy
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Professional ethics, medical professionals and the famine of 1932β1933 in Soviet Ukraine
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Challenging the Hunterian hegemony: rethinking the visual culture of pregnancy in mid-eighteenth-century Britain
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Early Science and Medicine
Mining ecologies: socio-natural landscapes of extraction and knowledge in the early modern period
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, 1890β1960
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
'Scandinavian, safe and sanitary!' The commercialisation of menstruation in Norway and Sweden, 1940β1990
Early Science and Medicine
Boiling it down: Chinese tea in the first Dutch medical journal, 1680β1688
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Live, and let live: medical recipes and technique of the socialized self across the Ming-Qing transition
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Finding women's 'everyday health': testimonies and experiences
Early Science and Medicine
'Description, figure and colour combined': in search of perfection in zoological representation, c. 1820β1850
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Overcoming childlessness: (in)fertility in early modern North India
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Humanising genetics: changing practices, emotions and identities of clinical genetics in the late 20th century
Early Science and Medicine
From indigenous panaceas to global drugs, or, how the Philippine plant igasud became the St Ignatius bean (c.1670β1750)
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
Early Science and Medicine
Thinking with sea monsters: re-thinking early modern maps and epistemic images
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
How silence became 'outdated': secrecy, anonymity and artificial insemination by donor, 1950sβ1990s
Early Science and Medicine
Authorship and mathematical skills between artisans and scholars: the geometries of SΓ©bastien Le Clerc (1637β1714)
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'The Great Kanto Earthquake' and 'Doctors, patients and the two languages'
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
A political ecology of horse breeding in early modern Spain and Spanish colonial America
Early Science and Medicine
Alhazen's Perspectiva legacy in science and art
Early Science and Medicine
Migrant miners and empires: the social technology of tin mining in the age of global trade
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Global actuarial science in the making of the universal healthcare system in the Republic of China, 1935β2010
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History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Finding women's 'everyday health': testimonies and experiences
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History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Insects and the infrastructure of Empire: tropical agriculture and biological control in early 20th-century Hawai'i
Early Science and Medicine
Contagion and the politics of maritime quarantine during the Marseille plague (1720)
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Black eugenics and the politics of reproduction
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
Early Science and Medicine
Lovesickness (ΚΏishq) in the Arabic medical commentaries (1200β1520)
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'She's wearing it!' Gender, tinkering, and the design of hearing aids
Early Science and Medicine
Arabo-Persian texts as a vehicle for transmission of medical knowledge in late medieval and early modern China
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Technoscience in the tropics: public agricultural research and environmental imaginaries in Brazil
Early Science and Medicine
Philosophy for anatomists: Francis Glisson and the peculiar fits of irritable matter
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Marcus Marci Von Kronland (1595β1667) on the embryo's ensoulment?
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Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Mismatched filiations: the family in German colonial surveys on indigenous law (c. 1910)
Early Science and Medicine
Ship tracks on European maps and charts, c.1500βc.1800
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'Constipated, toothless fatties': body and diet in twentieth-century Britain
Early Science and Medicine
The two lives of Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues: picturing plants in the 16th century
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The making of a Pastorian empire: tuberculosis and bacteriological technopolitics in French colonialism and international science, 1890β1940
Early Science and Medicine
Birth, fate, and Roman futures
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
As small as a grain of barley: the Bourbon state and the caesarean operation in New Spain, 1771β1810s
Early Science and Medicine
Wound Man: three early modern afterlives of a medieval surgical image
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Seed sovereignty and 'our living relatives' in Native American community farming and gardening
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Doctors v. midwives: Caribbean medical encounters in the age of pronatal abolition
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Renaissance eugenics
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The concept of 'disease carrier' in Western medicine
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The shadow of slavery: measuring miscegenation in the early 20th century
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Gender and generation in premodern Europe
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Microbe smiths: engineering microbial control in 20th-century Japan
Early Science and Medicine
The body whole and quotidian: experiencing the body in 18th-century Britain
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Europe in the global rise of reproductive rights: abortion and transnational feminisms (1960sβ80s)
Early Science and Medicine
The first Egyptian society
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Seeing like a welfare state: sickle cell disease, medical racism and patient advocacy in the National Health Service, 1975β1993
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Serological surveillance: transfusion, genetics and rare blood in postwar Britain
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Early Science and Medicine
Reconstructing Noah's ark in the 17th-century Dutch Republic
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
The maternal imprint: gender, heredity and the biosocial body
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
A good match: gender and the physiology of love in 18th-century Spain
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
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The Chinese calorie: nutrition science in early 20th-century China
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
The contraceptive pill in Ireland: activism, women's agency and doctors' authority in the 1960s and 1970s
Early Science and Medicine
Bodies diverged: cross-cultural translation of physiological knowledge in early modern Eurasia
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Early Science and Medicine
Learning medicine by the book: reading and writing surgical manuals in early modern London
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
In the same vein: the hepatitis B vaccine and America's dirty blood
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Alzheimer's disease: the history of a working title
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
A question of balance? Thinking about sexual health in medieval Europe
Early Science and Medicine
Smell and 18th-century medicine: 'powerful and active atoms'?
