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History of Medicine Multimedia
Podcast Catalogue
(as of May 2012)
History of Medicine Seminar Series
Spring 2012 (Forthcoming)
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Lee Humber (Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Dept of Clinical Health Care)
“From Deficiency to Difficulty: Three historical phases of constructing learning disability
since 1913“
7 February 2012
Judy Slinn (Business School)
“International or global?: The pharmaceutical industry 1950-2010“
13 March 2012
Alistair McGregor (Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Dept of Biological and Medical
Sciences)
“A History of Morphological Evolution: From Darwin to Lewis and beyond”
27 March 2012
Georgia Butina Watson (Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment, Dept of Planning)
"Place Identity and Healthy Cities"
17 April 2012
Mar Cuenca Lorente (University of Valencia)
"Making experts in the periphery: Toxicology in nineteenth-century Spain“
24 April 2012
Autumn 2011
Sally Sheard (University of Liverpool)
"The Rise of the Global Health Consultant: Brian Abel Smith (1926-1996)"
18 October 2011
Mark Gardiner (Oxford Brookes University)
"‘The Doctor’ by Luke Fildes (1891)"
1 November 2011

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Claudia Stein (University of Warwick)
"Fact and Ideals: The historical politics of Karl Sudhoff"
15 November 2011
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Paul Weindling (Oxford Brookes University)
“What Roles for the Historian of Medicine? Reflections from Researching
Human Experiments under National Socialism”
6 December 2011
Spring 2011
Kevin Siena (Trent University, Ontario, Canada)
‘‘The Itch’: The Strange Story of Skin Disease and Prejudice in the
Eighteenth Century’
15 February 2011
Mike Esbester (Oxford Brookes University Visiting Fellow)
‘Safety first! Individuals, Voluntary Organisations, and the British State in
Twentieth-Century Accident Prevention’
15 March 2011
Jane Stevens Crawshaw (Oxford Brookes University)
‘‘Cleanliness is next to Godliness’: The Problem of Plague in Early Modern
Venice’
29 March 2011
Despina Karatkatsani (University of Peloponnese, Greece)
‘Child Welfare and Mental Hygiene in Greece (1910-1940)’
5 April 2011

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John Hall (Oxford Brookes University)
‘St Andrew’s Hospital, Northampton: A Case Study in Mid Twentieth-
Century ‘Charitable’ Psychiatry’
3 May 2011
Autumn 2010
Theme: ‘Trials, Evidence and Human Experimentation’
Seminar convener: Dr Viviane Quirk
Mike Emanuel (Research Associate, Oxford Brookes University)
‘The Open Air School Movement in the first half of the Twentieth Century: A
"non-evidenced based" experiment in social health’
5 October 2010
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Sir Iain Chalmers (James Lind Initiative, Oxford)
‘Controlled trials before randomization’
19 October 2010
Christian Bonah (Medical School, University of Strasbourg)
‘Between experimental evidence, statistical trial and preventive care: the
changing tides of BCG evaluation with human beings, 1921- 1980’
16 November 2010
Brian Balmer and Norma Morris (Science and Technology Studies, UCL)
‘The experimental subject's experience in non-therapeutic clinical studies’
30 November 2010
Spring 2010
Theme: ‘Secrecy and Privacy in the History of Medicine’
Seminar convener: Paul Weindling
Charles Webster (Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford)
‘The NHS: The Secret History’
9 February 2010

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Georgina Ferry (Oxford Brookes University, Centre Research Associate)
‘Secrets or Lies? Secrecy and Privacy in the Biographies of two 20th-century
Scientists’
23 March 2010
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Autumn 2009
Theme: ‘Science, Medicine and Modernity: Shifting Boundaries, Unexpected Contexts’
Seminar conveners: Paul Weindling and Marius Turda
Benedek Varga (Semmelweis Museum, Budapest)
‘The Myth and Cult of Ignaz Semmelweis: Constructing History of Science
during the 20th Century’
20 October 2009
Maria Teschler-Nicola (Museum of Natural History, Vienna)
‘The Intersection of Anthropology and Medicine in Austria: From Weisbach
to Pöch’
3 November 2009
Volker Roelcke (University of Giessen)
‘Psychiatric Genetics in Germany, Britain, and the United States: Transfer
and Adaptation Processes in the Inseparable History of Eugenics and
Medical Genetics’
24 November 2009
Dan Stone (Royal Holloway, University of London)
‘The “Euthanasia Programme” and the “Final Solution”: The Limits of the
“Continuity Thesis”’
8 December 2009
Spring 2009
Theme: ‘Healthcare in Public and Private’
Seminar convener: Steve King
Anne Digby (Oxford Brookes University)
‘Expertise, Equity and Ethnicity: Healthcare in South Africa, 1940s-1990s’
17 March 2009

