Michaelmas Term 2012 History of Medicine Seminar Series
Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine,
Seminar Room, 47 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PE

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

‘Health and Medicine in Britain and its Empire’
Convener: Professor Mark Harrison

Week 4 – 29 October
Saurabh Mishra, University of Sheffield
The Land of Milk and Honey: Dairy Consumption, Public Health and Middle Class Anxiety in North India, 1880-1920

About the speaker
Dr Saurabh Mishra read history at Delhi University, at Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi), and completed his Ph.D. at University of Oxford (2008). He subsequently held a Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship at the University of Oxford for a project on disease, famines and livestock in colonial North India, and joined the History Department at the University of Sheffield in September 2012. He is  currently working on his second manuscript, titled Beastly Burdens of the Raj: Livelihood, Livestock and Veterinary Health in North India, 1790-1920 (to be published in 2013).

Selected publications
– Pilgrimage, Politics and Pestilence: The Haj from the Indian Subcontinent, 1860-1920, Oxford University Press, India, 2011. Bodleian Libraries copies available

– ‘Of Poisoners, Tanners and the British Raj: Cattle Poisoning and the Making of the Chamar Caste in Colonial North India, 1850-1880’, in Indian Economic and Social History Review (vol. 48, no. 3, September 2011).

– ‘Beasts, Murrains and the Raj: Reassessing Colonial Medicine from the Veterinary Perspective, 1860-1900’, in Bulletin of the History of Medicine (vol. 85, no. 4, Winter 2011).

Image from NLS Medical History of British India

Related Links

• SOLO Library Catalogue – search Oxford libraries online
• Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine events webpage
• Medical History of British India by National Library of Scotland

Female patient with bubonic plague in India (c) Wellcome Library, London

Michaelmas Term 2012 History of Medicine Seminar Series
Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine,
Seminar Room, 47 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PE

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

‘Health and Medicine in Britain and its Empire’
Convener: Professor Mark Harrison

Week 3 – 22 October
Samiksha Sehrawat, University of Newcastle
Constructing Colonial Patients: Gender and Ethnicity in North Indian Hospitals, c.1880-1920

About the speaker
Dr Sehrawat is Lecturer in the History of Medicine and South Asia at Newcastle University, and was formerly a Research Officer at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford. She works on the history of the rapidly expanding colonial medical infrastructure at the national, provincial and local levels by examining how the colonial state viewed provision of health care for Indians. Her research also explores the social history of hospitals through the experiences of Indian troops (‘sepoys’) and rural Indian women in the twentieth century. She is currently working on a British Academy funded project ‘History of Women’s Hospitals in Colonial India, c.1885-1920’.

Publications
•     Sehrawat S. “Prejudices Clung to by the Natives”: Ethnicity in the Indian Army and Hospitals for Sepoys, c.1870s-90s. In: Pati, B., Harrison, M, ed. The Social History of Health and Medicine in Colonial India. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2009, pp.151-72. WEL copy at R605 SOC 2009

•     Sehrawat S. “Hostages in our Camp”: Military Collaboration between Princely India and the British Raj, c.1880-1920. In: Pati, B., Ernst, W, ed. India’s Princely States: People, Princes and Colonialism. London and New York: Routledge, 2007, pp.118-38. Copy held in Bodleian Library

•     Sehrawat S. The Foundation of the Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital for Women at Delhi: Issues in Women’s Medical Education and Imperial Governance. In: Kak, S., Pati, B, ed. Exploring Gender Equations: Colonial and Post-Colonial India. New Delhi: Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, 2005, pp.117-46. Copy held in Bodleian Library

Related Links

• SOLO Library Catalogue – search Oxford libraries online
• Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine events webpage
• Medical History of British India by National Library of Scotland

Next term’s Wellcome Unit Seminars have been announced.  Convened by the Unit’s Professor Mark Harrison, they are all on the topic of ‘Health and Medicine in Britain and its Empire’.

Michaelmas Term 2012 Seminar Series
Michaelmas Term 2012 History of Medicine Seminar Series
Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine,
Seminar Room, 47 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PE

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

‘Health and Medicine in Britain and its Empire’
Convener: Professor Mark Harrison

Week 1 – 8 October
Mark Harrison, University of Oxford
Yellow Fever and the Victorian Navy

Week 2 – 15 October
John Stewart, Glasgow Caledonian University/University of Oxford
“Some Abstract Socialist Idea or Principle”: The Impact of New Zealand’s 1938 Social Security Act on British Thinking about Health Care Reform

Week 3 – 22 October
Samiksha Sehrawat, University of Newcastle
Constructing Colonial Patients: Gender and Ethnicity in North Indian Hospitals, c.1880-1920

Week 4 – 29 October
Saurabh Mishra, University of Sheffield
The Land of Milk and Honey: Dairy Consumption, Public Health and Middle Class Anxiety in North India, 1880-1920

Week 5 – 5 November
**NO SEMINAR**

Week 6 – 12 November
Vaughan Dutton, University of Oxford
Using Jungian Analytical Psychology to do History: An Imaginal Analysis of the 1841 Niger Expedition

Week 7 – 19 November
Rohan Deb Roy, University of Cambridge
Science, Materials and Empire: Making Pure Quinine in British India, 1867-1890

Week 8 – 26 November
Michael Worboys, University of Manchester
“Saving the Lives of Our Dogs”: The Development of Canine Distemper Vaccine in Interwar Britain

Related Links: WUHMO  Events webpage