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Anatomy's photography: objectivity, showmanship and the reinvention of the anatomical image, 1861β1913
Early Science and Medicine
Ladies at sea: seasickness and the female body
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Changing understandings of the human fetus over five decades of legal abortion
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Total knowledge? Handbooks and encyclopedism in the 20th-century life sciences
Early Science and Medicine
Giants and national identity in early modern Europe
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Anatomy museum on the move
Early Science and Medicine
Surface thinking: skin in early modern medicine
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
From cures to courts of justice: medical encounters, the issue of generation, and social order in early modern Spain
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Folic acid between science, policy and the market: mainstreaming pre-conceptional vitamins in the 1980s and '90s
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
Early Science and Medicine
Missing friars: rethinking late medieval medicine
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
From pustulent penises to death by celibacy: thinking about sexual health in medieval Europe
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History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Living archives and dying wards: ethical records preservation at the Uganda Cancer Institute
Early Science and Medicine
From angel food to vegetable diets: medicalizing the feminine appetite in the British 18th century
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Psychedelic birth: bodies, boundaries and consciousness in the 1970s
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. 1948β1959
Early Science and Medicine
Writing the Scientific Revolution in Louis XIV's France
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'Living differently from now on': the utopia of abortion activism in 1970s France
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Handbuchwissenschaft, or: how big books maintain knowledge in the twentieth-century life sciences
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Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Poison trials, panaceas and proof: debates about testing and testimony in early modern European medicine
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Changing understandings of the human fetus over five decades of legal abortion
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Early Science and Medicine
Pain and physiological processes in sixteenth-century medical texts from Mexico and Spain
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Genes against beans: favism, malaria and nationalism in the Middle East
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Slaying (or at least taming) a dreadful monster: Louis de Serres' treatise of 1625 for women suffering from infertility
Early Science and Medicine
Sleep piety and healthy sleep in early modern English households
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'Don't eat the pudding': food and nourishment in the nineteenth-century English prison system
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The cult of youth: rejuvenation in interwar Britain
Early Science and Medicine
Knowing numbers, counting men: paper technology and manpower in the eighteenth century
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Regulatory regimes for diagnostic devices
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The place of birth: mothers, midwives, birth attendants, and choices about childbirth in twentieth-century Uganda
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Generation, demons and disease: rethinking gender in the Denham exorcisms, 1585β86
Early Science and Medicine
Individual complexion and personalized care in medieval medicine
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Spreading the good news around the world: international family planning prophets in the mid-twentieth century
Early Science and Medicine
Joachim Wtewael and the human body
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Malaria and the colonial frontier in Manchuria, 1905β1940s
Early Science and Medicine
The state of the environment: public health and technology in Renaissance Genoa
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Childless communities: early medieval monasteries and the history of (in)fertility
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Genomics and the industrialisation of medical tests, 1980β2000
Early Science and Medicine
The craft of healing, city guilds and vernacular print: Hieronymus Brunschwig's medical manuals, c. 1500
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Multispecies settlement in Palestine: the problem of infertility and the wonders of urine
Early Science and Medicine
Marriage, mourning and martyrdom: the history of an 18th-century English bed-sheet
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History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Picturing the unusual: medical photography as an 'experimental system'
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The anti-feminist construction of the 'midlife crisis'
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Eugenic sterilization in California: from demographic analysis to digital storytelling
Early Science and Medicine
Reading Vesalius 700 times: the problem of generation and the reception history of De humani corporis fabrica
Early Science and Medicine
From Petite Chimie to industrial chemistry: insecticides in France from the Old Regime to the Industrial Revolution (1750β1830)
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The life of forms: biology and modernist sculpture
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Making pregnancy public in seventeenth-century England
Early Science and Medicine
The foreigner's disease: global perspectives on syphilis in early modernity
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Bringing together family planning and parasite control: Cold War collaborations between Japan and South Korea
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The Colindale typers: bacteriophage and the British Public Health Laboratory Service
Early Science and Medicine
Graeco-Arabic science in medieval Jewish culture: evidence from the Cambridge Genizah collections
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Shortening hospital stays: clinico-economic dialogues in the 20th century
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
