At: The Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine
Seminar Room, 47 Banbury Road, Oxford
30 April 2012
Medicine, Leisure and the Arts
Convener: Dr Elise Smith

Andrew Mangham, University of Reading
Science and Storytelling: the Burden of Truth in Nineteenth-century Medical Jurisprudence and Popular Literature

Coffee is available from 2.00pm – Seminars begin at 2.15pm prompt
All are welcome to join the speaker for lunch beforehand.  Please contact Elise Smith (elise.smith@wuhmo.ox.ac.uk) for more details.

About the speaker
Dr Andrew Mangham is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Reading, who specialises in the intersections between medicine and literature in the nineteenth century.

The following works by Dr Mangham are held in the Bodleian Library’s Gladstone Link:

• Violent Women and Sensation Fiction: Crime, Medicine and Victorian Popular Fiction (2007)
• (With Greta Depledge), The Female Body in Medicine and Literature (2011)
• ‘How Do I Look? Dysmorphophobia and Obsession at the Fin de Siècle‘, in Neurology and Literature at the Fin de Siècle, ed. by Anne Stiles (2007)

The complete list of seminars for Trinity Term 2012 can be found at
http://www.wuhmo.ox.ac.uk/events/index.htm

Related links: Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine Oxford

Woman making pemmican - image from nativeaccess.com

Trinity Term 2012 Seminar Series

At: The Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine
Seminar Room, 47 Banbury Road, Oxford

Medicine, Leisure and the Arts
Convener: Dr Elise Smith

Week 1 – 23 April
Vanessa Heggie, University of Cambridge
‘A New History of Bioprospecting: Technology and Physiology from Pemmican to Vibrams’

Vanessa Heggie is a teaching associate at Cambridge University’s Department of History of Philosophy of Science.  Her research interests arethe history of medicine & the life sciences generally 1800–present; scientific exploration, expeditions, and extreme environments; Polar expeditions, space travel and mountaineering; the history of physiology; field and laboratory relationships; topics relating to exercise, including sports medicine, sports science, and the Olympics; eugenics; health and lifestyle; public health and social medicine (esp. for the 19thC).

Vibrams - image by ChoonMing/Flickr

She has recently published a book entitled ‘A History of British Sports Medicine‘, which is available to consult in the Wellcome Unit Library at shelfmark RC1210 HEG 2011 and a copy is also available to be requested from the Bodleian’s bookstacks.

Coffee is available from 2.00pm – Seminars begin at 2.15pm prompt
All are welcome to join the speaker for lunch beforehand.  Please contact Elise Smith (elise.smith@wuhmo.ox.ac.uk) for more details.

The complete list of seminars for Trinity Term 2012 can be found at
http://www.wuhmo.ox.ac.uk/events/index.htm

Related links: Victoria Heggie’s profile | What is biorprospecting? | What is pemmican? | What are Vibrams?