Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine


2006-11-23 16:30: Doctors, motherhood and insanity of childbirth in Victorian Britain (Hilary Marland (University of Warwick))

2007-11-29 16:30: Proving a negative? How important was sexual abstinence during the fertility decline? (Simon Szreter (St John's College, Cambridge))

2008-12-04 16:30: Making the invisible visible: the hidden history of families, schools, civil rights, media and science in the production of learning disabilities (Rayna Rapp (New York University))

2009-12-03 16:30: Divorcing sex and reproduction: the discussion of artificial insemination in Britain, 1918–1948 (Angus McLaren (University of Victoria))

2011-01-20 16:30: Encountering Aristotle's Masterpiece, or how to find a racy book about reproduction (Mary Fissell (Johns Hopkins University))

2012-01-19 16:30: Revisiting the Mendelian revolution (Staffan Müller-Wille (University of Exeter))

2013-01-17 16:30: Generatio: medieval debates about procreation, heredity and 'bioethics' (Maaike van der Lugt (Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7 / Institut Universitaire de France))

2014-01-16 16:30: The clinic of the birth: obstetric ultrasound, medical innovation and the clinico-anatomical project (Malcolm Nicolson (University of Glasgow))

2015-01-15 16:30: One-seed, two-seed, three-seed? Reassessing ancient theories of generation (Rebecca Flemming (Faculty of Classics))

2016-01-14 16:30: Curing diseases and exchanging knowledge: sixteenth-century physicians and their female patients (Michael Stolberg (University of Würzburg))

2016-11-24 15:30: Eugenic sterilization in California: from demographic analysis to digital storytelling (Alexandra Minna Stern (University of Michigan))

2018-03-01 15:30: Poison trials, panaceas and proof: debates about testing and testimony in early modern European medicine (Alisha Rankin (Tufts University))

2019-01-17 16:00: Heaven and Earth are within one's grasp: the healer's body-as-technology in classical Chinese medicine (Marta Hanson (Johns Hopkins University))

2020-02-13 16:00: The maternal imprint: gender, heredity and the biosocial body (Sarah Richardson (Harvard University))

2021-02-11 16:00: Doctors v. midwives: Caribbean medical encounters in the age of pronatal abolition (Sasha Turner (Johns Hopkins University))

2022-01-20 16:00: Seeds, a dying river, and an experiment station: re-examining 1960s global solutions to hunger from Sonora, Mexico (Gabriela Soto Laveaga (Harvard University))

2023-01-26 16:00: Live, and let live: medical recipes and technique of the socialized self across the Ming-Qing transition (He Bian (Princeton University))

2024-02-08 15:30: Slave trading and the imagination of the quantifiable body in the early modern South Atlantic (Pablo F. Gómez (University of Wisconsin–Madison))