The seed you need: generation, reproduction and female orgasm in medieval Islamic medicine
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)
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The maternal-fetal relationship since 1900
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Of women and birds: the nesting instinct in pregnancy in the 20th century
Early Science and Medicine
Humours, spirits and souls: aetiology and therapeutics in medieval Islam
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History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The lost beasts: international palaeontology and the evolution of the mammals, 1880β1950
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Curing diseases and exchanging knowledge: sixteenth-century physicians and their female patients
Early Science and Medicine
Rethinking the one-sex body: sex, gender and medicine in the medieval world
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The medical book in the Victorian pornography trade
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
Early Science and Medicine
On the political use of physiognomy around 1500
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History of Modern Medicine and Biology
After the end of disease: looking past the epidemic narrative
Early Science and Medicine
Locked in colour: doctors and the bite of the tarantula
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'Highly coloured': race, ethnicity and the NHS
Early Science and Medicine
The 'consultations' of Dr William Cullen (1710β1790): creating a digital edition
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Women and children first: imaging medical genetics, 1950sβ1970s
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Malthus and the South Sea
Early Science and Medicine
Physic and divinity: the case of Dr John Downes (1626β1694)
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Autobiography and the crafting of identity in 20th-century American medicine
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Sizing up the pelvis: birthing technology in late 18th-century France
Early Science and Medicine
Casta paintings and the colonial body
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
One-seed, two-seed, three-seed? Reassessing ancient theories of generation
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'Operation ouch': America's response to polio before a vaccine
Early Science and Medicine
Patterns of medical practice in urban and rural England, c.1500β1720: a case-study of the South West
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Under the covers? Commerce, condoms and consumers in Britain, 1860β1960
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Mestizo genomics: race mixture, nation and science in Latin America
Early Science and Medicine
Medicine and learned magic in the late middle ages
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Off the reservation: how indigenous bodies became big data
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Menstrual time and the blood of stigmata: Catherine Cadiere and Father Girard, an 18th-century menstrual cause célèbre
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Pregnancy testing before DIY: rethinking the patient-doctor-laboratory relationship
Early Science and Medicine
John Graunt and the health of children in mid-17th-century London
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
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
From reductionism towards integration: systems biology as a scientific social movement
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Spiritual genetics: hereditary sin and religious genealogy in early modern England
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
One-sex, two-sex, them and us? Changing sex and challenging 'Making Sex'
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The multiple inventions of transgenic mice
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
The clinic of the birth: obstetric ultrasound, medical innovation and the clinico-anatomical project
Early Science and Medicine
Polite and excrement labour? Sanitary services in London c.1650βc.1830
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
The birth of gender: transforming sex at Johns Hopkins in the 1950s
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The 'premature arrival of the future': temporalities of cloning in 1970s life sciences and culture
Early Science and Medicine
Gendering Renaissance medicine: vicarious menstruation and anomalous bleeding
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
The lived experience of fertility problems in the 18th century
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Reinventing infectious disease: antibiotic resistance and drug development at the Bayer Company, 1940β1980
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Labour pains: historical reflections from 1760 to the present
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Moulded like wax, modelled in clay: votive offerings, swaddling and the making of infants in Hellenistic Italy
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Generatio: medieval debates about procreation, heredity and 'bioethics'
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
'No good fruit': attitudes toward infertility in colonial New England
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Test-tubes and turpitude: infertility and artificial insemination in mid-twentieth-century Scotland
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Health, height and intelligence in history: surveying the British population through the 20th century
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Generation to Reproduction Seminars
British 'sexology' and the uses of the past
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Revisiting the Mendelian revolution
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Rethinking generation in the late 18th century: the concept of 'reproduction'
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Temporal economies in fertility research in Germany, 1900β45
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Sarah Stone, William Cadogan and Enlightenment motherhood
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Race and population: fertility theories and the status of demography, 1920sβ1960s
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Encountering Aristotle's Masterpiece, or how to find a racy book about reproduction
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Spermatic animalcules and concepts of life around 1800
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Diagnosing child sexual abuse in early modern England
