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Jenny Reardon (UC Santa Cruz).
Tuesday 17 March 2026, 15:00-16:30
Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The birth of scientific anti-racism
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Cabinet of Natural History
Books and/of botany within Hans Sloane's library collection
Early Science and Medicine
Public instructions, colonial distances: prize questions in the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences (c. 1770β1800)
Cabinet of Natural History
Telling plant stories: agency of botanicals in Cambridge's collections
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
How to master a zoonotic pandemic: plague, rats and epidemiological reasoning
Cabinet of Natural History
Kew Gardens Panel β Papers of natural history: publishing and archiving botany at Kew in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Visualizing difference: Amelia Newsham, John Hunter, and the refinement of racial knowledge
Cabinet of Natural History
The fisherman's catastrophe, the historian's problem: on historicizations of water bodies as Second Nature
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Strategic adaptation: Dibia and the negotiation of medical authority in eastern Nigeria
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Mental healing and altered states in 20th-century China
Cabinet of Natural History
Plant knowledge-making and the entanglements of natural things: investigations with Hans Sloane's herbarium
Early Science and Medicine
Experimenting on/with eels: colonial space and electric knowledge construction in the 18th century
Cabinet of Natural History
Representing the tropical 'hortus': natural knowledge in Michael Boym's Flora Sinensis (1656)
Early Science and Medicine
A press of death and prices? Reframing London's Bills of Mortality
Cabinet of Natural History
Christ and the mangrove: theology and botany in early modern Brazil
Coffee with Scientists
'Behavioural epidemiology': what triggers and enables large-scale behavioural change?
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Genetics, infrastructure and historicity in the quest for the 'stolen babies' of Spain
Cabinet of Natural History
Biblio-botany: early modern gardens in print and material culture
Coffee with Scientists
Vaccine communication and policy
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Devotion and deliverance: childbirth in middle English manuscripts
Cabinet of Natural History
Who was Henslow?
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Dengue in Campaign City: the spectacle of mosquito control in postcolonial Singapore
Cabinet of Natural History
Viral ghosts and specimen hosts: pathogen detection in natural history museum collections
Early Science and Medicine
Experiencing and alleviating pain in a settler colony: Jamestown, 1607β1610
Cabinet of Natural History
Resurrecting the list: exploring Coimbra Botanical Garden in 1800 through multi-species network visualisation
Coffee with Scientists
Phenomenological control in the laboratory
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
The fetus and the lamb: clinical trials and reproductive risks since the 1960s
Cabinet of Natural History
Practical environmental narratives: managing land in the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
Early Science and Medicine
Memory, cognition and selfhood in early modern British life writing
Cabinet of Natural History
Making communication common: information architecture, classificatory schemes and reference aids in the repositories of early scientific societies
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Thylacine stories: mapping de-extinction
Cabinet of Natural History
Seeking immunity: cacao research and the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, 1930β1940
Coffee with Scientists
Science advice under uncertainty
Cabinet of Natural History
Richard Relhan: can a portrait be reconstructed from the biographical bones?
Cabinet of Natural History
Planting crops, gathering knowledge: scientific objects, plantation economies and knowledge production in nineteenth-century Guatemala
Coffee with Scientists
TheCultureLab
Cabinet of Natural History
Cave science, bat guano and prehistory in the Malay Peninsula, c. 1900
Cabinet of Natural History
Vere, Lady Lynch (1647β1682): women colonists as artists and scientists in early English Jamaica
Cabinet of Natural History
'North to the future': deep ecological fieldwork in Arctic Alaska
Early Science and Medicine
What Descartes's woodblock cutter knew: excavating knowledge from early modern images
Cabinet of Natural History
Hybrid futures: unnatural acts in American gardens
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
How TV made 'The Naked Ape'
Cabinet of Natural History
Paradise lost: fashioning the East Indies aboard a VOC ship in 1623
Early Science and Medicine
Concrescence in Mughal India: astronomical encounters at royal courts
Cabinet of Natural History
'Making sense' of the prion hypothesis: theory and practice, 1996β2004
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Along the thread of the mosquito ovary: apprehending malarias lost and regained
Cabinet of Natural History
A polar conversation: studying the histories of the Arctic and Antarctic
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
'Cut off from lineage': castration and childlessness in Mughal South Asia
Cabinet of Natural History
Time, science and empire: cosmography and navigation in the Iberian monarchies in the 16th century
Cabinet of Natural History
University of Cambridge HPS MPhil Flash Talks
Cabinet of Natural History
Anthropology's queer histories: John Layard's homosocial milieu and encounters in the field in Atchin (1914β15) and Cambridge
Early Science and Medicine
The smallpox epidemic in 18th-century Tibet: theories, preventions and inoculations
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History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Swinging into crip time: teenage limb loss and art making in 1960s London
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Scientific perception, interpretation and prediction of the weather in late medieval England
Early Science and Medicine
Degree and dosage: rationalising therapy in the Long Renaissance (1300β1550)
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Neonates and neoliberalism in contemporary British history
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History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Early Soviet cinema, trauma and the psychoneuroses of revolution
Early Science and Medicine
Garga's knowledge of the crow (vΔyasavidyΔ) and the beginnings of South Asian ornithology
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
AIDS and the Naz Project: British Asian AIDS activism in the nineties
Early Science and Medicine
Self-translating science in early modern Europe: preliminary insights from the project Writing Bilingually, 1465β1700
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The global health focus on early life: origin stories
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Quantifying the human: values in measurement or measuring value?
Early Science and Medicine
Artists as futurists? On the history of durability in art and the making of the future
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Brain studying brain: the neuro disciplines in the early Cold War
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Margaret MacDonald's 1937 pragmatism
Early Science and Medicine
Women's medical books in the Crown of Aragon, 1300β1500
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
A postgenomic quilt: how endophenotypes came to revolutionize the meaning of genetic difference
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Whose problem? Gendering infertility in medieval thought, c.1150β1350
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The value of fieldwork in History of Science and Medicine
Early Science and Medicine
Cultures of curiosity in Polish/Royal Prussia, 1650β1760
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Skin colour assessment in the age of biological diversity
Early Science and Medicine
Food, drink and bodies in-between in the colonial space: culinary (re-)encounters at the Pietist Protestant Mission in Tranquebar, c.1700β1730
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
How the fetal period became part of the life course: birth cohort studies and prenatal development from the 1960s to the present
Early Science and Medicine
The science of pleasure in early modern South Asia
Cabinet of Natural History
Health knowledge and its gatekeepers: exchanges of knowledge between Tsimshian and Euro-Canadian missionaries in nineteenth-century British Columbia
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Plague and plantations: science, extraction, and global connections in Mauritius, 1899β1933
Cabinet of Natural History
Corresponding lepidopterists and the British Lepidoptera collection, Department of Entomology, British Museum (Natural History)
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Challenging the Hunterian hegemony: rethinking the visual culture of pregnancy in mid-eighteenth-century Britain
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Towards a social(ist) model of disability? Exploring the Soviet roots of twentieth-century disability politics
Cabinet of Natural History
Beyond 'polite science': middling women and the thirst for natural knowledge in the late eighteenth century
Early Science and Medicine
Splicing the soul: brain anatomy and interspecies difference in early modern Europe
Cabinet of Natural History
Embodied knowledge: riding Ottoman horses in Renaissance Italy
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Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Baby Blues and BBC Television: Postpartum psychosis narratives, stigma and support in 1970s Britain
Cabinet of Natural History
To drink or not to drink: understanding 'types' of water in seventeenth-century England
Early Science and Medicine
Towards a physical botany: the ascent of water in plants in seventeenth-century studies
Cabinet of Natural History
Erudite medicine in the vernacular: the early modern translations of Celsus' De medicina
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The campaign against leprosy in contemporary China
Early Science and Medicine
The history of medicine in early South Asia: using digital humanities to quell the panic of facing huge manuscript traditions and the value of doing research in plain view
Cabinet of Natural History
The nuns and the apothecary: transatlantic collecting in the eighteenth century
Cabinet of Natural History
Taming experience: Giambattista Da Monte's commentary on the Hippocratic Epidemics I
Early Science and Medicine
Digestion in Late Renaissance medicine and alchemy
Cabinet of Natural History
The many faces of meteorology: weather knowledge at the SociΓ©tΓ© Royale de MΓ©decine in the French Enlightenment
Cabinet of Natural History
Merchants of Enlightenment: making knowledge move between England and Sweden, 1700β72
