Professor Dan Todes will be speaking at the St. Petersburg branch of the Institute of History of Science and Technology at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaia nab. #7, on Tuesday, September 29, 2015 at noon. The title of his talk is: "Что есть самое трудное, самое страшное в человеческой жизни?" Последняя зима Ивана Петровича Павлова.
Harold Cook, Brown University
Descartes' Early Medical Interests: Some Conjectures
3:00-4:30 p.m., Seminar Room, Institute of the History of Medicine
https://vivo.brown.edu/display/hjcook
At the 14th International Conference of the History of Science in East Asia ( http://14ichsea.sciencesconf.org) held at L'Ecole des Haute Etudes des Sciences Sociales in Paris this past July, Marta became the President of the International Society for the History of East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine (ISHEASTM). She has been a member since its establishment 25 years ago in Cambridge, England, and will oversee it during the next four years.
Grad student Marion Schmidt has been appointed to the editorial board of a new journal, Considering Disability. Congratulatoins Marion and best wishes for the success of the journal!
Howard Kushner, Emory University
Curing Left-Handers or Creating Stutterers? The Controversy over the (re)Education of Left-Handers in 20th-Century America
3:00-4:30pm, Seminar Room, Institute of the History of Medicine
http://ila.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/kushner.html
Peter Thorsheim, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Hidden Dangers: Munitions Factories, Health, and the Environment in Wartime Britain
3:00-4:30pm, Seminar Room, 3rd Floor, Institute of the History of Medicine
http://history.uncc.edu/dr-peter-thorsheim
Suman Seth, Cornell University
Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and Locality in the 18th Century British Empire
3:00-4:30pm, Room 300, Gilman Hall, Homewood Campus
He Bian, Princeton University
Masters of the Medicine Chamber: Pharmaceutical Expertise in Early Modern China
3:00-4:30pm, Seminar Room, 3rd Floor, Institute of the History of Medicine
Alex Wellerstein, Stevens Institute of Technology
“The Possibility of Much Bigger Bangs”: US Official Interest in “Very High Yield” Nuclear Weapons, 1942-1963 [no precirculated paper]
3:00-4:30pm, Room 300, Gilman Hall, Homewood Campus
Professor Mary Fissell writes about her research into Aristotle's Masterpiece in The Public Domain Review.
A wildly popular sex manual – first published in 17th-century London and reprinted in hundreds of subsequent editions – Aristotle's Masterpiece both taught and titillated through the early modern period and beyond.
