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Special Seminar: 26 January 2023
Dr Nils Hansson, Centre for Health and Society, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany
The Gender Award Gap: Invisibility of women in medical prize cultures
CHSTM Research Seminar: 6 December 2022
Professor Penny Harvey, Dept of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester
Geology as Unconforming Infrastructure: Engineering the containment of nuclear waste
CHSTM Research Seminar: 22 November 2022
Dr. Alexander Medcalf, Dept of History, University of York
“The most extensive photographic collection in the world”: Seeing Health “through the eyes” of the WHO, 1948-90’
CHSTM Research Seminar: 25 October 2022
Dr Noémi Tousignant, Dept of Science and Technology Studies, UCL
Cheap survival and a too-expensive vaccine: Racial valuation and Hepatitis B in Africa, 1980s-90s
CHSTM Research Seminar: 11 October 2022
Dr. Aditya Ramesh, Department of History, University of Manchester – Inventing the Urban River: The Case of the Cooum in Madras City
David Shreeve Doctoral Studentship in the History of Medicine
The University of Manchester’s Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM) and John Rylands Research Institute invite applications to undertake a fully funded 3 year doctoral studentship researching the history of neurology, neurosurgery and the brain sciences in Britain across the twentieth century.
Scientific Data in Science Diplomacy: Introducing the new ERC project Neworld@a
Please join us on 24 February for the launch meeting for a major new research project, funded by the European Research Council and directed by Dr Simone Turchetti. The meeting will be in hybrid format and attendance is free. Below you can find the programme and a...
Joint CHSTM/EAS Research Seminar: 16 Feb 2022
Please join us for a Joint CHSTM/EAS Research Seminar on Wednesday 16 February, 4-30-6pm.The seminar will be delivered in Hybrid format: live in the Simon Building, Theatre E, and online via Zoom. Please register here: https://tinyurl.com/hyungsub-choi-masksAttendance...
CHSTM Seminar 19 October 2021
Tuesday 19 October, 4pm, Simon 2.39 / Zoom (link tba) Dr Camille Bellet, CHSTM, and Dr Emily Morgan, Iowa State Breed(ing) narratives: Visualizing Values in Industrial Farming We’ll be meeting largely in person but opening it up as far as possible over Zoom – for...
Lyn Schumaker
With great sadness we announce that Dr Lyn Schumaker passed away on 29 June 2021 following a long illness. Lyn researched and wrote extensively on the history of anthropology and of medicine in Africa, including her book Africanizing Anthropology: Fieldwork,...
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