History of Modern Medicine and Biology


2006-10-17 17:00: Thinking in posters: AIDS and the power of the visual (Roger Cooter (University College London) and Claudia Stein (University of Warwick))

2006-11-07 17:00: From standardization to welfare: the origins of the '3 Rs' approach to managing laboratory animals (Robert Kirk (University of Manchester))

2006-11-28 17:00: The H-bomb, fishermen and an unusual infection: the Bikini incident and the rise of a new medicine in Cold War Japan (Aya Homei (University of Manchester))

2007-01-30 17:00: Queer feet: tracing the normal and the pathological in nineteenth-century movement studies (Andreas Mayer (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2007-02-20 17:00: ‘The dog days’: rabies in England, 1830–1860 (Michael Worboys and Neil Pemberton (University of Manchester))

2007-03-13 17:00: Infection and imagination: Robert Koch and tropical medicine (Christoph Gradmann (University of Oslo))

2007-10-16 17:00: How psychology lost its drive: the establishment of child psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital, 1923-1938 (Bonnie Evans (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2007-11-06 17:00: Global prescriptions, local adaptations: South Asia, the WHO and the global programme to eradicate smallpox (Sanjoy Bhattacharya (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, UCL))

2007-11-27 17:00: The science of self-destruction: animal suicide and the human condition (Duncan Wilson (University of Manchester))

2008-02-12 17:00: Biotrash: medical garbage in India (Sarah Hodges (University of Warwick))

2008-03-04 17:00: Working with beasts: animal societies in 20th-century popular culture (Amanda Rees (University of York))

2008-10-21 17:00: The machinery of authoritarian care: representing and experiencing breast cancer treatment in 1970s Britain (Elizabeth Toon (University of Manchester))

2008-11-11 17:00: 'Der neue Trend – no smoking please!': creating the non-smoker in West Germany, 1945–1975 (Rosemary Elliot (University of Glasgow))

2008-12-02 17:00: Segments and proportions: body mapping in early twentieth-century neuroscience (Katja Guenther (Harvard University))

2009-01-27 17:00: Genetically ethnic? Medicine, heredity and immigration in post-war Britain (Roberta Bivins (University of Warwick))

2009-02-17 17:00: The diseased convict and the Australian voyage: medical knowledge, penal reform and colonisation (Katherine Foxhall (University of Manchester))

2009-03-10 17:00: Pregnancy, pathology and public morals: making antenatal care in early twentieth-century Edinburgh (Salim Al-Gailani (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2013-10-08 17:00: Reinventing infectious disease: antibiotic resistance and drug development at the Bayer Company, 1940–1980 (Christoph Gradmann (University of Oslo))

2013-11-05 17:00: The 'premature arrival of the future': temporalities of cloning in 1970s life sciences and culture (Christina Brandt (Ruhr University Bochum))

2014-01-21 17:00: The multiple inventions of transgenic mice (Dmitriy Myelnikov (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2014-02-25 17:00: From reductionism towards integration: systems biology as a scientific social movement (Niki Vermeulen (University of Manchester))

2014-10-28 17:00: Off the reservation: how indigenous bodies became big data (Joanna Radin (Yale University))

2014-11-11 17:00: Mestizo genomics: race mixture, nation and science in Latin America (Carlos López Beltrán (UNAM, Mexico))

2014-12-02 17:00: 'Operation ouch': America's response to polio before a vaccine (Stephen Mawdsley (Clare Hall, Cambridge))

2015-01-27 17:00: Sizing up the pelvis: birthing technology in late 18th-century France (Margaret Carlyle (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2015-02-10 17:00: Autobiography and the crafting of identity in 20th-century American medicine (Caitjan Gainty (King's College London))

2015-03-03 17:00: Women and children first: imaging medical genetics, 1950s–1970s (María Jesús Santesmases (CSIC, Madrid))

2015-10-13 17:00: 'Highly coloured': race, ethnicity and the NHS (Roberta Bivins (University of Warwick))

2015-11-03 17:00: After the end of disease: looking past the epidemic narrative (Dora Vargha (Birkbeck, University of London))

2015-11-24 17:00: The medical book in the Victorian pornography trade (Sarah Bull (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2016-01-19 17:00: The lost beasts: international palaeontology and the evolution of the mammals, 1880–1950 (Chris Manias (KCL))

2016-02-09 17:00: The maternal-fetal relationship since 1900 (Tatjana Buklijas (Liggins Institute and Central European University))