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Challenging the Hunterian hegemony: rethinking the visual culture of pregnancy in mid-eighteenth-century Britain
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Early Science and Medicine
Mining ecologies: socio-natural landscapes of extraction and knowledge in the early modern period
Cabinet of Natural History
'Photography versus the pest': Shell chemicals, mass media and pesticides in post-war Britain
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Medicine workers in the mountains: upland gatherers in the Min River Valley and China's natural medicinal products trade, 1890β1960
Cabinet of Natural History
Water, politics and health across the Bay of Bengal
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
'Scandinavian, safe and sanitary!' The commercialisation of menstruation in Norway and Sweden, 1940β1990
Early Science and Medicine
Boiling it down: Chinese tea in the first Dutch medical journal, 1680β1688
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Finding women's 'everyday health': testimonies and experiences
Cabinet of Natural History
Natural gains or capital down the drain? The debate over the draining of the Haarlemmermeer
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Overcoming childlessness: (in)fertility in early modern North India
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Humanising genetics: changing practices, emotions and identities of clinical genetics in the late 20th century
Early Science and Medicine
From indigenous panaceas to global drugs, or, how the Philippine plant igasud became the St Ignatius bean (c.1670β1750)
Early Science and Medicine
Thinking with sea monsters: re-thinking early modern maps and epistemic images
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
How silence became 'outdated': secrecy, anonymity and artificial insemination by donor, 1950sβ1990s
Early Science and Medicine
Authorship and mathematical skills between artisans and scholars: the geometries of SΓ©bastien Le Clerc (1637β1714)
Cabinet of Natural History
Building authority: botanical workers in the British Empire, 1770s to the 1820s
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Cabinet of Natural History
Unicorn hunting? Ontologies and collecting in early 19th-century South Africa
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History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Serological surveillance: transfusion, genetics and rare blood in postwar Britain
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Cabinet of Natural History
Darwin and the dog breeders: on correspondence and class in 19th-century Britain
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Early Science and Medicine
Reconstructing Noah's ark in the 17th-century Dutch Republic
Cabinet of Natural History
Fossils in the Fayum: biogeography and colonial palaeontology in the 1900s
Cabinet of Natural History
Monkeys and modernity in colonial Myanmar
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Generation to Reproduction Seminars
A good match: gender and the physiology of love in 18th-century Spain
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'You have to incorporate the client's belief system... even when it is the opposite of your own': CBT and psychotherapy in Ghana since 1974
Cabinet of Natural History
Decolonising history of evolutionary biology: a perspective from 19th-century India
Cabinet of Natural History
Seeing like the sea: the pearl fishery of Ceylon as a maritime assemblage, 1799β1925
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The Chinese calorie: nutrition science in early 20th-century China
Cabinet of Natural History
'Home and colonial' wildlife literature around 1900
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
The contraceptive pill in Ireland: activism, women's agency and doctors' authority in the 1960s and 1970s
Early Science and Medicine
Bodies diverged: cross-cultural translation of physiological knowledge in early modern Eurasia
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Early Science and Medicine
Learning medicine by the book: reading and writing surgical manuals in early modern London
Cabinet of Natural History
'We the tormentors, the destroyers': death, emotions and gender in entomology
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
In the same vein: the hepatitis B vaccine and America's dirty blood
Cabinet of Natural History
Hybrid or chimera? Reinterpreting the botanical exchange of William Bateson and Erwin Baur
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Alzheimer's disease: the history of a working title
Cabinet of Natural History
It takes a village: the life and legacy of Henry Thomas Soppitt (1858β1899)
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
A question of balance? Thinking about sexual health in medieval Europe
Early Science and Medicine
Smell and 18th-century medicine: 'powerful and active atoms'?
Cabinet of Natural History
The lungs of a ship: labour, medicine and the maritime environment, 1740β1800
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Anatomy's photography: objectivity, showmanship and the reinvention of the anatomical image, 1861β1913
Cabinet of Natural History
Marginalia in the 'bible' of pollen analysis
Cabinet of Natural History
Men of eminence: science, photography and biography in the self-fashioning of Robert Hunt in 19th-century England
Cabinet of Natural History
Mexican science at the crossroads of French imperialism and Maximilian's empire (1864β1867)
Cabinet of Natural History
When is a cow not a cow?
Cabinet of Natural History
The politics of the potato in the 19th century
Early Science and Medicine
Ladies at sea: seasickness and the female body
Cabinet of Natural History
Meeting nature halfway: Georg Forster, mining, and the aesthetics of artifice
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Changing understandings of the human fetus over five decades of legal abortion
Cabinet of Natural History
The 'dye herbarium': capturing colour in botanical collections
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Total knowledge? Handbooks and encyclopedism in the 20th-century life sciences
Cabinet of Natural History
Building knowledge of the natural world: the historical and contemporary contributions of citizen science within the UK
Early Science and Medicine
Giants and national identity in early modern Europe
Cabinet of Natural History
Students, tourists and farmers: the publics of botanic gardens in the 18th century
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Anatomy museum on the move
Cabinet of Natural History
Georg Joseph Kamel (1661β1706): natural knowledge in transit between the Philippines and Europe
Early Science and Medicine
Surface thinking: skin in early modern medicine
Cabinet of Natural History
Printing, publishing and circulating books across Joseph Banks's empire
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
From cures to courts of justice: medical encounters, the issue of generation, and social order in early modern Spain
Cabinet of Natural History
Advijsen, old and new: the life span of VOC natural-historical information within the Dutch East Indies
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Folic acid between science, policy and the market: mainstreaming pre-conceptional vitamins in the 1980s and '90s
Early Science and Medicine
Missing friars: rethinking late medieval medicine
Cabinet of Natural History
Plant protection in France and Germany from the 1930s to the 1950s: the case of the Colorado potato beetle
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
From pustulent penises to death by celibacy: thinking about sexual health in medieval Europe
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Cabinet of Natural History
Isaac Van Amburgh the lion tamer: spectacle, education and natural history in Britain, 1825β1872
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Living archives and dying wards: ethical records preservation at the Uganda Cancer Institute
Cabinet of Natural History
Mountains, rivers and forests: the colonial mapping of southeast Asia, between observation and vernacular cartography in the 19th century
Early Science and Medicine
From angel food to vegetable diets: medicalizing the feminine appetite in the British 18th century
Cabinet of Natural History
The Curious Martin Folkes (1690β1754): sociability and collecting in the mid-18th century
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Psychedelic birth: bodies, boundaries and consciousness in the 1970s
Cabinet of Natural History
Elite paternalism and exotic drug demand in early modern France: the case of the Marquis de Louvois and quinquina, circa 1685
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'Since the introduction of the Sick Pay Scheme, sick absence has increased': sick pay, sick leave and sick notes in the nationalised industries c. 1948β1959
Early Science and Medicine
Writing the Scientific Revolution in Louis XIV's France
Cabinet of Natural History
Putting the pieces together: Canadian ginseng and botanical expertise in the French Regency
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'Living differently from now on': the utopia of abortion activism in 1970s France
Cabinet of Natural History
The long-lost Paston Collection
Cabinet of Natural History
Inventorying the Rhone: the scientific travels of Claude Jourdan collecting for the Natural History Museum of Lyon, 1834β1869
Cabinet of Natural History
Earthquakes, the end of the world, and perspectives on the Last Judgment (1686β1756)
Cabinet of Natural History
Watering plants, drying specimens: the Calcutta Botanical Garden and its fraught relationship with moisture (c.1864βc.1900)
Cabinet of Natural History
Beetles in a haystack: collecting insects via the eighteenthβcentury British slave trade
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Handbuchwissenschaft, or: how big books maintain knowledge in the twentieth-century life sciences
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Cabinet of Natural History
The Ambonese Rumphius and his inter-island information networks
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Cabinet of Natural History
A cabinet of natural history: the long-lost Paston collection
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Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Changing understandings of the human fetus over five decades of legal abortion
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Cabinet of Natural History
How to rediscover a medical secret in eighteenth-century France: the lost recipe of the Chevalier de Guiller's powder febrifuge
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Early Science and Medicine
Pain and physiological processes in sixteenth-century medical texts from Mexico and Spain
Cabinet of Natural History
Physico-chemical biology in practice, 1920sβ1930s
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Genes against beans: favism, malaria and nationalism in the Middle East
Cabinet of Natural History
Trees as keys, ladders, maps: a revisionist history of early systematic trees
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Slaying (or at least taming) a dreadful monster: Louis de Serres' treatise of 1625 for women suffering from infertility
