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The Business of Medicine
The relationship between doctors and pharmaceutical manufacturers sometimes raises concerns about the undue influence of companies on the medical choices made by doctors. Dr Claire Jones’ research on 19th and early 20th century trade catalogues in the Burroughs, Wellcome &… Continue reading
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Fast food and football rivalry
On Sunday 16 March, not too far from the Wellcome Library’s location in North London, rival football clubs Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal face each other in what local fans know as “the North London Derby”. What links this to the… Continue reading
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‘Ethics and etiquette at the deathbed in early modern medicine: a second look’
The final seminar in the 2013-14 History of Pre-Modern Medicine academic seminar series, will take place on Tuesday 4th March. Details: Maria-Pia Donato (Università di Cagliari / I.H.M.C. Paris) Ethics and etiquette at the deathbed in early modern medicine: a… Continue reading
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‘Trouble with the Classics: Education Reform and the Cultivation of a Premodern Medical Tradition in India’
The next seminar in the 2013-14 History of Pre-Modern Medicine academic seminar series, will take place on Tuesday 18th February. Details: Anthony Cerulli (Hobart and William Smith Colleges) Trouble with the Classics: Education Reform and the Cultivation of a Premodern Medical Tradition… Continue reading
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‘The transformation of medicine in early modern Britain’
The next seminar in the 2013-14 History of Pre-Modern Medicine academic seminar series, will take place on Tuesday 4th February. Details: Patrick Wallis (LSE) The transformation of medicine in early modern Britain “In this paper, I discuss evidence for changes… Continue reading
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History of pre-modern medicine seminar series, Spring 2014
The History of Pre-Modern Medicine seminar series returns this month. The 2013-14 series – organised by a group of historians of medicine based at London universities and hosted by the Wellcome Library – will conclude with four seminars. The series… Continue reading
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A literary history of medicine: the best accounts of the classes of physicians
The next seminar in the 2013-14 History of Pre-Modern Medicine academic seminar series, will take place on Tuesday 19th November. Details: Emilie Savage-Smith (Oxford) A Literary History of Medicine: The Best Accounts of the Classes of Physicians by Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah (d.… Continue reading
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The Devil’s “greatest enemy”
North Berwick, All Hallows Eve 1590 – and the Devil is abroad. According to the pamphlet Newes from Scotland he took human form, appearing before a group of witches to whom he requested to “kiss his Buttocks, in signe of… Continue reading
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‘Nature’s Office and Work: Defeating Disease in Early Modern England, 1580-1720’
The next seminar in the 2013-14 History of Pre-Modern Medicine academic seminar series, will take place on Tuesday 5th November. Details: Hannah Newton (Cambridge) “Nature’s Office and Work”: Defeating Disease in Early Modern England, 1580-1720 Abstract: The ‘golden saying’ in early modern… Continue reading
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‘Saving the Lives of Our Dogs’
Eighty years ago, a special supplement to The Field magazine announced that the dreaded dog disease of distemper had been conquered. The conquest was the result of a vaccine developed by researchers at the Medical Research Council (MRC) and commercialised… Continue reading