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Gifford Lecture and Masterclass: Professor Sheila Jasanoff, ‘Social Orders in Scientific Biomedicine’, Edinburgh

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Regulation in Action: Social Orders in Scientific Biomedicine Insights from the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) have profoundly altered our understanding of the relation between technoscience and politics. Rather than viewing them as separate spheres, STS scholars have demonstrated that epistemic and social orders are coproduced. Further, by moving attention to the effects… Continue reading →

Seminar, Jane Coutts: ‘Illustrating microorganisms: Sir William Watson Cheyne and early bacteriology in British medicine’, University of Glasgow

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Illustrating microorganisms: Sir William Watson Cheyne and early bacteriology in British medicine Seminar by Jane Coutts, co-hosted by the Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine (Tiziana Lembo) and Institute of Health and Wellbeing (Malcolm Nicolson) Monday 30th November 2015, 16:00 – 17:00 Yudowitz Seminar Room 1, Wolfson Medical Building, University of Glasgow Sir… Continue reading →

Guest Lecture, Prof. John Abraham (KCL): ‘Pharmaceutical Progress and Promissory Science: Regulatory Change, Innovation, and Public Health’, Edinburgh

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Professor John Abraham, Pharmaceutical Progress and Promissory Science: Regulatory Change, Innovation, and Public Health Date: 12-1pm, Thursday 3rd December 2015 Venue: Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre, Doorway 1, Teviot Place, Edinburgh   Abstract Drawing on years of fieldwork in the US and the EU, this lecture examines the relationship between government measures to stimulate and increase the… Continue reading →

Guest Lecture, Dörte Bemme (McGill): ‘The re-configuration of “Mental Health” into a global object of care’, University of Glasgow

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Dörte Bemme, ‘The re-configuration of ‘Mental Health’ into a global object of care’ Date: Thursday 3rd December 2015 Time:12.30pm Venue: Sir Charles Wilson Seminar Room A/B, 1 University Ave, G12 8NN Chair: Dr Ross White Register: DörteBemme.eventbrite.co.uk Visiting lecture by Dörte Bemme, a PhD candidate at McGill University. Her research involves multi-sited fieldwork within the institutional assemblage of… Continue reading →

Guest Lecture, Professor Murthy (Bangalore): ‘Addiction treatment services in India – bridging chasms, not just gaps’, University of Glasgow

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Professor Pratima Murthy, ‘Addiction treatment services in India – bridging chasms, not just gaps’ Date: Thursday 26th November 2015 Time: 1-2pm, lunch will be served 30mins beforehand Venue: Sir Charles Wilson Seminar Room A/B – lower level Chair: Dr Kenneth Mullen  REGISTER: visit Pratima Murthy.eventbrite.co.uk Visiting lecture by Professor Pratima Murthy, Professor of Psychiatry, National Institute… Continue reading →

Keynote Lecture, Royal College of Physicians: Prof. Brian McKinstry, ‘Someone to Watch Over Me: Machine Surveillance’, Edinburgh

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Tuesday 10th November | 07.00pm for 07.45pm Royal College of Physicians, 9 Queen Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1JQ Professor Brian McKinstry FRCGP “Someone To Watch Over Me: Is machine surveillance the future of long-term condition management?” Our population is aging and as a result the numbers of people with multiple long-term conditions is rising.  Soon this growth will… Continue reading →

Lecture: Prof. Dan Malleck, ‘Drinks, drunks, and docs: medicine, policy, and twentieth century liquor control in Canada and the UK’, Strathclyde

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  On Wednesday 21st October, Professor Dan Malleck, of Brock University in St Catharines, Ontario, will be giving a paper at the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (CSHHH), University of Strathclyde, entitled: ‘Drinks, drunks, and docs: Medicine, policy, and twentieth century liquor control in Canada and the UK’.  Please join us at 2pm… Continue reading →

C. L. Oakley Lecture: Thomas Dixon, ‘Healing Tears: Crying for Your Health in Modern British Culture’, Leeds

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The C.L. Oakley Lecture in Medicine and the Arts: Thomas Dixon (QMUL) – Tuesday 27th October, 5.30-7pm Maurice Keyworth Lecture Theatre (G.02), Leeds University Business School This lecture will trace the cultural history of medical ideas about tears and weeping in Britain since the early modern period. From the Shakespearean age to the present, medical theories about… Continue reading →

MH Lecture, Sheila Dickson, University of Glasgow

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Date: 1pm, 2nd December 2015 Location: Room 317, Hetherington Building, University of Glasgow As part of the University of Glasgow’s School of Modern Languages and Cultures Research Seminars, Dr Sheila Dickson will be presenting on he work on the history of psychiatry. Dr Dickson’s paper is entitled ‘The development of Psychiatry as Medical Specialism in the Enlightenment period:… Continue reading →

CSHHH Annual Lecture – Jackie Duffin, ‘Tales from the Trenches: Bringing Medical History to Clinicians’, Strathclyde

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We are very privileged to have Professor Jackie Duffin from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario give the CSHHH Annual Lecture this year.  Jackie will present: ‘Tales from the Trenches: Bringing Medical History to Clinicians’. A practicing physician, haematologist, and historian, Professor Jackie Duffin has combined her training and experience as a medical professional into ground-breaking and infectious historical… Continue reading →