Monday 17 September 2012

The Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (CSHHH) Autumn 2012 Seminar Series


The Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (CSHHH)

The CSHHH is a collaborative research group involving historians and students from Glasgow Caledonian University and the University of Strathclyde. Our activities focus on the way in which medicine, medical science, and healthcare systems have developed over time and have come to shape our contemporary experience.

Autumn 2012 Seminar Series

Wednesday 26 September 2012
Dr Sabine Clarke
University of York
“New Uses for Sugar: The Search for Novel Drugs  and the development of the British Caribbean after 1940.”

Wednesday 10 October 2012
Dr Neil Pemberton
University of Manchester
"The Curious Episode of the Dogs that  Didn't Bark: Bloodhounds, Slum Stench and Jack the Ripper in the Late-Victorian Imagination."

Wednesday 14 November 2012
Dr Gayle Davis
University of Edinburgh
 “Test tubes and turpitude: The medical, social and political response to infertility in 1950s Scotland?”

Wednesday 21 November 2012
Dr Jamie Stark
University of Leeds
"Naming Death: The Many Anthraxes of Bradford, Britain and the World, c.1850-1920".

ALL WELCOME
Location: W709 (Hamish Wood Building)
4.30pm (refreshments)  for a 5.00pm start.