2016-03-01 17:00: Shortening hospital stays: clinico-economic dialogues in the 20th century (Sally Sheard (University of Liverpool))

2016-10-11 17:00: The Colindale typers: bacteriophage and the British Public Health Laboratory Service (Claas Kirchhelle (University of Oxford))

2016-11-08 17:00: The life of forms: biology and modernist sculpture (Ed Juler (Newcastle University))

2016-11-29 17:00: The anti-feminist construction of the 'midlife crisis' (Susanne Schmidt (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2017-01-24 17:00: Picturing the unusual: medical photography as an 'experimental system' (Lukas Engelmann (CRASSH))

2017-02-21 17:00: Genomics and the industrialisation of medical tests, 1980–2000 (Steve Sturdy (University of Edinburgh))

2017-03-14 17:00: Malaria and the colonial frontier in Manchuria, 1905–1940s (Jeong-ran Kim (Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford))

2017-11-07 17:00: The place of birth: mothers, midwives, birth attendants, and choices about childbirth in twentieth-century Uganda (Kathleen Vongsathorn (University of Warwick))

2017-11-14 17:00: Regulatory regimes for diagnostic devices (Stuart Hogarth (Department of Sociology))

2017-11-28 17:00: The cult of youth: rejuvenation in interwar Britain (James Stark (University of Leeds))

2018-01-23 17:00: 'Don't eat the pudding': food and nourishment in the nineteenth-century English prison system (Margaret Charleroy (University of Warwick))

2018-02-13 17:00: Genes against beans: favism, malaria and nationalism in the Middle East (Elise Burton (Newnham College, Cambridge))

2018-03-13 17:00: Handbuchwissenschaft, or: how big books maintain knowledge in the twentieth-century life sciences (Mathias Grote (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin))

2018-10-09 17:00: 'Living differently from now on': the utopia of abortion activism in 1970s France (Bibia Pavard (Panthéon-Assas University, Paris))

2018-10-23 17:00: 'Since the introduction of the Sick Pay Scheme, sick absence has increased': sick pay, sick leave and sick notes in the nationalised industries c. 1948–1959 (Gareth Millward (University of Warwick))

2018-11-13 17:00: Living archives and dying wards: ethical records preservation at the Uganda Cancer Institute (Marissa Mika (University College London))

2019-01-22 17:00: Folic acid between science, policy and the market: mainstreaming pre-conceptional vitamins in the 1980s and '90s (Salim Al-Gailani (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2019-02-12 17:00: Anatomy museum on the move (Elizabeth Hallam (University of Oxford))

2019-02-26 17:00: Total knowledge? Handbooks and encyclopedism in the 20th-century life sciences (Mathias Grote (Humboldt University, Berlin))

2019-10-15 17:00: Anatomy's photography: objectivity, showmanship and the reinvention of the anatomical image, 1861–1913 (Michael Sappol (Uppsala University))

2019-11-05 17:00: Alzheimer's disease: the history of a working title (Lara Keuck (Humboldt University, Berlin))

2019-11-12 17:00: In the same vein: the hepatitis B vaccine and America's dirty blood (Lochlann Jain (Stanford University))

2020-01-21 17:00: The Chinese calorie: nutrition science in early 20th-century China (Hilary Smith (University of Denver and Needham Research Institute))

2020-02-04 17:00: '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 (Sarah Marks (Birkbeck, University of London))

2020-02-25 17:00: Serological surveillance: transfusion, genetics and rare blood in postwar Britain (Jenny Bangham (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2020-10-13 17:00: Seeing like a welfare state: sickle cell disease, medical racism and patient advocacy in the National Health Service, 1975–1993 (Grace Redhead (University College London))

2020-11-10 17:00: Microbe smiths: engineering microbial control in 20th-century Japan (Victoria Lee (Ohio University))

2020-12-01 17:00: The shadow of slavery: measuring miscegenation in the early 20th century (Rana Hogarth (University of Illinois))

2021-01-26 17:00: The concept of 'disease carrier' in Western medicine (Amir Teicher (Tel Aviv University))

2021-02-16 17:00: Seed sovereignty and 'our living relatives' in Native American community farming and gardening (Elizabeth Hoover (University of California, Berkeley))

2021-03-16 17:00: The making of a Pastorian empire: tuberculosis and bacteriological technopolitics in French colonialism and international science, 1890–1940 (Aro Velmet (University of Southern California))

2021-10-12 17:00: 'Constipated, toothless fatties': body and diet in twentieth-century Britain (Chris Otter (Ohio State University))

