UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER

CENTRE FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE, and
WELLCOME UNIT FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE

SEMINARS -  SPRING 1999

4.00 pm TUESDAYS (unless otherwise stated) Room 3.29, 3rd Floor,
Maths Tower, Oxford Road, Manchester, UK. Tea from 3.30 pm, Room 3.04

09 February     Dr Seymour Mauskopf (Duke University and Science
                Museum, London)
                From an Instrument of War to an Instrument of the
                Laboratory, The Affinities Do Not Change: Chemists and
                the Development of Munitions 1785 - 1885.

16 February     Dr Peter Atkins (Geography, Durham)
                Milk, Tuberculosis and Pasteurization: a major food
                safety issue 1900-1960

23 February     Dr Liba Taub (Whipple Museum and HPS, Cambridge)
                Ancient Greek and Roman Weather Predictions and
                Explanations

02 March        Professor Martin Rudwick (Cambridge)
                On retreading early geological fieldwork

09 March        Dr Mary Dobson (Wellcome, Oxford)
                'Bounce Back Malaria': The Challenge and Fears of
                Malaria Control in 20th Century Africa.

16 March        Dr Rip Bulkeley (Oxford)
                Aeronomy or ICBMs?  Internal and External Origins of
                the International Geophysical Year.

Wed 24 March 5.30pm, Post- graduate Centre, MRI.  Tea from 5.0pm.
                University of Manchester History of Medicine Lecture
                Peter Schurr  CBE FRCS
                Sir Geoffrey Jefferson - Manchester's Neurosurgeon
                Extraordinary
                PLEASE NOTE TIME AND PLACE

20 April        Dr Anna Mayer  (HPS, Cambridge)
                Englishness and Scientists in the 1920s.

27 April        Drs Jon Agar, Penny Harvey and Sarah Green
                (Manchester)
                Social Contexts of Virtual Manchester

04 May          Dr Jim Bennett (History of Science Museum,
                Oxford)
                John Harrison's Watch on Trial

11 May          Professor Bill Luckin (Bolton and IHR, London)
                Metropolitan Exceptionalism Revisited: Public
                Health and Environmental Control in late 19th and
                early 20th Century London.

Enquiries: Paula Guest, Room 3.32a, Maths Tower (0161 275 5837)