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Tim McHugh (Oxford Brookes University)
‘Rural Medicine in 18 th Century France’
27 April 2009
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‘Moments in Medicine’ Short Documentary Series
(Produced with Apercu Media)
Episode 10:
“A Treasure Chest of Medicine”
Episode 9:
“Before CSI: The Origins of Forensic Medicine and Science”
Episode 8:
“The Vaccination Debate”
Episode 7:
“Midwifery is from Venus - Medicine is from Mars”
Episode 6:
“The Impact of the Individual”

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Episode 5:
“From Eugenics to Newgenics”
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Episode 4:
“Sickle-Cell Research”
Episode 3:
“Disease in the Jet Age”
Episode 2:
“Clothing as Medicine?”
Episode 1:
“The History of Fat”

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Conference Coverage
"The German Archipelago: German Ethnic Minorities and Interwar Eugenics"
17-18 December 2011, Balliol College, Oxford
(12 Podcasts, forthcoming)
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"Promoting the Engagement with the Teaching of Economic History"
22 March 2012, Oxford Brookes University
(6 podcasts, forthcoming)
"Crafting Humans: From Genesis to Eugenics and Beyond"
8-10 September2011, The Queen's College, Oxford
(14 podcasts, hosted by The Berendel Foundation)
Moshe Idel (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
"Golem: Between Automaton and Human Being"
Frank R. Ankersmit (University of Groningen)
"Aftermaths and ‘Foremaths’"
Antonis Liakos (University of Athens)
"The End of History and the Liminality of the Human Condition: From Kojève to
Agamben"
Sorin Antohi (Berendel Foundation, London)
"From Cosmos to Polis: Making (and Unmaking) Humans"
Longxi Zhang (City University of Hong Kong)
"Frankenstein's Disciples: Tampering with Life and the Danger of Eugenics"

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Merryn Ekberg (University of Northampton)
"Eugenics: Past, Present and Future"
Roger Griffin (Oxford Brookes University)
"Bionomic Man (and Woman): Fantasies of Anthropological Revolution as the
Symptom of Modernity’s Nomic Crisis"
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Marius Turda (Oxford Brookes University)
"Crafting a Healthy Nation: Eugenic Texts and Biopolitical Practices"
Paul Weindling (Oxford Brookes University)
"The Biology of the Holocaust"
Dan Stone (Royal Holloway, University of London)
"Race Science and Race Mysticism in Nazi Genocide"
Alison Bashford (University of Sydney)
"Julian Huxley’s Transhumanism"
Nicholas Agar (Victoria University of Wellington)
"How Much Human Enhancement is Too Much?"
Diane B. Paul (University of Massachusetts)
"Commentary"
Yehuda Elkana (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin)
"Cosmopolis: Towards a New Type of Humans?"

‘The Disease Within:
Confinement in Europe, 1400-1800’
4-5 March 2011, Oxford Brookes University
(7 podcasts)
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Vanessa Harding (Birkbeck)
“Health and the Urban Environment”
Tim McHugh (Oxford Brookes)
“Playing the Confinement Card: Financing of small hospitals in Britany, 16662-
1772”
Laura McGough (Ghana)
“Female Asylums and the French Disease in Early Modern Venice” As read by Tricia
Allerston
Jane Stevens Crawshaw (Oxford Brookes)
“‘From a Distance it Looks like a Castle’: Contagion, communities and confinement
in early modern Venice”
Kevin Siena (Trent and Oxford Brookes International Research Fellow)
“Jail Fever: a story of class, contagion and panic in eighteenth-century London”
Alysa Levene (Oxford Brookes)
“Confined for their own Good”
Peter Jones (Oxford Brookes)
“Putting the ‘Work’ in ‘Workhouse’: The causes and effects of periodic confinement
on children under the English Old Poor Law”

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‘Health and Society:
Private and Public Medical Traditions in Greece and the
Balkans (1453-1920)’
8 – 10 December 2010, University of Athens,
(22 podcasts)
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Andrew Wear (The Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine, UCL)
“Some general aspects of the relationship between religion and medicine in the
early modern period”
Marius Turda (Oxford Brookes University)
“Ancients and moderns: The rise of social history of medicine in the Balkans”
Nikoletta Giantsi (University of Athens)
“Les théories médiévales sur la lèpre vues par un médecin grec du 19e siècle : Le
cas de Demeter Alexandre Zambaco”
Katerina Konstantinidou (University of Athens)
“Between soul and body: Hospital care in Venetian Corfu (17th &18th centuries)”
Mikel Nakuci (Institute of Dermatological Studies, Tirana)
“History of Albanian Medicine during the post Byzantine Period”
Agamemnon Tselikas (Historical and Paleographic Archive of the Cultural
Foundation of the National Bank of Greece)
“Methodological issues on the study of Iatrosophical manuscripts”
Octavian Buda (‘Carol Davila’ University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest)
“Variolation from the Balkans, through Romanian territories, to Western Europe,
1678 to 1802”

