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Department of History and Philosophy of Science

University of Cambridge

History of Medicine Seminars

Lent Term 2008

Seminars are on Tuesdays from 5.00 to 6.30pm in Seminar Room 1. Tea is
available from 4.40pm. All welcome!

***Early Medicine and Natural Philosophy***

Organised by Lauren Kassell, Rob Ralley and Laurence Totelin.

15 January            Cathy McClive (Durham University)

Negotiating masculinity: hermaphrodites and sexual difference in Early
Modern France

5 February             Natacha Massar (Free University of Brussels)

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

26 February          Sasha Handley (University of Manchester)

Thomas Willis and the pathology of sleep disorders

***History of Modern Medicine and Biology***

Organised by Ayesha Nathoo and Vanessa Heggie.

12 February          Sarah Hodges (University of Warwick)

Biotrash: medical garbage in India

4 March Amanda Rees (University of York)

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

***From Generation to Reproduction***

This seminar, which is funded by our Wellcome enhancement award in the
history of medicine, is a forum for discussion of how, since 1500, our
world of reproductive practices and controversy was created. Organised
by Jim Secord.

29 January            Lynn Morgan (Mount Holyoke College)

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

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

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

Dr Lauren Kassell

University Lecturer in History & Philosophy of Science

Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge

+44 1223 (7)67173 (HPS)

+44 1223 (3)30897 (Pembroke)