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Divorcing sex and reproduction: the discussion of artificial insemination in Britain, 1918β1948
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Pregnancy, pathology and public morals: making antenatal care in early twentieth-century Edinburgh
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
Early Science and Medicine
The radical moisture between theology and medicine (13thβ14th centuries)
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The diseased convict and the Australian voyage: medical knowledge, penal reform and colonisation
Cabinet of Natural History
JBS Haldane on the role of disease in evolution (1949): sickle cell anaemia, ecology, evolutionary medicine, and feeding the world
Early Science and Medicine
'Atomism' and the criterion of truth: Asclepiades of Bithynia's appropriations of Epicureanism
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Womb with a view: transforming obstetric ultrasound into a consumer experience
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
History and philosophy of regulatory science: the case of pharmaceuticals
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Genetically ethnic? Medicine, heredity and immigration in post-war Britain
HPS History Workshop
Products of conception and the order of nature in Danish natural philosophy and medicine, c.1650-1800
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Gynaecological fragments in a pragmatic archbishop's handbook: the Old English 'Formation of the Foetus' in context
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
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Segments and proportions: body mapping in early twentieth-century neuroscience
Early Science and Medicine
Space and spectacle in the Renaissance apothecary
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Midwifery practices and the fate of mothers and infants in late eighteenth-century Denmark
Cabinet of Natural History
Why do we want Aristotle to have been a biologist (given that he wasn't)?
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'Der neue Trend β no smoking please!': creating the non-smoker in West Germany, 1945β1975
Early Science and Medicine
Perceptions of health in Roman Spain: preliminary research on the archaeological material from the Province
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Early-modern investigations on the nature of tarantism from Tommaso Campanella to Antonio Vallisneri
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Picture perfect: from golden rules to golden boys
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The machinery of authoritarian care: representing and experiencing breast cancer treatment in 1970s Britain
Early Science and Medicine
Towards a public health consciousness in medical science: plague in sixteenth-century Italy
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Working with beasts: animal societies in 20th-century popular culture
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Early Science and Medicine
Thomas Willis and the pathology of sleep disorders
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Reproduction and religion: paediatrics and devotion to the Christ Child in the Central Middle Ages
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Biotrash: medical garbage in India
Early Science and Medicine
Serving men, serving gods: doctors and musicians in the ancient Greek world
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Embryo genesis: how a handful of scientists produced an American origin story
Early Science and Medicine
Negotiating masculinity: hermaphrodites and sexual difference in Early Modern France
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Proving a negative? How important was sexual abstinence during the fertility decline?
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The science of self-destruction: animal suicide and the human condition
Early Science and Medicine
Through the eyes of a seventeenth-century physician: reassessing John Webster
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Questioning the images of life before birth: Lennart Nilsson's fetal photographs in public debate
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Global prescriptions, local adaptations: South Asia, the WHO and the global programme to eradicate smallpox
Early Science and Medicine
Interrogating the prehistory of Caesarean section
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Do females have a choice? Darwin, the breeders and the problem of female choice
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
How psychology lost its drive: the establishment of child psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital, 1923-1938
Early Science and Medicine
Fraud, sorcery and medicine in the 1540s: the double life of Gregory Wisdom
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Infection and imagination: Robert Koch and tropical medicine
Early Science and Medicine
βMurderous pity?β Active euthanasia in early modern medicine and society
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
The concept of generation: historical and theoretical perspectives
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
βThe dog daysβ: rabies in England, 1830β1860
Early Science and Medicine
Dreams of plenty: domestic economy in the writings of Hugh Platt
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
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Queer feet: tracing the normal and the pathological in nineteenth-century movement studies
Early Science and Medicine
Making more out of meat in eighteenth-century Paris
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
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Doctors, motherhood and insanity of childbirth in Victorian Britain
Early Science and Medicine
'Desperate and incurable': defining breast cancer in England c.1550-1800
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Nature, nurture or neither? Some Hippocratic generations of difference
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
From standardization to welfare: the origins of the '3 Rs' approach to managing laboratory animals
Early Science and Medicine
The renaissance tomato, from botanical curiosity to culinary condiment
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
'It's all in the blood': thoroughbred racehorse reproduction
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Thinking in posters: AIDS and the power of the visual
Early Science and Medicine
Sterility and the disordered household in Early Modern England and France
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