Cabinet of Natural History
Joseph Banks: science, culture and the remaking of the Indo-Pacific world
Early Science and Medicine
Sleep piety and healthy sleep in early modern English households
Cabinet of Natural History
The first geological chronology of ancient Egypt and the antiquity of man, 1846β63
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'Don't eat the pudding': food and nourishment in the nineteenth-century English prison system
Cabinet of Natural History
Blood will tell? Constructions of the 'vampire problem' in the eighteenth century
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The cult of youth: rejuvenation in interwar Britain
Cabinet of Natural History
A silent servant of natural knowledge: the herbarium of 'The Flying Monk' Brother Cyprian
Early Science and Medicine
Knowing numbers, counting men: paper technology and manpower in the eighteenth century
Cabinet of Natural History
From natural histories to man-made futures: the origins and ends of R.A. Fisher's Darwinism
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Regulatory regimes for diagnostic devices
Cabinet of Natural History
Iron holds the whale
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The place of birth: mothers, midwives, birth attendants, and choices about childbirth in twentieth-century Uganda
Cabinet of Natural History
What's in a name? Negotiations of credibility and authority in the naming of the giant otter shrew (Potamogale velox)
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Generation, demons and disease: rethinking gender in the Denham exorcisms, 1585β86
Cabinet of Natural History
Experimental reconstruction of the bronze life-cast lizard of the Renaissance
Early Science and Medicine
Individual complexion and personalized care in medieval medicine
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Spreading the good news around the world: international family planning prophets in the mid-twentieth century
Cabinet of Natural History
'The motion of the blood is in fact a sort of living barometer': altitude sickness, poisonous plants and instrumentalised bodies in the Himalaya, 1800β1850
Early Science and Medicine
Joachim Wtewael and the human body
Cabinet of Natural History
On Tupaia Street: the travels of artefacts from Cook's first voyage
Cabinet of Natural History
Ten things you always wanted to know about Hans Sloane, founder of the British Museum... but were afraid to ask
Cabinet of Natural History
Exploring John Woodward's scientific writing in his catalogues of fossils (1728, 1729)
Cabinet of Natural History
Clas Fredrik Hornstedt, the 'last Linnaean' in the East Indies, 1783β4
Cabinet of Natural History
Poetic electrons: Ted Hughes and the mayfly
Cabinet of Natural History
When a stone is not a stone: doing alchemy with plants and animals
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Malaria and the colonial frontier in Manchuria, 1905β1940s
Cabinet of Natural History
Reading colonial photography: the publication and reception of A Phrenologist Amongst the Todas (1873)
Early Science and Medicine
The state of the environment: public health and technology in Renaissance Genoa
Cabinet of Natural History
James Cuninghame β 'a learned and most industrious promoter of natural philosophy'
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Childless communities: early medieval monasteries and the history of (in)fertility
Cabinet of Natural History
Natural history and the antiquarian
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Genomics and the industrialisation of medical tests, 1980β2000
Cabinet of Natural History
Natural history or psychology? Reading expressions and being read in Darwin's science of interdependence
Early Science and Medicine
The craft of healing, city guilds and vernacular print: Hieronymus Brunschwig's medical manuals, c. 1500
Cabinet of Natural History
Pathology and preparations at the Great Windmill Street School
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Multispecies settlement in Palestine: the problem of infertility and the wonders of urine
Cabinet of Natural History
The Endeavour journal and the natural historical working practices of Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander, 1768β1771
Early Science and Medicine
Marriage, mourning and martyrdom: the history of an 18th-century English bed-sheet
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Cabinet of Natural History
Preparing for doomsday: vulnerability and the contemporary history of genebanking, 1970β2008
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Picturing the unusual: medical photography as an 'experimental system'
Cabinet of Natural History
Piety, diligence and learning: knowledge of American naturalia in Abraham Hill's commonplace books
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The anti-feminist construction of the 'midlife crisis'
Cabinet of Natural History
Ethnographic collecting and the despotism of Joseph Banks
Early Science and Medicine
Reading Vesalius 700 times: the problem of generation and the reception history of De humani corporis fabrica
Cabinet of Natural History
The mine as a subterranean Kunstkammer
Early Science and Medicine
From Petite Chimie to industrial chemistry: insecticides in France from the Old Regime to the Industrial Revolution (1750β1830)
Cabinet of Natural History
Conrad Gessner, the Zurich Lectorium, and the study of physics and medicine in the early modern world
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The life of forms: biology and modernist sculpture
Cabinet of Natural History
Learning to know: the educations of Richard Hakluyt and Thomas Harriot
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Making pregnancy public in seventeenth-century England
Cabinet of Natural History
After Cook: Joseph Banks and his travelling natures, 1787β1810
Early Science and Medicine
The foreigner's disease: global perspectives on syphilis in early modernity
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Bringing together family planning and parasite control: Cold War collaborations between Japan and South Korea
Cabinet of Natural History
The natural history of the Napoleonic Wars: collecting at the East India Company c. 1798β1820
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The Colindale typers: bacteriophage and the British Public Health Laboratory Service
Cabinet of Natural History
'Why do entomologists want a weekly newspaper?': periodicals and the practice of nineteenth-century natural history
Cabinet of Natural History
The anatomy of touch: nature, knowledge and technologies of touch in the Renaissance
Cabinet of Natural History
Antiquities, past, and present: the Tradescant Collection and its rarities
Cabinet of Natural History
Georg Joseph Kamel (1661β1706): a Jesuit pharmacist in Manila at the borderlines of erudition and empiricism
Cabinet of Natural History
Intelligible design: the origin and visualization of species
Early Science and Medicine
Graeco-Arabic science in medieval Jewish culture: evidence from the Cambridge Genizah collections
Cabinet of Natural History
The physician's Stammbuch: humanist cultures of medical networking
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Shortening hospital stays: clinico-economic dialogues in the 20th century
Cabinet of Natural History
Locating indigenous knowledge in the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (1648)
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
The seed you need: generation, reproduction and female orgasm in medieval Islamic medicine
Cabinet of Natural History
Reviving the Royal Society in the early eighteenth century
Early Science and Medicine
A literary history of medicine: the world's earliest history of medicine, composed in Syria by the physician and poet Ibn Abi Usaybi'ah (d. 1270)
Cabinet of Natural History
Recontextualizing the George Brown Collection through creative ceramics
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The maternal-fetal relationship since 1900
Cabinet of Natural History
Participating in Victorian natural history through the illustrated periodical
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Of women and birds: the nesting instinct in pregnancy in the 20th century
Cabinet of Natural History
John Ray and Francis Willughby herborising around the lighthouse in Genoa in March 1664
Early Science and Medicine
Humours, spirits and souls: aetiology and therapeutics in medieval Islam
β οΈ This seminar will start an hour earlier than usual, at 4pm
Cabinet of Natural History
Invisible gardeners? The role of Scottish botanic gardeners in knowledge creation and exchange in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The lost beasts: international palaeontology and the evolution of the mammals, 1880β1950
Cabinet of Natural History
'Improvement': British colonial settlement and the environment
Early Science and Medicine
Rethinking the one-sex body: sex, gender and medicine in the medieval world
Cabinet of Natural History
From 'clap-trap and flummery' to 'scope and methods' β the Royal Geographical Society's lantern-slide lectures, c.1886β1924
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The medical book in the Victorian pornography trade
Cabinet of Natural History
Spicing up Mauritius' gardens: informal empire and the hybridity of knowledge and plant exchange in the East Indies, 1740s to 1770s
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Interracial relationships and the 'brown baby' problem: black GIs, white women and their mixed race offspring in World War II Britain
Cabinet of Natural History
The Norman Conquest of the materia medica? Expanding pharmaceutical horizons in 11th-century England
Early Science and Medicine
On the political use of physiognomy around 1500
β οΈ This seminar will take place an hour earlier than usual, at 4pm
Cabinet of Natural History
Systems, synonyms and strife β the making of European entomology around 1800
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
After the end of disease: looking past the epidemic narrative
Cabinet of Natural History
Order and object: constructing collections in late 18th-century France
Early Science and Medicine
Locked in colour: doctors and the bite of the tarantula
Cabinet of Natural History
Recovery after attack: 1960s radioecology and shifting conceptions of humans as agents of ecosystem change
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'Highly coloured': race, ethnicity and the NHS
Cabinet of Natural History
Is it one's cup of tea? Early-modern experimentation on tea as materia medica
HPS History Workshop
Tuning out knowledge: radio interface design in interwar Britain
HPS History Workshop
Rock, paper, patents: between intellectual property and embodied knowledge
Cabinet of Natural History
The elephant in the room: presence, practice and pachyderms in Victorian education
HPS History Workshop
John von Neumann, Alan Turing and the origins of cellular automata
Cabinet of Natural History
The hand of the naturalist: Charles Plumier, images and overseas natural history in late-17th-century France
HPS History Workshop
Pedagogy and the vernacular in medieval astronomy
Cabinet of Natural History
