The following History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Research Seminars will be given at 2.15pm on Mondays in the Seminar Room, 47 Banbury Road, Oxford, unless otherwise noted.

Convener: Dr Atsuko Naono.

Coffee will be available from 2.00pm

‘Medicine in the non-European World’

Dr Nandini Bhattacharya, Dundee
25 Apr: ‘A pharmacopeia for India: Nationalist narratives in colonial India?’

Dr Jonathan Saha, Leeds
9 May: ‘Elephants and anthrax: Burma’s forests, imperial networks and the history of a vaccine’

Dr Simukai Chigudu
16 May: ‘Anatomy of African pathos: How a cholera outbreak became a national disaster in Zimbabwe’

Dr Hanna-Louise Clark
23 May: ‘Administering vaccination in interwar Algeria’

Dr Shilpi Rajpal, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali
Wed, 1 Jun: ‘From lunatic asylums to mental hospitals: Professionalization and medicalization of colonial psychiatry, 1895-1947’

Professor Kate Crosby, KCL
6 Jun: ‘Obstetrics as a model for Buddhist meditation in pre-modern Southeast Asia’

Dr Margaret Jones, York
13 Jun: ‘Policy innovation and policy pathways: Tuberculosis control in Sri Lanka, 1948-1990’

Please note: there will be no seminars on the two May bank holidays (2 May and 30 May)