A new academic seminar series organised by a group of historians of medicine based at London universities and hosted by the Wellcome Library will start to meet in 2012-13.
The series will be focused on pre-modern medicine, which we take to cover European and non-European history before the 20th century (antiquity, medieval and early modern history, some elements of 19th-century medicine). The seminars are open to all.
Programme for 2012-13
2012
4 December - Sam Cohn (University of Glasgow )
Plague and ‘Syphilis’ in Early ModernEurope : the Rise of Cultural Toxins
2013
5 February - Alun Withey (University of Exeter )
Politeness and Pogonotomy: Shaving and Masculinity in GeorgianBritain
19 February - Helen King (Open University)
Agnodice’s First Patient: Gendering Childbirth in Antiquity and Early Modern Europe
5 March - Silvia de Renzi (Open University)
Hippocrates on the Tiber: Airs and Diseases in the Making of BaroqueRome
All seminars will take place in the Wellcome Library, 2nd floor,183 Euston Road, NW1 2BE . Please deposit bags and coats in the ground floor cloakroom and meet in the 2nd floor foyer. Doors at 6pm prompt, seminars will start at 6.15.
Organising Committee: Elma Brenner (Wellcome Library), Sandra Cavallo (RHUL), John Henderson (BirkbeckUL) Colin Jones (QMUL, convenor), William MacLehose (UCL), Anna Maerker (KCL). Christelle Rabier (LSE), Patrick Wallis (LSE), Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (Goldsmiths).
Enquiries to Ross MacFarlane (Wellcome Library: [email protected]) or Prof. Colin Jones (Queen Mary University of London: [email protected]).
Image: Anatomical Theatre in Leiden from Les delices de Leide, une des célèbres villes de l'Europe, Leiden: P. van der Aa, 1712.
The series will be focused on pre-modern medicine, which we take to cover European and non-European history before the 20th century (antiquity, medieval and early modern history, some elements of 19th-century medicine). The seminars are open to all.
Programme for 2012-13
2012
20 November - Jonathan Barry & Peter Elmer (both University of Exeter )
Understanding Medical Practice in Early ModernEngland : biography and prosopography
Understanding Medical Practice in Early Modern
4 December - Sam Cohn (
Plague and ‘Syphilis’ in Early Modern
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2013
22 January - Lisa Smith (University of Saskatchewan )
Fertility Troubles and Domestic Medical Knowledge in Eighteenth-CenturyFrance and England
Fertility Troubles and Domestic Medical Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century
5 February - Alun Withey (
Politeness and Pogonotomy: Shaving and Masculinity in Georgian
19 February - Helen King (Open University)
Agnodice’s First Patient: Gendering Childbirth in Antiquity and Early Modern Europe
5 March - Silvia de Renzi (Open University)
Hippocrates on the Tiber: Airs and Diseases in the Making of Baroque
All seminars will take place in the Wellcome Library, 2nd floor,
Organising Committee: Elma Brenner (Wellcome Library), Sandra Cavallo (RHUL), John Henderson (BirkbeckUL) Colin Jones (QMUL, convenor), William MacLehose (UCL), Anna Maerker (KCL). Christelle Rabier (LSE), Patrick Wallis (LSE), Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (Goldsmiths).
Enquiries to Ross MacFarlane (Wellcome Library: [email protected]) or Prof. Colin Jones (Queen Mary University of London: [email protected]).
Image: Anatomical Theatre in Leiden from Les delices de Leide, une des célèbres villes de l'Europe, Leiden: P. van der Aa, 1712.