Beavers, brains, behaviour: the natural histories of 1950s psychiatry
Early Science and Medicine
The 'consultations' of Dr William Cullen (1710β1790): creating a digital edition
Cabinet of Natural History
Deadwood taxonomies: trees of nature before evolution
HPS History Workshop
Newtonian politics
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Women and children first: imaging medical genetics, 1950sβ1970s
Cabinet of Natural History
Jewellers, travellers and the classification of gems, c. 1600β1800
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Malthus and the South Sea
Cabinet of Natural History
Jan Swammerdam's visions of nature
HPS History Workshop
The making of the midlife crisis: psychology and feminism in the 1970s
Early Science and Medicine
Physic and divinity: the case of Dr John Downes (1626β1694)
Cabinet of Natural History
Verbal picturing and aesthetic experience in natural history, 1650β1720
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Autobiography and the crafting of identity in 20th-century American medicine
Cabinet of Natural History
Visions of useful nature in late-colonial Central America (c. 1770β1821)
HPS History Workshop
Finding drugs: Russia and the early modern global medicines trade, 1550β1750
Cabinet of Natural History
'O! How glad I am I have no pendulum': in pursuit of the figure of the earth
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Sizing up the pelvis: birthing technology in late 18th-century France
Cabinet of Natural History
Bringing ancient grains to life: Tutankhamen, Egyptomania and modernist enchantment in interwar Britain
HPS History Workshop
Research in psychiatry at a time of therapeutic optimism
Early Science and Medicine
Casta paintings and the colonial body
Cabinet of Natural History
Cabinets, eclipses and lightning rods: the role of curiosity in the perception of science in 18th-century Russia
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'Operation ouch': America's response to polio before a vaccine
HPS History Workshop
Crystals and optics: Huygens and Wollaston
Early Science and Medicine
Patterns of medical practice in urban and rural England, c.1500β1720: a case-study of the South West
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Title to be confirmed
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HPS History Workshop
Newton's chronology and the tradition of universal history
β οΈ Please note change of date
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Under the covers? Commerce, condoms and consumers in Britain, 1860β1960
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Mestizo genomics: race mixture, nation and science in Latin America
Early Science and Medicine
Medicine and learned magic in the late middle ages
HPS History Workshop
'Crackpots' and 'active researchers': the string wars, arXiv and the blogosphere
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Off the reservation: how indigenous bodies became big data
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Menstrual time and the blood of stigmata: Catherine Cadiere and Father Girard, an 18th-century menstrual cause célèbre
Cabinet of Natural History
Historical time, primitive peoples and the abyss of race: conceptions of temporality in German anthropology and folklore studies (1850sβ1930s)
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The realist stance
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HPS History Workshop
'Illuminating effects': visual culture and the exhibition of lighthouses in Victorian London
Early Science and Medicine
John Graunt and the health of children in mid-17th-century London
Cabinet of Natural History
Jean AndrΓ© Peyssonnel and the coral island
HPS History Workshop
Imagining ill bodies: the Basel Mission doctors and images from the Gold Coast, 1885β1914
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Representationalism and pragmatism
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Task-indexed belief
HPS History Workshop
The unknowable, the new reformation, and the rationale for religious freedom: the place of religion in Spencer's philosophy
Cabinet of Natural History
Industrial pollution and politics in France: the great shift, 1750β1830
Cabinet of Natural History
The sources of Charles Darwin's work on animal reasoning
HPS History Workshop
Pastoral modernism: the flying machine's arrival over the English countryside
Cabinet of Natural History
Apollonian vision and polar projections: some reflections on cosmography, instruments and empire
HPS Philosophy Workshop
What is empathy? A genealogical account
Cabinet of Natural History
Studied enchantment: the conjectural method in late Victorian scholarship
HPS History Workshop
The first Human Genome Project: computers and the mapping of human genes, 1950β1970
Cabinet of Natural History
Between universalism and regionalism: Nakai Takenoshin's research on colonial Korean plants and Japanese universal systematics
Cabinet of Natural History
William Courten (1642β1702) and natural history
HPS History Workshop
Dinosaurs don't die: the Crystal Palace monsters in children's literature, 1854β2001
Cabinet of Natural History
National types: the transatlantic publication and reception of Crania Americana (1839)
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The prospects for Darwinian imperialism
Cabinet of Natural History
What counts as threatened? Population biology, objectivity and the sixth extinction
HPS History Workshop
GrΓΌnthal, Nikolai Hartmann and Schichtenlehre: instituting brain anatomy in a 1950s Swiss psychiatric hospital
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The contingency of logical necessity: an analysis of a sociological account of logic
Cabinet of Natural History
Skeletons in the cabinet and the Grand Tour of anatomy
HPS History Workshop
Sensible error and other silly notions: galvanizing time in Victorian London
Cabinet of Natural History
Philology, mythology and geology in colonial India
HPS Philosophy Workshop
What is evidence?
Cabinet of Natural History
The elephant in the room: historians and scientists working together
HPS History Workshop
Spaces for debate between science and religion in Franco's Spain: the intellectual conversations of Poblet (1959β1961)
Cabinet of Natural History
The atom as metaphor: responses to atomism in 17th-century English literature
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The medicalisation of love
Cabinet of Natural History
Citizen Cuvier: radical appropriations of Georges Cuvier's law of correlation in Edinburgh and London, 1801β1837
HPS History Workshop
Finding space to swing a pendulum: the Board of Longitude and 19th-century geodesy, weights and measures
Cabinet of Natural History
The sources of Charles Darwin's work on animal reasoning
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HPS Philosophy Workshop
Location, multi-location and endurance
Cabinet of Natural History
Bringing up the body: psychology and embodiment in the 20th century
HPS History Workshop
'Contagious' delusions? W.B.Carpenter and the politics of psycho-physiology in 19th-century Britain
Early Science and Medicine
Polite and excrement labour? Sanitary services in London c.1650βc.1830
Cabinet of Natural History
'Dangerous and improper material': models, preparations and the relationship between object and user in 18th- and 19th-century anatomical collections
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Ontic structural realism and economics: the unwanted gift
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
The birth of gender: transforming sex at Johns Hopkins in the 1950s
Cabinet of Natural History
Willi Hennig and philosophy
HPS History Workshop
Illustrating Enlightenment science: women at the margins in 18th-century France
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The 'premature arrival of the future': temporalities of cloning in 1970s life sciences and culture
Cabinet of Natural History
Hidden in plain sight: early ecology as visual science
HPS History Workshop
The changing face of Penfield's homunculus
Early Science and Medicine
Gendering Renaissance medicine: vicarious menstruation and anomalous bleeding
Cabinet of Natural History
Anthropological field work in 'mixed race' Aboriginal communities in Australia, 1940β65
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
The lived experience of fertility problems in the 18th century
Cabinet of Natural History
The illustration and publication of Robert Morison's History of Plants (1672β99)
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Reinventing infectious disease: antibiotic resistance and drug development at the Bayer Company, 1940β1980
HPS History Workshop
Have you heard the northern lights? Science and re-enchantment in 19th-century Arctic exploration
HPS History Workshop
Laughing at the doctors: satire and public practice, 1660β1720
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The entrenchment of metaphors in scientific practice
HPS History Workshop
Mythologizing popular scientists: the cult of Feynman and the image of Sagan
Cabinet of Natural History
Seeing with words: tours, surveys and agricultural improvement in Britain, c.1770βc.1820
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Explanation in neuroscience
Cabinet of Natural History
Antenatal affairs: discourses of pregnancy and the unborn c.1900
HPS History Workshop
Liebig's vampire: agricultural chemistry and the embodied earth in mid-19th century Britain
Cabinet of Natural History
The education of Francis Willughby: new philosophy and natural history in mid-17th-century Cambridge
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Science, sexuality and transnational networks in South African AIDS activism, 1994β2001
Cabinet of Natural History
Impressed upon the countenance: knowledge and visibility in Lavaterian physiognomy
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Digital maps and minimal animals in movement ecology
Cabinet of Natural History
The natural history of the Chihuahua: canine mythology and the science of breeding
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HPS History Workshop
Varieties of tacit knowledge
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Labour pains: historical reflections from 1760 to the present
Cabinet of Natural History
Harvesting toads in South Africa for pregnancy testing in Britain
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Atomic energy and Britain's position in the world, 1954β56
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Scientific discovery and Wittgenstein's hinges
History of Medicine Seminars
From benchside to clinic: the rise of monoclonal antibodies in healthcare
HPS History Workshop
The meanings of a breakthrough: categories, news and priority in the making of transgenic mice
Cabinet of Natural History
Beefing up science: British Bovril, bulging biceps and nutrition science
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Scientific uncertainty and 'sufficient knowledge': the development of a European-wide research programme on acid rain
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Theory ladenness and narrative in the history of science: (how) can historical evidence support philosophical arguments?
