The line up for the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine Michaelmas Term Seminar Series has been announced.

This term’s seminars are convened by Drs Erica Charters and Elise Smith on the theme of ‘Structures of Medical Knowledge.’

The seminars will be held on Mondays at 2.15pm at the Wellcome Unit Seminar Room, 47 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PE.
Coffee will be available from 2.00pm

Seminars are held at the Unit, 47 Banbury Road, Oxford

Week 1 – 14 October
Laura Dawes, University of Cambridge
Childhood Obesity in America: Biography of an Epidemic

Week 2 – 21 October
Rebecca Earle, University of Warwick
Casta Paintings and the Colonial Body: Embodying Race in Spanish America

Week 3 – 28 October
Claire Jones, University of Leeds
Selling Medicine to Professionals, Professionals Selling Medicine: Examining the Relationship between Market and Medic in Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth-century Britain

Week 4 – 4 November
Clare Griffin, University of Cambridge
The Russian State and the Early Modern Drug Trade

Week 5 – 11 November
Seth LeJacq, Johns Hopkins University
Reading the Sodomitical Body: Medical and Lay Body Evidence in English Homosexual Sex Crimes Trials, 1700-1850

Week 6 – 18 November
Roderick Bailey, University of Oxford
“My Oath! My Oath! I can’t do that kind of thing!” – Doctors and the Special Operations Executive: A Case Study of Medicine and Clandestine Warfare

Week 7 – 25 November
Sophie Vasset, Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7
Queen Anne’s Seventeen Pregnancies and her Treatment for Barrenness

Week 8 – 2 December
Vanessa Grotti, University of Oxford
Sociality and Healing within the Medical Missions among the Trio of Suriname and Brazil, 1959-1980

Related Links

• Find books on the SOLO Library Catalogue
• More about the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford

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

Related Links Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine Homepage

Cesare Ripa’s Iconologia (Venice: Presso Cristoforo Tomasini, 1645) via Internet Archive

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 8 – 4 March
Na’ama Cohen-Hanegbi, University of Tel Aviv
Between Humors and Sins – Treating Emotions in Late Medieval Medicine

About the Speaker
Na’ama Cohen-Hanegbi is spending the year 2012-2013 at Wolfson College, Oxford. She is a historian of medicine, with research interests in history of emotions, and religion and medicine.  Along with Dr Daniel Andersson she is organising a study day on the intellectual consequences of pastoral care from the late medieval to early modern period.

Related Links

• SOLO Library Catalogue – search Oxford libraries online
• Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine events webpage
• University of Oxford History Faculty
• Wellcome Library, London
• British Library

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 7 – 25 February
Sloan Mahone & Neil Carrier, University of Oxford
Mondo Medicine: On Jungle Doctors and the African Exploitation Film

About the Speakers
Previously a researcher at the Unit, Dr Neil Carrier has been involved in a wide range of research, mostly focused on the anthropology and history of East Africa and its diaspora. He has been working on a project examining the Somali-dominated Nairobi estate of Eastleigh as part of the Oxford Diasporas Programme team, exploring the historical and cultural underpinnings of Eastleigh’s diaspora-driven economy. Recently he has been involved in a number of projects relating to film and photography, in particular his work with Sloan Mahone and David Anderson on the AHRC-funded project ‘Trauma and Personhood in Late Colonial Kenya‘, examining the photographic collection of the late Edward Margetts, head of Mathari Hospital, Nairobi, in the 1950s. Neil has collaborated with the Pitt Rivers Museum on digitising a collection of photographs and negatives donated by Paul Baxter who conducted pioneering fieldwork in northern Kenya in the early 1950s.

Dr Sloan Mahone, organiser of this term’s seminar series, is Deputy Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine.  She specializes in the history of psychiatry in East Africa with an emphasis on the impact of ideas about the tropics within medicine and the psychological sciences.

Related Links

• Definition of mondo film on wikipedia
• Dr Carrier’s profile
• Dr Mahone’s profile
• Trauma and Personhood in Late Colonial Kenya project
• SOLO Library Catalogue – search Oxford libraries online
• Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine events webpage
• University of Oxford History Faculty