Monthly Archives: April 2013

Wellcome Unit Library unstaffed Friday 26 April

The Library will not be staffed on Friday 26 April 2013.  We will be open as normal in the afternoons 2.15-5pm today (Thursday 25 April) and next week.

If you would like to make an appointment to visit the library please contact us.

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Wellcome Unit Seminar Monday 22 April

Treatments for syphilis by sweating, inhalation, and cautery. Credit: Wellcome Library, London.

Treatments for syphilis by sweating, inhalation, and cautery. Credit: Wellcome Library, London.

Trinity Term 2013 History of Medicine Seminar Series

Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine,
Seminar Room, 47 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PE

This term’s seminars have been convened by Dr James Kennaway on the theme of Medical Conceptions of Self-control and Social Control.  Each week we will post a blog on the upcoming seminar with detail of the topic and speaker.

The seminars are on Mondays at 2.15pm
Coffee will be available from 2.00pm

Week 1 – 22 April
Sam Cohn, University of Glasgow
Naming and Blaming in Early Modern Europe: the Case of Syphilis

About the speaker
Professor Sam Cohn‘s research interests include late medieval, Renaissance, and early modern Italy: social and economic history, plague, disease, demography, religion, sex and women, criminality, mentalities. Late medieval European history (Italy, France, and Flanders): popular revolt, state formation, disease and epidemiology, violence and persecution of the Jews. He is currently finishing a monograph for Cambridge University Press, entitled Popular Protest in Late Medieval Towns and has embarked on a new project, ‘Pandemics: Waves of disease, waves of hate from the Plague of Athens to AIDS’, funded by the Wellcome.

Selected Publications

  • Popular Protest in Late Medieval English Towns, (CUP, 2013) – In Press
  • ‘Hate in times of pestilence’ in Clio’s Psyche,  2012, 19 (2).
  • Cultures of Plague: Medical Thinking at the End of the Renaissance, (OUP, 2010). Available in the Wellcome Unit Library at RA650.6.I8 COH 2010 or as an eBook.
  • Lust for liberty: the politics of social revolt in medieval Europe, 1200-1425, (Harvard University Press, 2006). Print copies available in the Bodleian Libraries or as an eBook as part of the Bodleian Libraries’ ebook trial
  • The Black Death Transformed: Disease and Culture in Early Renaissance Europe, (Arnold, 2002). Print copies available in the Bodleian Libraries.

Related books in the Wellcome Unit Library

  • Claude Quetel,  History of Syphilis (John Hopkins University Press, 1992) at RC201.4 QUE 1992
  • Laura J. McGough, Gender, sexuality, and syphilis in early modern Venice : the disease that came to stay (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) at RC201.4 MCG 2011
  • Jon Arrizabalaga, John Henderson and Roger French, The Great Pox: the French Disease in Renaissance Europe
    (Yale University Press, 1997) at RC201.6.A6 ARR 1997

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Wellcome Unit Library unstaffed on Monday 15 April

DSCN4908The Library will not be staffed on Monday 15 April.  We will be open as normal in the afternoons 2.15-5pm for the rest of the week (16-19 April).

If you would like to make an appointment to visit the library please contact us.

Remote access for University members
Oxford University staff and students can still access many online subscription resources remotely using their Single Sign On.

These resources include:

  • eJournals via Oxford eJournals e.g. Medical History,
  • eBooks via SOLO – we have an extra large list of eBooks currently available as we are trialling a new eBooks package with over 100000 titles.
  • primary source databases via OxLIP+ e.g. Early English Books Online, Early European Books Online, The Making of the Modern World and many more resources covering from ancient to modern times.

Free online resources for all
There are also lots of resources available for free on the open web, including free eBooks on the Internet Archive, Gutenberg Project and Google Books.  We’ve bookmarked our favourite free History of Medicine related websites on Delicious.

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Trinity Term Wellcome Unit Seminar Series

Next term’s Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine Seminars speakers have been announced!  Over the coming weeks we’ll be posting blogs about each speaker and their research.  The seminars are being convened by Dr James Kennaway on the theme of Medical Conceptions of Self-control and Social Control.  Here’s the full line-up details:

Trinity Term 2013 Seminar Series
Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine,
Seminar Room, 47 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PE

The following seminars will be held on Mondays at 2.15pm
Coffee will be available from 2.00pm

‘Medical Conceptions of Self-control and Social Control’
Convener: Dr James Kennaway

Week 1 – 22 April
Sam Cohn, University of Glasgow
Naming and Blaming in Early Modern Europe: the Case of Syphilis

Week 2 – 29 April
Avner Offer, University of Oxford
A Warrant for Pain: Caveat Emptor vs. the Duty of Care in American Medical System, c. 1970-2010

Week 3 – No Seminar [Bank Holiday]

Week 4 – 13 May
Stephen Jacyna, University College London
La Propriété de soi: the Political Economy of the Self in Post-revolutionary France

Week 5 – 20 May
Sebastian Pranghofer, Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg
Military Medicine, Warfare and Civil Society in Eighteenth-century Germany

Week 6 – No Seminar [Bank Holiday]

Week 7 – 3 June
Iain Smith, University of Glasgow
Temperance and Medical Responses to the Alcohol Question in Scotland, 1829-2013: From John Dunlop to Minimum Unit Pricing

Week 8 – 10 June
Bernd Bösel, University of Vienna
An Anatomy of Enthusiasm

For details of other events please see http://www.wuhmo.ox.ac.uk/events/index.htm

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