History of Medicine Seminars
Mapping the medical marketplace: early modern Welsh practitioners and medical retail
Cabinet of Natural History
Romanticism, aesthetics and violence in natural history
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Moulded like wax, modelled in clay: votive offerings, swaddling and the making of infants in Hellenistic Italy
Cabinet of Natural History
When the archaeologists are searching for a legend: the (re-)invention of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The fall of Johnstown: exhibiting disasters at the turn of the 20th century
History of Medicine Seminars
Coping with recalcitrance: futility, frustration and failure in the history of cancer research
Cabinet of Natural History
'The man with the detective eye': observation in Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne (1789)
HPS History Workshop
Common sense and phrenology
Cabinet of Natural History
Vivisection by storytelling: the experimental novel in the late 19th century
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The training and practice of English medical professionals in ophthalmia neonatorum, c. 1900β13
HPS Philosophy Workshop
More models, more problems?
History of Medicine Seminars
Mental illness and cognitive impairment in central and late medieval Normandy: attitudes and responses
Cabinet of Natural History
Cabinet physics in 18th-century France: the case of the Iceland spar, 1710β1788
HPS History Workshop
Fashionable intelligence: popular experiences of galvanism and the Regency newspaper press
History of Medicine Seminars
Ordinary seamen, bodily knowledge and Royal Navy sex crimes trials, 1688β1783
Cabinet of Natural History
Birds of paradise and collecting Eden: mythogenesis in Renaissance natural history
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Joseph Rotblat: physics, the Bomb and some consequences
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Objectivity in psychology β a Kantian perspective
Cabinet of Natural History
Camelopardalis Giraffa in 1830s London: polite spectacle at Regent's Park
HPS History Workshop
Everything is illuminated: candles, funerals and sensuous technology in 18th-century London
History of Medicine Seminars
Group formations: surgeons and artists in Victorian group portraiture
Cabinet of Natural History
'The Age of Reptiles' and 'Memnonium or Head of Rameses': the frontispiece of George Fleming Richardson's Geology for Beginners (1842 and 1843)
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The Peckham Experiment
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Mind your Ps and Qs: a contrastive account of testimonial inference to the best explanation
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
'No good fruit': attitudes toward infertility in colonial New England
Cabinet of Natural History
Radiation and restoration: saving the American chestnut tree in the Atomic Age
HPS History Workshop
'What is Mercury?', chapter 1 of The Making of English Alchemy, the speaker's forthcoming book
Cabinet of Natural History
Local medicines in a global empire: collecting medicinal plants in eighteenth-century Spanish Central America
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Twentieth Century Think Tank
Wanting your own words: writing in the first person about sexuality and feminism
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The chemical origins of Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie Jr.'s Calculus of Chemical Operations
History of Medicine Seminars
Consensus, correspondence and the development of the 'second opinion' in Nuremberg's medical reformation, 1560β1598
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Test-tubes and turpitude: infertility and artificial insemination in mid-twentieth-century Scotland
Cabinet of Natural History
The Whipple Museum is full of rubbish!
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Heredity under the microscope
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Science funding 2.0
History of Medicine Seminars
A delicate alliance: aid agencies and the media in Britain since the 1960s
Cabinet of Natural History
Making livings: the economic worlds of Wallace and Darwin
HPS History Workshop
Studying Babylonia in Philadelphia: Assyriological practice and the University of Pennsylvania's museum, c.1900
HPS History Workshop
Conceptual change in history of science
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Emergence in complexity science
Cabinet of Natural History
'Vampire excursions': making blood anthropological in the postwar era
HPS History Workshop
From Cook to Cousteau: the many lives of coral reefs
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Cabinet of Natural History
'It is indeed a thing ominous for a Toad to be born of Woman': taking experimental frogs and toads seriously
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Kripke's Wittgenstein on meaning and rules
Cabinet of Natural History
An apprenticeship in theory: rethinking Darwin's debt to Lyell
HPS History Workshop
The global biopolitics of female sterilization
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The paradoxes of quantum theory: solving vs. dissolving
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Preserving scientific heritage: collaborating with scientists
Cabinet of Natural History
Raiders of the lost ark: an introduction into the practical archaeology of knowledge at the collections of the University of Basel
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Philosophical issues in research funding allocation
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Twentieth Century Think Tank
Principles, pluralism and 'moral experts': reassessing the history of bioethics
Cabinet of Natural History
Thomas Bewick, engraving the world
HPS Philosophy Workshop
You can get here from there: 'thick' communication, interpretation, and projective identification explained
History of Medicine Seminars
Useful books: reading vernacular regimens in 16th-century England
Cabinet of Natural History
Peter Paul Rubens and the bird of paradise: natural knowledge and painting in 17th-century Europe
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HPS History Workshop
'Mouse No. 48' and 'Mouse No. 73': first gene transfer experiments, 1977β1980
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Health, height and intelligence in history: surveying the British population through the 20th century
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Twentieth Century Think Tank
The narcissist and the coquette: contesting figures of sexual sociability
Cabinet of Natural History
Curating science in an age of empire: the Kew Museums of Economic Botany
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Sui generis explanations: scientific progress and scientific realism
History of Medicine Seminars
A pre-peanut history of food allergy
Cabinet of Natural History
Virgin birth crosses the Atlantic: Jacques Loeb's experiments on artificial parthenogenesis in the British press, 1900β06
HPS History Workshop
Technological trajectories of hip replacement
History of Medicine Seminars
Fitting for health: steel-trusses in the enlightened economy of healthcare
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The challenge of the asylum mortuary in early 20th-century Central Europe
Cabinet of Natural History
Recalled into stalk and leaves: the many methods and meanings of early modern palingenesis
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Nicolas Bourbaki and the concept of mathematical structure
Cabinet of Natural History
Skulls and idols: anthropometrics, antiquity collections, and the origin of American man
HPS History Workshop
How to assess influence: Wu Wen-Tsun's work in measure, number and weight
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
British 'sexology' and the uses of the past
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The case of social interaction in bioscience laboratories: a multi-site ethnographic study of design intent and user experience
Cabinet of Natural History
Agricultural science and the Development Commission: the Olby account revisited
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The informational gene: semantic concepts in genetics as models
History of Medicine Seminars
Imagin(in)g the breast: mammography and breast cancer in the context of South-North American exchanges
Cabinet of Natural History
Creativity and the construction of fossils: 'The artist's piece is already in the stone'
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Good practices in rural landscapes: J. Entrican and the rediscovery of indigenous medicine in colonial Burma
Cabinet of Natural History
Continuities in Francis Crick's scientific life and the ethos of post-World War II Cambridge biophysics
HPS History Workshop
Proctor's Mars: new astronomy and new journalism in Britain in the 1870s and 1880s
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The politics of STS: instituting science studies in the age of Cold War
History of Medicine Seminars
Medicine in and around Dunhuang: preliminary assessment of ancient transmissions of medical knowledge along the Silk Road
Cabinet of Natural History
Percy Smith: the self-creation of an amateur scientist and filmmaker
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The equivocation objection to priority monism
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Rethinking generation in the late 18th century: the concept of 'reproduction'
Twentieth Century Think Tank
A mould discarded: abortion and class in 1930s rhetoric and fiction
Cabinet of Natural History
Descriptions and disciplines in the ocean: defining the perspective of oceanography in the 1920s
HPS History Workshop
Private science and public morals: the diary of a late-Victorian teratologist
History of Medicine Seminars
Speaking for the patient as consumer in late 20th-century Britain
Cabinet of Natural History
Domesticating the Victorian dog: a public life for a private animal
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The ins and outs of mathematical explanation
History of Medicine Seminars
'Nott a sadder creature in the world': parental grief in early modern England, 1580β1720
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The palace of cats and falcons: 21st-century fauna in a 20th-century skyscraper
Cabinet of Natural History
Trick or treatise? Alchemy as natural magic
HPS History Workshop
The many roles of material variation in Charles Dufay's mΓ©moires on electricity and phosphorescence
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Buyer beware: robustness analyses in theoretical economics
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Temporal economies in fertility research in Germany, 1900β45
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The event in the syndemic: state and subject formation in the two Manchurian pneumonic plague outbreaks (1910β11, 1920β21)
Cabinet of Natural History
Placing a laboratory: botanical buildings in Cambridge around 1900
HPS History Workshop
Human genetics and the blood transfusion services: circulating records, samples and expertise, 1939β1945
History of Medicine Seminars
Silent partners: artists and the mannequin from function to fetish
Cabinet of Natural History
'Your observations and experiments are by far the best which have ever been made': the hidden world of women and science in Charles Darwin's private correspondence
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Kant on psychology as 'physiology of the inner sense'
Cabinet of Natural History
The gilded canopy: the botanical ceilings of the Natural History Museum
HPS History Workshop
History and philosophy of biology: new perspectives?
