Seminar programme 2004 - 2005
CENTRE FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE
Cultures and Practices of Health - Seminar Programme 2004-2005
'GLOBAL HEALTH, LOCAL BODIES'
Summer Term 2005
Thursday, 12 May
Javier Moscosco (Philosophy, Universidad de Murcia)
The History of Pain and the Art of Seeing in the Renaissance
Spring Term 2005
Wednesday, 12 January (week 2)
Dan O’Connor (History, Warwick / University of Wisconsin-Madison)
”Wife a Man”: Competing Discourses of Sexual Difference in the April Ashley Divorce Trial
Wednesday, 19 January (week 3)
Mary Fissell (Johns Hopkins)
Making Sense of Bits and Pieces: Reading Vernacular Medicine as Bricolage
Wednesday, 2 February (week 5)
Catherine Cox (History, Warwick)
Following Foucault to Ireland: Historians and the Dangerous Lunatic legislation
Wednesday, 16 February (week 7)
Sunil Amrith (Cambridge)
International Health: With and Without the Body
Wednesday, 2 March (week 9)
Cédric Cremier (Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, and Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, UCL)
Science at the Museum: The Museum of Obstetrical Anatomy of the Clinique Tarnier
Autumn Term 2004
Wednesday, 13 October (week 3)
David Nye (History, Warwick)
Professor Nye will lead a discussion on selections from Carolyn Thomas de la Peña, The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern American (NYU, 2003)
Wednesday, 27 October (week 5)
Anne Crowther (Glasgow)
Surgery and Empire: Lister’s students in imperial service
Wednesday, 10 November (week 7)
Rima Apple (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Training the mother: Early 20th-century infant-care advice in the United States
Wednesday, 24 November (week 9)
Sarah Hodges (History, Warwick)
What's Colonial About Colonial Medicine? Notes on Governmentality and Madras Presidency Lock Hospitals in the Hungry 1870s