Thursday 8th to Sunday 11th July 2010

• 40 Years Society for the Social History of Medicine Annual Conference, "Knowledge, Ethics and Representations of Medicine and Health: Historical Perspectives"

Thursday 17 February to Friday 18 February 2011

• 'The Stimulated Body and the Arts: The Nervous System and Nervousness in the History of Aesthetics' Conference, Durham University, (Contact james.kennaway@durham.ac.uk)

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Past Events

Tuesday 6th and Wednesday 7th July 2010

• The Body on Display, from Renaissance to Enlightenment, Durham University, (Contact body.ondisplay@durham.ac.uk)

Wednesday 9th June 2010

• 'Seeking a Cure in Early Modern England: Medicine Between the Family and the Marketplace'. Pybus Seminar. Dr. Patrick Wallis (London School of Economics), 5.30 p.m. (refreshments from 5.00 p.m.), Bedson Teaching Centre, room LG38, Newcastle University contact Dr. Jonathan Andrews

Friday 7th May 2010

• 'Histories of Intervention: Hormonal Bodies and the (un) making of Difference' 12.30pm, Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room. Dr Celia Roberts (Lancaster University) (Contact katherine.smith@durham.ac.uk)

Wednesday 5th May 2010

• 'Taste and the Pulse in Augustan England'. Pybus Seminar. Dr. Mark Jenner (University of York), 5.30 p.m. (refreshments from 5.00 p.m.), Bedson Teaching Centre, room LG38, Newcastle University contact Dr. Jonathan Andrews

Wednesday 10th March 2010

• 'The Logistics of Vital Statistics: Death Certification, the Medical Profession and the State in Earlier Twentieth-Century Britain'. Pybus Seminar. Dr. Gayle Davis (University of Edinburgh), 5.30 p.m. (refreshments from 5.00 p.m.), Bedson Teaching Centre, room LG38, Newcastle University contact Dr. Jonathan Andrews

Wednesday 10th March 2010

• 'The Sparkling Nectar of Spas: Physicians, Clerics and Mineral Water in an 18th-century Provincial Town' 5.15pm, Rosemary Cramp lecture theatre (Room CLC202) in the Calman Building on the Durham University Science Site. Dr Matthew Eddy (Durham University) (Contact katherine.smith@durham.ac.uk)

Friday 5th March 2010

• ''Arbitrary negative conclusions?' Determining psychiatric knowledge during the 1970s - the case of the Feingold diet' 12.30pm, Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room, Matthew Smith (University of Exeter) (Contact katherine.smith@durham.ac.uk)

Wednesday 3rd March 2010

• '"Take me to the River" Water Cures in the Twentieth Century' 5.15pm, Rosemary Cramp lecture theatre (Room CLC202) in the Calman Building on the Durham University Science Site. Dr Roberta Bivins (University of Warwick) (Contact katherine.smith@durham.ac.uk)

Wednesday 17th February 2010

• 'Abernethy vs The Lancet: The Cultural Politics of Medical Knowledge in the Age of reform'. Pybus Seminar. Dr. Michael Brown (University of Manchester), 5.30 p.m. (refreshments from 5.00 p.m.), Bedson Teaching Centre, room LG38, Newcastle University contact Dr. Jonathan Andrews

Friday 12th February 2010

• 'Hypnosis, Culture and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century: Sciences and Cults of the Central European Mind' 12.30pm, Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room, Dr Emese Lafferton (University of Edinburgh) (Contact katherine.smith@durham.ac.uk)

Wednesday 20th January 2010

• 'Dirt, Itch and Pox: Parish Medical Care for Children in Eighteenth-century London'. Pybus Seminar. Dr. Alysa Levene (Oxford Brookes University), 5.30 p.m. (refreshments from 5.00 p.m.), Bedson Teaching Centre, room LG38, Newcastle University contact Dr. Jonathan Andrews

Wednesday 13th January 2010

• HPSM Group PhD Workshop. 9.15am, Department of Philosophy, 48 Old Elvet, Seminar Room 010 (Contact katherine.smith@durham.ac.uk)

Wednesday 9th December 2009

• 'Biological Warfare in the 18th Century: Military Medicine and the Ethics of War'. Pybus Seminar. Dr. Erica Charters (Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford), 5.30 p.m. (refreshments from 5.00 p.m.), Bedson Teaching Centre, room LG38, Newcastle University contact Dr. Jonathan Andrews

Friday 20th November 2009

• 'A "Scheme of Bacteriological Research" The Anthrax Investigation Board (1905-19)' 12.30pm, Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room. Jamie Stark (University of Leeds) (Contact katherine.smith@durham.ac.uk)

Thursday 5th and Friday 6th November 2009

• 'Sex, Ethics and Psychology: The Networks and Cultural Context of Albert Moll (1862-1939) Conference', Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room. (Contact katherine.smith@durham.ac.uk)

Wednesday 21st October 2009

• 'Why Medicine Mattered to René Descartes and Why it Should Matter to Historians of Philosophy and Science'. Pybus Seminar. Prof. Gideon Manning (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA), 5.30 pm (refreshments from 5.00 pm), Bedson Teaching Centre, Room 1.46, Newcastle University contact Dr. Thomas Rütten

Thursday 15th October 2009

• 'Darwinist Embryo Fraud? Copying Pictures and Why it Matters' 11.30am (refreshments from 11.00am), Durham, 48/49 Old Elvet, Room 010. Nick Hopwood (Cambridge University) (Contact katherine.smith@durham.ac.uk)