HPS Philosophy Workshop
A framework for emergentism(s)
Cabinet of Natural History
Victoria's secret: science and the monarchy
HPS History Workshop
Did wonders ever cease? The singular, shining and spectacular in Charles Dufay's 'MΓ©moires sur l'Γ©lectricitΓ©' (1733β7)
Cabinet of Natural History
The fairy-tales of science
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Authority waterfalls: an anti-realist model of research impact
HPS History Workshop
Ancient Chinese mathematics in action: Wu Wen-Tsun's ethnic historicism after the Cultural Revolution
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Population thinking, statistical autonomy, and Biology's First Law
Cabinet of Natural History
Using Babylonian gods to sell cod liver oil: Henry Wellcome and medical interest in Assyriology around 1900
HPS History Workshop
'Lies and frivolity': manners in scientific dispute in 19th-century Britain and Germany
History of Medicine Seminars
Cloning and film: fictional vectors of factual imaginaries
Cabinet of Natural History
'Map of Turkey, a flexible hat, pencils, and the Talbotype': travelling artists in mid-19th century archaeological expeditions to the Middle East
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Sarah Stone, William Cadogan and Enlightenment motherhood
Cabinet of Natural History
Newtonian vegetables and perceptive plants
HPS History Workshop
How the Harvard archives reveal that William James was a highly skilled hypnotist
History of Medicine Seminars
Mortars, exotic drugs, and a battle for expertise: Verona 1561β1566
Cabinet of Natural History
The subjectivity of early modern knowledge in the Garden of Life
Cabinet of Natural History
Healthcare and welfare in contemporary Kenya
HPS History Workshop
To graze and virtue: Anders Gabriel Duhre as a virtuous maker of useful knowledge in early 18th-century Sweden
History of Medicine Seminars
'Patient zero' and the early years of the North American AIDS epidemic
Cabinet of Natural History
Mountainous effects: Alpine space and Victorian lady climbers
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Race and population: fertility theories and the status of demography, 1920sβ1960s
Cabinet of Natural History
The poisoner's regress: on orientalism and natural history
HPS History Workshop
Pregnancy testing and the 1930s controversy over the hormonal placenta
History of Medicine Seminars
Spaces of healing: Byzantium and medieval Islam compared
Cabinet of Natural History
The hungry cats of Pietro Antonio Michiel, or the fragile nature of Renaissance collecting
Medieval Medicine Discussion Group
Somnambulism, violence and imagination in medieval medicine
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Cabinet of Natural History
Mutable mobiles: the circulation of botanical maps between Humboldtian Germany and Victorian Britain
HPS History Workshop
Margaret Fountaine: the life and works of a rather ordinary Victorian lepidopterist
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Spermatic animalcules and concepts of life around 1800
Cabinet of Natural History
The making of the medieval English therapeutic landscape
HPS Philosophy Workshop
An unstable hybrid - dissolving the metaethical puzzle
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Diagnosing child sexual abuse in early modern England
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The virtual object of public health, or: the problem of 'life' in China, 1911β1937
Cabinet of Natural History
The human automatism debate in the late 19th century
HPS History Workshop
Concepts and perceptions of body size within western medicine in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
History of Medicine Seminars
'A cold-blooded business'? Making the modern blood donor in wartime London
Cabinet of Natural History
Victorian palaeontology and serial publication
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Nature and the space of reasons
Cabinet of Natural History
Politeness and the ethical force of natural history
HPS History Workshop
From unhealthy lands to foyers of endemicity: malaria's place in the medical geography of French West Africa, ca.1880β1920
History of Medicine Seminars
Catholic activists, medical authority and the limiting of peasant choice in rural Brittany, 1650β1750
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Organisms, autonomy and division of labour
History of Medicine Seminars
The 'miracle of childbirth': the portrayal of parturient women in medieval miracle narratives
Cabinet of Natural History
Maya ruins, volcanoes and the colonial state in 18th-century Central America
HPS History Workshop
Representational practices and the ethics of natural history, 1650β1720
History of Medicine Seminars
Diseased on an Indian Ocean island: medicine, statishness and colonialism
Cabinet of Natural History
Some aspects of early Darwinian commemoration
Cabinet of Natural History
The herbarium and the computer: investigating John Henslow's science
Cabinet of Natural History
Nature teaching on the blackboard: visual learning in early twentieth-century English school science
Cabinet of Natural History
Experiments in description: Victorian physics and the natural history of electricity
Cabinet of Natural History
Dragons, insects and porcupines: locating the Victorian 'dinosaur'
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Lacan's Dialectic of Enlightenment: from Kantian autonomy to the Freudian partial object
Cabinet of Natural History
English visitors to Vesuvius and Solfatara in the early seventeenth century
HPS History Workshop
Edmund Selous: birdwatching and interpreting animal behaviour in Britain, 1900
HPS History Workshop
Mathematical culture in Elizabethan England
Cabinet of Natural History
William Buckland's oral history of deep time, or, things that made him go mmmmmmmmmm
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The 'economic' metaphor in biology: a case study
Cabinet of Natural History
Reflections on Darwin 2009: a discussion
Cabinet of Natural History
Geology, caves, and original architecture: ideas of origins and early nineteenth-century geology
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Incongruent counterparts, orientation, and higher geometry
History of Medicine Seminars
The birth of biopower in eighteenth-century Germany
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The constructive idea: art and science in '30s London and Cambridge
Cabinet of Natural History
Rethinking the synthesis period in evolutionary studies, 1930s and 1940s
HPS History Workshop
Title to be confirmed
HPS History Workshop
White maps of Africa β the making of blank spaces
Cabinet of Natural History
Beale, Bennett, Scoresby (and Melville!): a 'natural' history of cetology
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Causation and exceptions
Cabinet of Natural History
The lake as a microcosm: Otto Zacharias and the civic origins of limnology
HPS History Workshop
Nunataks: historical phytogeography and botanical nation building in 1930s QuΓ©bec
HPS History Workshop
A scientific toy for red-blooded boys: the Gilbert chemistry set and non-journalistic popularization of science
History of Medicine Seminars
'Isolates' and 'crosses': human evolution and population genetics in the mid-twentieth century
Cabinet of Natural History
The curious case of the London Skull: the making of a British human ancestor
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The epistemology of memory
Cabinet of Natural History
Reflections on re-treading Darwin's 'gigantic blunder' in Glen Roy
HPS History Workshop
Teacher, toy, or calculator? Reflections of mathematics, education, and society in a 20th-century American object
HPS History Workshop
The contested banana tree: public debates about science in eighteenth-century Central America
History of Medicine Seminars
Practitioners, products and promotion: the medical trade catalogue and professional ethics in Britain, 1880β1914
Cabinet of Natural History
Lyell's plots
HPS Philosophy Workshop
What is a thick concept?
