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Podcasts about the History of Medicine. Can the history of epidemics or the history of body fat help us better understand our susceptibility to illnesses like swine flu or provide a clue to the modern day rise of obesity?
History of Medicine #24: Suitable for Parenthood: The Eugenics of Reproductive Health in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain
In this seminar Gayle Davis shifts the conceptual framework from characterizations of pregnant women and motherhood more widely to those of women whos...
History of Medicine #23: Spinsters and Lesbians as Spiritual Mothers of the British Race
In this seminar Florence Binard explores the dichotomy of ‘eugenic feminists’ in contrast to ‘feminist eugenics’ by focusing primarily on authors of t...
History of Medicine #22: Send in the Clones? Naomi Mitchison (née Haldane)’s Musing on Reproduction, Breeding, Feminism, Socialism and Eugenics from the 1920s to the 1970s
In this seminar Lesley Hall investigates the relationship between feminism and eugenics through the fascinating lens of Naomi Mitchison’s fiction. JBS...
History of Medicine #21: Women, the Family and Eugenics in Nazi Germany
This seminar offers a particularly insightful, and far ranging investigation of German eugenics before the Nazi rise to power and in its aftermath, fo...
History of Medicine #20: Eugenics and Maternalism during the Century of Woman: Trends in Eastern Europe
In the larger context of arguing for recasting the twentieth century as ‘the century of woman’, this seminar seeks to highlight the role eugenics play...
History of Medicine #19: Eugeni-fascist Vitalism, Racial Prepotency, and Maternal Health in Interwar Italy
This seminar addresses the main theme of the lecture series on eugenics and maternal and child health by exploring the issue of ‘maternalism’ within t...
History of Medicine #18: Making experts in the periphery: Toxicology in nineteenth-century Spain
This seminar’s main objective is to provide an overview of Spanish toxicology in the nineteenth-century and analyzes aspects such as the formation of ...
History of Medicine #17: Place Identity and Healthy Cities
In this Seminar, Georgia Buttina Watson offers a range of remarkable insights into how urban planning and regeneration can dramatically affect not onl...
History of Medicine #16: A History of Morphological Evolution: From Darwin to Lewis and beyond
This seminar offers a fascinating and wideranging discussion of the history of morphological evolution conceptually a nd empirically, with a marked em...