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Georgeta Nazarska (State University of Library Studies and IT, Sofia)
“The Balkan medical education and Bulgarian physicians: Transfer of knowledge,
1840s to 1920s”
Valentin-Veron Toma (Francisc Rainer Institute of Anthropology, Bucharest)
“The migration of medical students from the Balkans to Paris in the 19th century:
The case of Romania”
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Lydia Sapounaki-Dracaki (Panteion University)
“Food regulation in Greece: Doctors, police and municipal authorities as protectors
of the food market of the city of Piraeus (1835 to 1914)”
Constantine Maravelias (Museum of Criminology, School of Medicine, University
of Athens)
“Educating health professionals: The role of the Athens Museum of Criminology,
1833 to1920”
Gülhan Balsoy (Işik University, Istanbul)
“Agents of the state or agents of the local female networks?: Midwifes and the
new science of midwifery in the nineteenth century Ottoman society”
Katerina Gardikas (University of Athens)
“Midwives in the early years of Greek statehood”
Kristina Popova (South West University, Blagoevgrad)
“Working for the ill patient or working for a better society? The beginning of the
public health nursing in Bulgaria”
Despina Karakatsani (University of Peloponnese)
“‘The art of creating beautiful children’: Considerations on pro genetic engineering
and eugenics in the early 20th century”

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Vangelis Karamanolakis (Department of History, University of Athens)
“Attitudes to mental illness and treatment in turn of the 20th century Greece”
Despo Kritsotaki (University of Crete) & Vasia Lekka (University of Athens)
“Lay narratives of mental illness at the Dromokaiteion hospital, 1900 to 1920”
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Vaso Theodoru (Democritus University of Thrace)
“Caring for TB patients in early 20th century Greece: The foundation and operation
of Sotiria sanatorium, 1905 to 1920”
Paul J. Weindling (Oxford Brookes University)
“Social history of medicine in context”
‘Museums of Medicine in Past and Present:
Innovating the use of medical collections as public and
private academic resources’
12-14 May 2010, Semmelweis Museum Budapest.
(8 podcasts)
Tim Huisman (Museum Boerhaave, Leiden)
“Museum Boerhaave in Leiden: Presenting medical instruments in a history of science
context”
Benedek Varga (Semmelweis Museum, Budapest)
“Medical history museums in Hungary: From Representations of
Medical Profession to Public Awareness of the History of Health Issues”
Almut Grüner (Thackray Museum, Leeds)
“Medicine at the Movies: An Innovative Approach to Public Engagement and
Partnership”

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Anna Maerker (Oxford Brookes University):
“Anatomical Models: Museum-based Uses and Interpretations in Past, Present, and
Future”
Inger Wikström-Haugen (Medical History Museum, Gothenburg)
“From undocumented objects to a public, scientific museum: About the Medical
History Museum of Gothenburg, Sweden”
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Margit Berner (Museum of Natural History, Vienna)
“Exhibiting Physical Anthropology in Vienna: About the complexity of science,
collections and exhibitions”
Ruth Koblizek (Medical University of Vienna)
“The Josephinum”
Valentin-Veron Toma (Francisc Rainer Institute of Anthropology, Bucharest)
“Skulls, Bones and Embryos: Francis I. Rainer’s Medical and Anthropological
Collections in Bucharest, 1906-1944”
‘Eugenics, Race, and Psychiatry in the Baltic States:
A trans-national perspective, 1900-1945’
7-8 May 2009, Goethe Institut Riga
(6 podcasts)
Paul Weindling (Oxford Brookes University)
‘‘Eugenics, Race and Psychiatry in the Baltic States:
A Trans-National Perspective 1900-1945’’
Ken Kalling (University of Tartu)
‘’The Application of Eugenics in Estonia’’

Juris Salaks (Museum for the History of Medicine, Riga)
‘’The National Living Power Research Institute in Latvia and its Problem’’
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Björn Felder (University of Tübingen)
‘’Eugenics and Racial Identity in Latvia: Scientific Transfer and European Zeitgeist’’
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Arunas Germanavicius (University of Vilnius)
‘’Development of Lithuanian Psychiatry 1918 – 1940’’
Octavian Buda (National Institute of Legal Medicine Bucharest)
‘’From Psychiatry to Eugenics: The late works of Emil Kraepelin and the Eugenic
Debates in Interwar Romania’’