History of Medicine Seminars
Medical knowledge and enlightened war: British and French military medicine in the eighteenth century
Cabinet of Natural History
Head gardeners: the forgotten heroes of horticulture
Cabinet of Natural History
After the king of beasts: the embodied histories of elephant hunting in mid-nineteenth century Ceylon
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The epistemic principle of alternative possibilities
Cabinet of Natural History
Coming to attention: observing nature at the edges during the Napoleonic Wars
HPS History Workshop
Authenticating nature: situating photographic trust in the late nineteenth century scientific periodical press
HPS History Workshop
The theatre of science vs the science of theatre: thinking about 18th century experimental performance
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Deference at a distance
History of Medicine Seminars
Mechanizing war and medicine: rationalized fracture care in World War I
Cabinet of Natural History
'Botany of the air': experiments, airships and agriculture in 1930
HPS History Workshop
The meaning of altruism in interwar London
HPS History Workshop
Mass-Observation's May the Twelfth (1937) as utopian sociology
Cabinet of Natural History
Fungi in history
HPS History Workshop
'Strange are the ways of providence': Calvinism, evolution, and the autobiography of James Croll
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Autonomy and ontology: freedom in Kant and Heidegger
HPS History Workshop
The politics of participation: Francis Galton's Anthropometric Laboratory and the formation of civic selves
Cabinet of Natural History
Locating true North: a physiognomic analysis of Marianne North and the North Gallery at Kew
HPS Philosophy Workshop
What reasons needn't be
Cabinet of Natural History
Reality and representation: Mark Catesby's natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands and the epistemological limits of pictorial illustration
HPS History Workshop
Mad women and mad-doctors
Cabinet of Natural History
Gardening like gentlemen? Constructing the nurseryman in early eighteenth-century London
HPS Philosophy Workshop
So what is psychological identification anyway?
Cabinet of Natural History
'It is to do one's best to look without laughing': the spectacle of the kangaroo in late eighteenth-century London
HPS History Workshop
Placing trust in photographs β photography and the illustrated press
Cabinet of Natural History
Founding the science of ethnology: James Cowles Prichard and his 'Researches into the physical history of man'
Cabinet of Natural History
Popularizing evolution: biographies and books for children
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Where do the laws of logic come from?
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Pregnancy, pathology and public morals: making antenatal care in early twentieth-century Edinburgh
Cabinet of Natural History
Distancing animals in medieval chronicles
HPS History Workshop
Visual organisation of heavenly knowledge in the 16th and 17th centuries
Early Science and Medicine
How (not) to read the advertisements of oculists: records, testimonies and the strategy of personal encounters in the early 18th century
Twentieth Century Think Tank
High science: hill stations and modern astrophysics
Cabinet of Natural History
'The unrecovered country': the non-drainage of the Fens, 1619-20
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Towards a postmodern concept of risk: the contribution of risk perception studies
Early Science and Medicine
The radical moisture between theology and medicine (13thβ14th centuries)
Cabinet of Natural History
Punishing bodies: image and ambiguity in the Lydian-Phrygian 'confession stelae'
HPS History Workshop
God, king, and geometry: Cauchy's reactionary rigour
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The diseased convict and the Australian voyage: medical knowledge, penal reform and colonisation
Cabinet of Natural History
JBS Haldane on the role of disease in evolution (1949): sickle cell anaemia, ecology, evolutionary medicine, and feeding the world
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Defending shallow essentialism
Early Science and Medicine
'Atomism' and the criterion of truth: Asclepiades of Bithynia's appropriations of Epicureanism
Cabinet of Natural History
Long in the tooth: a study of a set of papier-mache horses' teeth
HPS History Workshop
The golden road to China: cartographical representations of an improbable railway project, c.1881-5
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Womb with a view: transforming obstetric ultrasound into a consumer experience
Cabinet of Natural History
The ends of the earth: rearticulating the image of the poles in the age of polar aviation
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Proofs, refutations and heuristics: historical and essentialist standpoints in Lakatos's philosophy of mathematics
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Genetically ethnic? Medicine, heredity and immigration in post-war Britain
HPS History Workshop
Products of conception and the order of nature in Danish natural philosophy and medicine, c.1650-1800
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Gynaecological fragments in a pragmatic archbishop's handbook: the Old English 'Formation of the Foetus' in context
Cabinet of Natural History
Responding to Darwin: The Reverend Thomas Stebbing (1835-1926), clergyman, naturalist and apologist
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Status of human tissues
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Segments and proportions: body mapping in early twentieth-century neuroscience
Cabinet of Natural History
Food, fair weather and fields: fundamental change in Anglo-Saxon England
HPS History Workshop
Hunting the phoenix: an alchemical detective story
Early Science and Medicine
Space and spectacle in the Renaissance apothecary
Cabinet of Natural History
A botanical tour in Paris: botany, amateurship and communities of knowledge
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Is the pessimistic induction valid?
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Midwifery practices and the fate of mothers and infants in late eighteenth-century Denmark
Cabinet of Natural History
Why do we want Aristotle to have been a biologist (given that he wasn't)?
HPS History Workshop
Wu Wen-Tsun: a modern Chinese mathematician and the Chinese mathematical tradition
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'Der neue Trend β no smoking please!': creating the non-smoker in West Germany, 1945β1975
Cabinet of Natural History
New manuscript evidence for medieval Latin bestiary ownership and use
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Objective consequentialism, criteria of rightness and ignorance
Early Science and Medicine
Perceptions of health in Roman Spain: preliminary research on the archaeological material from the Province
Cabinet of Natural History
The early Soviet project of hybridising humans and apes
HPS History Workshop
'Restitution' in seventeenth-century architecture and natural philosophy
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Picture perfect: from golden rules to golden boys
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Groundwork for a Humean theory of ideal laws
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The machinery of authoritarian care: representing and experiencing breast cancer treatment in 1970s Britain
Cabinet of Natural History
Orford Ness: landscape of war and science
HPS History Workshop
Puns and pea-shooters: play, words, and plays on words in John Ayrton Paris's 'Philosophy in Sport Made Science in Earnest' (1827)
Early Science and Medicine
Towards a public health consciousness in medical science: plague in sixteenth-century Italy
Cabinet of Natural History
The evolution of wonder
HPS History Workshop
'In shape vnparfett that nature hathe not drest': vision, experience and incongruous anatomies in early modern England
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Reason in action: a Kantian view of norms
Cabinet of Natural History
Knowledge-making in southern New Zealand
HPS History Workshop
The natural and the divine in Al-Farabi's classification of knowledge
Cabinet of Natural History
Triangulations: poetry, plants and politics in the late eighteenth century
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Constructive empiricism as an epistemological thesis
Cabinet of Natural History
Spaces of geography in early nineteenth-century Paris
HPS History Workshop
Finding favour in the heavens and earth: Georg Stadius, Johannes Kepler and the composition of astrological calendars in early modern Graz
β οΈ Please note change of day
Cabinet of Natural History
Buffon and Martinet's Natural History of Birds (1765-1783): text, images and collections
HPS Philosophy Workshop
A social construction of health
HPS History Workshop
Thomas Digges' astronomy
Cabinet of Natural History
Mary Read and Anne Bonny: two eighteenth-century pirates
Psy Studies
Exploring the human psyche: psychology and British psychic detective fiction at the turn of the 20th century
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Mind-dependence and realism about the mind
Cabinet of Natural History
Saved by servitude: the display of horses at the Natural History Museum in London
HPS History Workshop
Preserving the forgotten: Fox Talbotβs interest in the antique β and what it has to do with photography
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Working with beasts: animal societies in 20th-century popular culture
β οΈ THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Cabinet of Natural History
Locating species identity: towards a biogeography of transgenic life
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Practical judgement: a Kantian perspective
Early Science and Medicine
Thomas Willis and the pathology of sleep disorders
Cabinet of Natural History
Transatlantic hum: Mexican hummingbirds and the French encyclopedic project
HPS History Workshop
Zhang Jingsheng and the βsexual fieldβ in 1920s China
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Reproduction and religion: paediatrics and devotion to the Christ Child in the Central Middle Ages
Cabinet of Natural History
Distancing animals in medieval chronicles
β οΈ THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Psy Studies
Colonising and de-colonising psychoanalysis in the 1950s: Masud Khan amongst the British
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Subjective probability and action guidance
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Biotrash: medical garbage in India
Cabinet of Natural History
Gideon Mantell, Thomas Hardy, and the politics of geological knowledge
HPS History Workshop
Political radicalism and scientific discovery: the Cambridge Biotheoretical Gathering, 1932-1937
Early Science and Medicine
Serving men, serving gods: doctors and musicians in the ancient Greek world
Cabinet of Natural History
Cartographies of a scientific county: mapping Cornwall
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The primacy of secondary qualities
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Embryo genesis: how a handful of scientists produced an American origin story
Cabinet of Natural History
Skulls, science and the spoils of war: frontier violence and the creation of the US Army Medical Museumβs cranial collection, 1869-1900
HPS History Workshop
Military landscapes and secret science: mythical and empirical histories of the Suffolk coast
Cabinet of Natural History
βWhat is meant by this system?β Charles Darwin and the visual re-ordering of nature
Early Science and Medicine
Negotiating masculinity: hermaphrodites and sexual difference in Early Modern France
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The science of self-destruction: animal suicide and the human condition
Cabinet of Natural History
Animals in medical experiments in the Middle Ages
Early Science and Medicine
Through the eyes of a seventeenth-century physician: reassessing John Webster
Cabinet of Natural History
The hunter's gaze: establishing a 'period eye' in Charles Darwin's scientific methodology
Psy Studies
The discomforting past of peptic ulcer: histories of psychosomatic medicine and H. pylori
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Psychological identification and numerical identity: the unlikely connection
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Questioning the images of life before birth: Lennart Nilsson's fetal photographs in public debate
Cabinet of Natural History
'Ecological reconnaissance': expert visitors to Northern Rhodesia in the 1950s
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Global prescriptions, local adaptations: South Asia, the WHO and the global programme to eradicate smallpox
Cabinet of Natural History
Practice and technique in the twentieth-century natural history museum
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The special kind of unpredictability of chaotic systems
Early Science and Medicine
Interrogating the prehistory of Caesarean section
Cabinet of Natural History
'Peripheral vision': science and Creole patriotism in eighteenth-century Spanish America
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Do females have a choice? Darwin, the breeders and the problem of female choice
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Is teleportation a (quantum) mystery?