Thursday 24th September 2009

• 'Genius and Germs. How Literature Harmonizes Essentialist and Positivist Conceptions of Illnesss After 1900'. Pybus Seminar. Dr. Martina King ( Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich), 5.30 p.m. (refreshments from 5.00 pm) Bedson Teaching Centre, Room 1.46, Newcastle University contact Dr. Thomas Rütten

Monday 24th and Tuesday 25th August 2009

• Approaches to Ancient Medicine Conference, Newcastle University, contact Prof. Philip van der Eijk

Wednesday 20th May 2009

• 'Galen's telology: a medical world-view of intelligent design', Pybus Seminar, Dr. Julius Rocca, (University of Exeter), 5.30 p.m. (refreshments from 5.00 p.m.), Bedson Teaching Centre, Room 1.46, Newcastle University contact Dr. Thomas Rütten

Tuesday 12th May 2009

• 'Early modern generation and marvellous conceptions in the anatomist Thomas Bartholin's (1616-1680) unusual observations'. Ms Signe Nipper Nielsen (Cambridge University) 5:15pm , Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room (Contact katherine.smith@durham.ac.uk)

Wednesday 18th March 2009

• 'William Turner (1508-1568) as a physician', Pybus Seminar, Dr. David Gardner-Medwin, (Newcastle), 5.30 p.m. (refreshments from 5.00 p.m.), Bedson Teaching Centre, Room 1.46, Newcastle University contact Dr. Thomas Rütten

Tuesday 10th March 2009

• 'The Mother as Creator of her Offspring: Neoplatonic Embryology'. Dr James Wilberding (Newcastle University) 5:15pm , Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room (Contact katherine.smith@durham.ac.uk)

Thursday 5th March 2009

• 'The Anatomy of Renaissance Singing', Lecture and performance, sponsored by the Wellcome Trust, Dr. Richard Weistreich (Newcastle University) and Elizabeth Kenny (University of Southampton), 5:30 p.m. Herschel Building, Newcastle University contact Dr. Thomas Rütten

Wednesday 4th March 2009

• 'Astrology and Politics at a Renaissance Court: The Sforza of Milan, 1450-1499, Pybus Seminar, Dr. Monica Azzolini, (University of Edinburgh), 5.30 p.m. (refreshments from 5.00 p.m.), Bedson Teaching Centre, Room 1.46, Newcastle University contact Dr. Thomas Rütten

Tuesday 17 February 2009

• '“She is ill! She must be!”: William M. Ord and Myxoedema'. Mr Daniel Becker (CHMD, Durham University) 5:30pm , Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room (Contact katherine.smith@durham.ac.uk)
  

Wednesday 4th February 2009

• 'The particular claims of a woman and mother: sickness as rhetoric and strategy in the letters of poor women 1800-1840', Pybus Seminar, Prof. Steve King, Oxford Brookes University, 5.30 p.m. (refreshments from 5.00 p.m.), Bedson Teaching Centre, Newcastle University contact Dr. Thomas Rütten
  

Wednesday 14 January 2009

• 'Being human means to exercise: Galen's route to knowledge, health and morality' , Pybus Seminar. Prof. Armelle Debru (Université Paris V)

Friday 5 December 2008

• 'Legal Medicine in History' (Sixth CHMD Workshop) 11:30am , Durham University, Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room (Contact katherine.smith@durham.ac.uk)

Monday 1st December 2008

• "The Nuremberg Doctors' Trial and the Legacy of the Nuremberg Code", Pybus Seminar. Professor Ulf Schmidt (Kent University), 5.30 p.m. Newcastle University (location to be advised) contact Dr. Thomas Rütten

Tuesday 25 November 2008

• Stomach Problems in Britain c.1800-1950: A Socio-Cultural History. Ian Miller (CHSTM (Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine), University of Manchester) 5:15pm , Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room (Contact Katherine.smith@durham.ac.uk)

Monday 17th November 2008

• "The Physiological Foundations of Tommaso Campanella's Theory of Magic", Pybus Seminar.  Dr. Guido Giglioni (University of London), 5.30 p.m. (refreshments from 5.00 p.m.), Robert Boyle Lecture Theatre, Armstrong Building, Newcastle University contact Dr. Thomas Rütten

Tuesday 11 November 2008

• 'Handsome Doctors and the Prestige of the Medical Profession in the Italian Renaissance'. Dr Stefano Cracolici (Durham University) 5.15pm, Durham University, Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room (Contact katherine.smith@durham.ac.uk)

Monday 3rd November 2008

• "Opposing the Nazi Racial State: The International Critique of Nazi Race Policies", Pybus Seminar.  Dr. Paul Weindling (Oxford Brookes University), 5.30 p.m. (refreshments from 5.00 p.m.), Robert Boyle Lecture Theatre, Armstrong Building, Newcastle University contact Dr. Thomas Rütten

Tuesday 21 October 2008

• 'The Local Bases of Global Smallpox Eradication: A Review of Historical Perspectives and Policy Insights'. Dr Sanjoy Bhattacharya (University College London) 5.15pm, Durham University, Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room (Contact katherine.smith@durham.ac.uk)

Wednesday 16 July - Friday 18 July 2008

• 'Obeah Conference' - The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing 10.30am , Newcastle University, Percy Building, Room G5 (Contact maarit.forde@ncl.ac.uk or Diana.paton@ncl.ac.uk