SEMINAR PROGRAMME 2009-2010

All seminars will take place at 5pm, Room R.014 in the Ramphal Building
Convenor: Dr Mathew Thomson (M.Thomson@warwick.ac.uk)
Enquiries: Hist.Med@warwick.ac.uk

Autumn Term 2009

Tuesday, 6th October (Week 1) 
Dr Jonathan Toms (Warwick)
Democracy and Mental Health: An Analysis of an Interwar Experiment and Some Reflections on its Relevance to the History of Psychiatry

Tuesday, 20th October (Week 3) 
Alun Withey (Swansea)
Worlds of Goods or Vulgar Counters? Provincial Apothecaries and the Early Modern Medical Marketplace

Tuesday, 3rd November (Week 5) 
Dr Tania Woloshyn (Richmond)
Luminaries of Fin-de-siècle France: Aesthetic, Scientific and Medical Cultures of Light, c. 1880-1930

Tuesday, 17th November (Week 7) 
Dr Michael Bresalier (Bristol)
Uses of a Pandemic: Forging the Identities of “Spanish Flu” and Virus Research in Interwar Britain

Tuesday, 1st December (Week 9) 
Dr Lutz Sauerteig (Durham)
Loss of Innocence: The Shaping of Childhood Sexuality around 1900

Spring Term 2010

Tuesday, 12th January (Week 1/11) 
Prof Lenore Manderson (Monash)
Hookworm and the Imaginery in Early Public Health Campaigns

Tuesday, 26th January (Week 3/13) 
Dr Roberta Bivins (Warwick)
Good Doctors, Bad Blood: Immigrants, Anaemias, and Genetic Medicine

Tuesday, 9th February (Week 5/15) 
Dr Kenton Kroker (Toronto)
Epidemic Encephalitis and the Making of the Biomedical Brain

Tuesday, 23rd February (Week 7/17) 
Ms Signe Nipper Nielsen (Cambridge)
Scientific playfulness in anatomist Thomas Bartholin's (1616-1680) studies of products of generation

Tuesday, 9th March (Week 9/19) - CANCELLED
Dr Hal Cook (UCL)
Commerce, Medicine and Science Revisited: Exchanging Information in the Dutch Golden Age 

Summer Term 2010

Tuesday, 27th April (Week 1/20)
Dr Ian Burney & Dr Neil Pemberton (CHSTM Mancherster)
Bruised Witness: Bernard Spilsbury and the performance of twentieth-century forensic expertise

Tuesday, 11th May (Week 3/23)
Professor Margot Finn (Warwick)
The Private Life of Public Health: East India Company Surgeons, Medicine and the Domestic Sphere, c. 1750-1850