Barts Pathology Museum Seminars
Wednesday 12th October, 2011
6pm, Bart's Pathology Museum
October-December 2011
You are invited to attend a unique series of seminars that promise both fascinating insights into a diverse range of topics in medical history, and also a glimpse into a little known London museum. Housed within the grounds of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital at West Smithfield, the museum holds a broad range of pathological specimens, some of which date from the late 1700s, and the papers programmed all speak in some way to this collection, as well as to each other. We hope you will able to join us for what promises to be a stimulating series of conversations.
Events are on Wednesdays and start at 5.30pm (doors open from 5pm) and end at 7.00pm unless otherwise stated. Wine and nibbles provided. For further information see: Barts Pathology Events [PDF]
14 December
David Ross (The Army Health Unit, Camberley) will present on public health and the military and Professor Edgar Jones (Kings College London) will speak on shell-shock and its representation in film.
12 October
Documentary filmmaker and producer Phil Stein will show excerpts from and speak on the making of Meet the Elephant Man(2010)
19 October – 6pm start, 7.30pm finish
Professor Tilli Tansey (Queen Mary) and Professor Brian Hurwitz (King College London) speaking on medical narratives and museum voices
9 November
Philip Ball (University of Cambridge) and a medical artist will speak on the history of medical illustration and their current practice
16 November
Dr Keir Waddington (Cardiff University) will speak on ‘Dying Scientifically: Gothic Romances and London’s Teaching Hospitals’. Dr Sam Alberti (The Royal College of Surgeon) and Dr Fay Bound Alberti (Queen Mary) will present on ‘Body Parts in Bart’s’
23 November
Dr Carmen Mangion and Dr Louise Hide from the Birkbeck Pain Project will speak on ‘Rhetorics of Pain in Nineteenth-Century Convent Necrologies’ be speaking on ‘Pain and Neurosyphilis’
30 November
Professor Sharon Ruston (University of Salford) will speak on ‘Shelly and Davy and the Bart’s Medical Archive’ and Professor Iwan Rhys Morus (University of Aberystwyth) will present on ‘Frankenstein and Vitality’