Centre for Medical History Seminar Series – 2017 - 2018 Thursday, 28 September, 6 pm – Medecroft 16 Patient & Practitioner Health Communities in the late 20th & early 21st centuries Dr Julian Sims, Birbeck, University of London Thursday, 26 October, 6 pm – Medecroft 16 The Making of the Poor as Biological Subjects in 19th-Century England Dr Carl Griffin, University of Sussex Thursday, 23 November, 6 pm – Medecroft 16 Kindling Cupid's Fire: ideas about aphrodisiacs in early modern England Dr Jennifer Evans, University of Hertfordshire Thursday, 25 January, 6 pm – Medecroft 16 ‘Keeps your head cool and your belly warm’: Alcohol and Health in Colonial British India Dr Sam Goodman, University of Bournemouth Thursday, 22 February, 6 pm – Medecroft 16 Origins of Vaccination in the 18th century: New Perspectives Patrick J. Pead, University of Southampton Thursday,22 March, 6 pm – Medecroft 16 Politics of performance: standards in public health and education in Victorian England Dr Tom Crook, Oxford Brookes University Thursday, 26 April, 6 pm – Medecroft 16 Genotyping Medieval English Leprosy Dr Michael Taylor, University of Surrey Thursday, 24 May, 6 pm – Medecroft 16 Physicians and cultural authority in 20th century France Dr Joan Tumblety, University of Southampton (co-hosted with the Centre for Modern History)

Dr Julian Sims from Birbeck College, University of London will be speaking on 'Patient and Practitioner Health Communities in the late 20th and early 21st centuries'. Please join us in Medecroft 16 at 6pm for his paper followed by questions and a reception.

Please join us for our first seminar for the new academic year on Thursday, 28 September at 6pm in Medecroft 16 when Dr Julian Sims, Birbeck College, University of London will be speaking on 'Patient and Practitioner Health Communities in the late 20th and early 21st centuries'.

Please join us on Thursday 25 May at 6 pm for the final seminar of this academic year when Dr Michael Brown, Roehampton University will be speaking on 'Anxiety and Compassion: Emotions and the Surgical Encounter in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain'. This seminar and reception is co-hosted with the University of Winchester's Centre for Modern History and will take place on Medecroft 16 on the main King Alfred campus.

Dr Michael Brown, Roehampton University speaking on 'Anxiety and Compassion: Emotions and the Surgical Encounter in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain'. Seminar and reception co-hosted by the Centre for Modern History.