Monthly Archives: January 2013

Wellcome Unit Seminar 4 February

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Cannabis Indica (Gunjah).(c) Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images

Cannabis Indica (Gunjah).
(c) Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images

Hilary 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 Sloan Mahone on the theme of ‘‘Local and Global Perspectives in the History of Medicine’.  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 4 – 4 February 2013
James Mills, University of Strathclyde
Globalising Ganja: The British Empire and the commodification of cannabis, c. 1860-1939

About the Speaker

James Mills is the Director of the University of Strathclyde section of the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare Glasgow (CSHHH). His current research interests include the history of drugs and intoxicants, and South Asian Studies. He is currently the UK member of an international, cross-disciplinary team which consists of psychiatrists, philosophers and historians which is working on the archives of the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurological Sciences (NIMHANS) in Bangalore.

Selected Publications

  • Cannabis nation : control and consumption in Britain, 1928-2008 (OUP, 2012) Available in the Bodleian Library
  • Drugs and empires : essays in modern imperialism and intoxication, c.1500 to c.1930 edited by James Mills and Patricia Barton (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) Available in the Bodleian Libraries
  • Cannabis Britannica: a social and political history of cannabis and British government, 1800-1928 (OUP, 2003) Available in the Bodleian Libraries
  • Madness, Cannabis and Colonialism: the ‘native only’ lunatic asylums of British India, 1857 to 1900 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2000) Available in the Wellcome Library at WEL RC451.I4 MIL 2000 and other Bodleian Libraries

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Wellcome Unit Library seminar 28 January

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(c) Wellcome Library, London

(c) Wellcome Library, London

Hilary 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 Sloan Mahone on the theme of ‘‘Local and Global Perspectives in the History of Medicine’.  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 3 – 28 January 2013
David Arnold, University of Warwick
Pollution and Public Health in Urban India, 1860-1984

About the Speaker
Professor David Arnold‘s work has ranged widely over the history of modern South Asia, and beyond, and has included social and environmental history and the history of science, technology and medicine. Along with David Hardiman he was a founder member of the Subaltern Studies group of historians of South Asia.

He is currently writing a history of South Asia and developing research on food and ‘everyday technology’ in South and Southeast Asia.

Selected Publications

Related new publications in the Wellcome Unit Library

  • Contesting colonial authority : medicine and indigenous responses in nineteenth- and twentieth-century India, Poonam Bala (ed.), 2012 Available at the Wellcome Unit Library shelfmark R606 CON 2013
  • Infectious disease in India, 1892-1940 : policy-making and the perception of risk, Sandhya L. Polu (2012) Avilable at the Wellcome Unit Library RA643.7.I4 POL 2012

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Wellcome Unit Seminar 21 January

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Hilary 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 Sloan Mahone on the theme of ‘‘Local and Global Perspectives in the History of Medicine’.  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 2 – 21 January 2013
Julie Marfany, University of Oxford
What Role Did Hospitals Play in Eighteenth-century Southern Europe? A Catalan Case Study

Casa de Convalescencia, (c) Josep Renalias

Old Casa de Convalescencia, Barcelona (c) Josep Renalias

About the Speaker
Dr Julie Marfany is Departmental Lecturer in Economic and Social History  in the History Faculty here at the University of Oxford.  Previously a fellow at Cambridge University, Dr Marfany is also an editor of the journal Continuity and Change.  Her research interests focus mainly on Catalonia and Southern Europe and various aspects of their social and economic history, including rural history and poverty.

Selected Publications

Land, proto-industry and population in Catalonia, c.1680-1829 : an alternative transition to capitalism? (Ashgate, 2012) Available in the Bodleian Library

Was there an industrious revolution in Catalonia? Rural History 2010 conference, University of Sussex, 13-16 Sept 2010. Available online from www.ruralhistory2010.org/Papers/Marfany.pdf

“Is it still helpful to talk about proto-industrialisation? Some suggestions from a Catalan case study”, Economic History Review, 63,4 (2010). Full text available via Oxford eJournals

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Wellcome Unit Seminar Monday 14 January

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Hilary 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 Sloan Mahone on the theme of ‘‘Local and Global Perspectives in the History of Medicine’.  Each week we will post a blog on the upcoming seminar with detail of the topic and speaker.

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

Week 1 – 14 January 2013
Chiara Beccalossi, Oxford Brookes University
Madness as a Magnifying Glass of the Normal: Italian Psychiatry and Sexuality, c. 1880-1910

About the Speaker
Dr Chiara Beccalossi was educated at the University of Bologna. She then did her MSc at Imperial College London and UCL, before obtaining her PhD at Queen Mary University of London. She held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Queensland and a lectureship in Gender History at Birkbeck University of London. She joined Oxford Brookes University in 2012. Her research interests lie in the fields of history of sexuality, gender, crime, medicine and human sciences in Modern Britain and Europe, and she is particularly interested in comparative and transnational history.

Selected Publications
Female Sexual Inversion: Same-Sex Desires in Italian and British Sexology, ca. 1870-1920 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). Available in Bodleian Library

‘The Origin of Italian Sexological Studies: Female Sexual Inversion ca. 1870-1900’, Journal of the History of Sexuality, 2009, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 103 – 120.  Available via JSTOR to Oxford University members

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History of Nursing Colloquium

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Canadian nursing in Boer War (c) Wellcome Library, London

Canadian nurses in Boer War
(c) Wellcome Library, London

Call for Papers:

The UK Association for the History of Nursing Colloquium will be held on 4 July 2013 at the History Faculty, University of Oxford.  This year’s theme will explore the ‘History of Colonial and post-Colonial Nursing’.

The history of nursing presents a unique perspective from which to interrogate colonialism and post-colonialism. Simultaneously, viewing nursing’s development under colonial and post-colonial rule can reveal the different faces of what, on the surface may appear to be a profession that is consistent and coherent yet in reality has many different faces and is constantly in the process of reinventing itself. Considering such areas as transnational relationships, class, gender, race, and politics this colloquium aims to present current work in progress within this field to better understand the complex entanglements in the development of nursing as it was imagined and practised in local imperial, colonial and post-colonial contexts. The colloquium will be led by Dr Helen Sweet and will be opened with a keynote paper on the colloquium’s theme by Professor Anne Marie Rafferty.

Please submit abstracts of approximately 250 words, by Friday 1 February 2013, to:

Christine.Hallett@manchester.ac.uk

N.B. As this promises to be a particularly popular colloquium and the audience capacity is strictly limited to max. 60 people, places will be allocated on a strictly ‘first come, first served’ basis so you are strongly advised to book early!

Price:  £10 for students and £15 for non-students.

There will also be a workshop for PhD students and their supervisors on Wednesday, 3 July, to be held at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford.

All enquiries to: Christine.Hallett@manchester.ac.uk

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