2021-11-16 17:00: Technoscience in the tropics: public agricultural research and environmental imaginaries in Brazil (Ryan Nehring (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2021-11-30 17:00: 'She's wearing it!' Gender, tinkering, and the design of hearing aids (Jaipreet Virdi (University of Delaware))

2022-02-08 17:00: Insects and the infrastructure of Empire: tropical agriculture and biological control in early 20th-century Hawai'i (Jessica Wang (University of British Columbia))

2022-02-15 17:00: Finding women's 'everyday health': testimonies and experiences (Tracey Loughran (University of Essex))

2022-03-07 17:00: Global actuarial science in the making of the universal healthcare system in the Republic of China, 1935–2010 (Wayne Soon (Vassar College))

2022-10-11 09:00: 'The Great Kanto Earthquake' and 'Doctors, patients and the two languages' (Manabu Akagawa and Akihito Suzuki (University of Tokyo))

2022-11-08 17:30: Eating with animals, eating animals, and eating like animals: scientific nutrition and cross-species methods in the 20th century (Alma Igra (Van Leer Jerusalem Institute))

2022-11-22 17:00: Humanising genetics: changing practices, emotions and identities of clinical genetics in the late 20th century (Jenny Bangham (QMUL))

2023-01-24 17:00: Finding women's 'everyday health': testimonies and experiences (Tracey Loughran (University of Essex))

2023-03-07 17:00: Medicine workers in the mountains: upland gatherers in the Min River Valley and China's natural medicinal products trade, 1890–1960 (Dora Yao (University of Cambridge))

2023-05-09 17:00: Professional ethics, medical professionals and the famine of 1932–1933 in Soviet Ukraine (Oksana Vynnyk (University of Alberta))

2023-10-10 17:00: The campaign against leprosy in contemporary China (Dong Guoqiang (Fudan University))

2023-11-07 17:00: Towards a social(ist) model of disability? Exploring the Soviet roots of twentieth-century disability politics (Claire Shaw (University of Warwick))

2023-11-21 17:00: Plague and plantations: science, extraction, and global connections in Mauritius, 1899–1933 (Jules Skotnes-Brown (University of St Andrews))

2024-02-06 17:00: Skin colour assessment in the age of biological diversity (Ana Carolina Vimieiro (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil))

2024-02-20 17:00: The value of fieldwork in History of Science and Medicine (Various speakers)

2024-03-05 17:00: A postgenomic quilt: how endophenotypes came to revolutionize the meaning of genetic difference (Daniel Navon (University of California, San Diego))

2024-04-30 17:00: Brain studying brain: the neuro disciplines in the early Cold War (Andreas Killen (The City College of New York, CUNY))

2024-05-14 17:00: The global health focus on early life: origin stories (Michelle Pentecost (King's College London))

2024-10-15 17:00: AIDS and the Naz Project: British Asian AIDS activism in the nineties (Somak Biswas (Faculty of History))

2024-10-29 17:00: Early Soviet cinema, trauma and the psychoneuroses of revolution (Anna Toropova (University of Warwick))

2024-11-26 17:00: Swinging into crip time: teenage limb loss and art making in 1960s London (Neil Pemberton (University of Manchester))

2025-02-25 17:00: Along the thread of the mosquito ovary: apprehending malarias lost and regained (Ann Kelly (University of Oxford))

2025-03-11 17:00: How TV made 'The Naked Ape' (Miles Kempton (Christ's College))

2025-10-14 17:00: Thylacine stories: mapping de-extinction (Avey Nelson and Kate O'Riordan (University of Sussex))

2025-11-11 17:00: Dengue in Campaign City: the spectacle of mosquito control in postcolonial Singapore (Timothy Sim (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2025-11-25 17:00: Genetics, infrastructure and historicity in the quest for the 'stolen babies' of Spain (Miguel Garcia-Sancho (University of Edinburgh))

2026-02-10 17:00: Mental healing and altered states in 20th-century China (Luis Fernando Bernardi Junqueira (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2026-02-17 17:00: Strategic adaptation: Dibia and the negotiation of medical authority in eastern Nigeria (Chidi Ugwu (University of Nigeria, Nsukka))

2026-03-03 17:00: How to master a zoonotic pandemic: plague, rats and epidemiological reasoning (Christos Lynteris (University of St Andrews) )

2026-03-17 15:00: The birth of scientific anti-racism (Jenny Reardon (UC Santa Cruz))