Trinity Term 2011 Seminar Series
Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine,
Seminar Room, 47 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PE
Mondays at 2pm
Disease and Changing Environments
Convener: Dr Erica Charters
Week 1 – 2 May
Bank Holiday – No Seminar
Week 2 – 9 May
Jane Webster, University of Newcastle
Air, Space and Water Enough: Perceptions of African “Hardiness” in the Eighteenth-century Slave Trade
Week 3 – 16 May
Rosemary Wall, King’s College London
Constructing Colonial Public Health Nurses: Encounters with Training, Practice and Environments in 1920s Britain, North America and Malaya
Week 4 – 23 May
Ulrich Tröhler, University of Bern
Medical History Textbooks and Review Articles too often fail to Take Account of Progress in Historical Research
Week 5 – 30 May
Bank Holiday – No Seminar
Week 6 – 6 June
Kate Marsh, University of Liverpool
‘Rights of the Individual’, Indentured Labour and Indian Workers: Medical Discourse and the Slavery Debate in the French Antilles post-1848
Week 7 – 13 June
Paul Slack, University of Oxford
Plague in Europe 1350-1750: Some Reflections
Week 8 – 20 June
Lisa Smith, University of Saskatchewan
Debility and the Limits of Health Decision-making in Eighteenth-century England and France
For details of other events please see http://www.wuhmo.ox.ac.uk/events/index.htm
WUHMO 2011 Trinity Term Seminar Series
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