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
How psychology lost its drive: the establishment of child psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital, 1923-1938
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
The material realisation and conceptual interpretation of observational processes
Cabinet of Natural History
Hippocratic bodies: Castas and temperament in the New Spain
Early Science and Medicine
Fraud, sorcery and medicine in the 1540s: the double life of Gregory Wisdom
Cabinet of Natural History
'Objects, images, books'. Networks of validation in mid-nineteenth-century geology: Italy, France, England
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Supposing this and that
HPS History Workshop
Refashioning women: dress, science and the female body in late nineteenth-century Britain
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Environments: a problem for the bio-statistical theory of health
HPS History Workshop
Monstrous deliveries: fetal anomalies and the making of facts in nineteenth-century obstetrics
Psy Studies
'We might as well call it stuff!': A short history of information as a psychological concept
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Williamson on knowledge as the most general factive mental state
HPS History Workshop
The flying penman: John Wilkins and 'The Secret and Swift Messenger'
Cabinet of Natural History
Setting eyes on the holy: the description of sacred sites in accounts of pilgrimages to Jerusalem and the medieval school of seeing, 12th-15th century
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Understanding counterfactuals
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Colour-experience: eco-dispositionalism and inverted earth
HPS History Workshop
A statesman and a scholar: Hans Georg Herwart von Hohenburg as a critic and patron of Johannes Kepler
Cabinet of Natural History
Anatomist holds model embryo: interpreting a marble portrait from 1900
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Provisional knowledge
Psy Studies
βNo! No! Not the comfy chair!β The power of the experimental situation in social psychology
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Can Kant have an account of self-knowledge?
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Infection and imagination: Robert Koch and tropical medicine
Cabinet of Natural History
"Linnaean traditions? School botany and biological recording"
HPS History Workshop
Samuel Brown of Edinburgh: chemistry and the scientific career in nineteenth-century Scotland
Early Science and Medicine
βMurderous pity?β Active euthanasia in early modern medicine and society
Cabinet of Natural History
Mineralogy, Stratigraphy and Practical Geology: Shifting tensions in the Geological Society of London, 1807-1840
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Practices, rules and motivation
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
The concept of generation: historical and theoretical perspectives
Cabinet of Natural History
The Earl of Oxford's stud at Welbeck in the 1720s
HPS History Workshop
'Les particularitΓ©s la plus considerable': Fontenelle's Γ©loges
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
βThe dog daysβ: rabies in England, 1830β1860
Cabinet of Natural History
"Ritual Patricide: Why Stephen Jay Gould Assassinated His Idol"
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The sceptical consequences of phenomenal realism
Early Science and Medicine
Dreams of plenty: domestic economy in the writings of Hugh Platt
Cabinet of Natural History
Alchemy and natural history
HPS History Workshop
The place of natural philosophy in Al-Farabi's classification of knowledge
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Why write a history of both red and green biotech? The controversies over DES in post-war France and the United States
Cabinet of Natural History
Amateurs and pros(e): growing pains in twentieth century natural history publishing
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The difference between cause and condition
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Queer feet: tracing the normal and the pathological in nineteenth-century movement studies
Cabinet of Natural History
Conquering the world through plants: kings and botany in the Graeco-Roman world
HPS History Workshop
Samuel Lilley and the Commission for the History of the Social Relations of Science, 1947β53
Early Science and Medicine
Making more out of meat in eighteenth-century Paris
Cabinet of Natural History
Geological deluge and snowball Earth
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Relative meaning
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The H-bomb, fishermen and an unusual infection: the Bikini incident and the rise of a new medicine in Cold War Japan
Cabinet of Natural History
Tropical invalids: climate and culture in nineteenth-century British natural history
HPS History Workshop
Electrons in the family
Early Science and Medicine
'Desperate and incurable': defining breast cancer in England c.1550-1800
Cabinet of Natural History
Divine design arguments in the eighteenth century
Psy Studies
Shell shock to PTSD: a step change in the conceptualisation of psychological responses to traumatic events
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Three degrees of (anti-realist) modal involvement
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Nature, nurture or neither? Some Hippocratic generations of difference
Cabinet of Natural History
More like apes than angels: natural history and the political economy of David Hume and Adam Smith
HPS History Workshop
Darwin's microscopes: theory, practice and reputation
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
From standardization to welfare: the origins of the '3 Rs' approach to managing laboratory animals
Psy Studies
Angina pectoris and the Arnolds: emotions and the framing of heart disease in medical history
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Philosophy on the move: mind and body in Stanley Cavell's work
Early Science and Medicine
The renaissance tomato, from botanical curiosity to culinary condiment
Cabinet of Natural History
Transcultural botany: Japanese gardens in New Zealand, 1890-1950
β οΈ Note: This seminar will start at 12.30
HPS History Workshop
Maternal or fetal diagnostics? Practices of ultrasound imaging in Norway, 1970-1995
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
'It's all in the blood': thoroughbred racehorse reproduction
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Not all computations are effective methods
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Thinking in posters: AIDS and the power of the visual
Cabinet of Natural History
Botany, empire, religion and collecting in early nineteenth-century north India
HPS History Workshop
Bangs and stinks: Ede's 'Youth's Laboratories' and the smell of useful knowledge
Early Science and Medicine
Sterility and the disordered household in Early Modern England and France
Cabinet of Natural History
The strange tale of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hunter: the social and professional life of naturalist John Hunter (1728-1793)
Cabinet of Natural History
Exhibition and extinction: the display of nature and the development of conservation
β οΈ All are welcome - feel free to bring your lunch
University of Cambridge, New Zealand Studies Seminar Group
Empire and nature in New Zealand: theologies of nature and natural theologies, 1830-1920 (based on joint research with John Stenhouse)
β οΈ This seminar is organised with The Cabinet of Natural History. All are welcome - feel free to bring your lunch.
Cabinet of Natural History
Aliens and useful knowledge: Kant's "Natural History and Theory of the Heavens"
β οΈ All are welcome - feel free to bring your lunch
Cabinet of Natural History
The logarithmic ear: Pietro Mengoli, music, mathematics and anatomy in the late seventeenth century
β οΈ All are welcome - feel free to bring your lunch
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