Future history of medicine events

 

NOVEMBER 2024

Worshipful Society of Apothecaries
Thursday 7 November, 18.30-19.30
Sydney Selwyn & Osler Lectures
To What Extent Should We Consider Moral Injury When Making Ethical Decisions in Healthcare? – Michael McEvoy
From Spring Tonic to Syphilis: Sassafras; An Indigenous Herbal Cure-all – Dr Kim Jacobson
https://www.apothecaries.org/events/category/cfhs-events/

West Sussex History of Medicine Society
Saturday 9 November, 10.00-12.00
New Insights into Advances in Battlefield Medicine in WW1 – Mr Dominic Hodgson
A Desperate Business: The Medical Services during the Siege of Kohima in April 1944 – Col (Retd) Jag Jagdish
https://wshoms.co.uk/

Lindsay Society for the History of Dentistry
Wednesday 13 November, 19.00 (Webinar)
Robert and Lilian Lindsay: an Italian adventure and the 1930 ISHM Congress
Helen Nield, President of the Society and Head of Library & Knowledge Services, British Dental Association
https://lindsaysociety.co.uk/events/

Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society
Wednesday 13 November, 19.45
Reinventing the Wheels in Acute Clinical Care – Dr Chris Custard
http://www.bristolmedchi.co.uk/

Old Operating Theatre
Monday 18 November, 18:00-20:30
A Night of Magic and Medicine – “Let magician Chris Benkin amaze you with an evening of illusions and dark tales, inspired by Victorian medicine”
https://oldoperatingtheatre.com/events-new/

West Sussex History of Medicine Society
Saturday 23 November, 10.00-12.00
A Hundred Years of Malaria History, 1920-2020 – Dr Tim Mason
The History of The Princess Margaret Hospital, Akrotiri – The UK’s Last Military Hospital – Col (Retd) David Vassallo
https://wshoms.co.uk/

British Society for the History of Pharmacy
Monday 25 November, 18.30 (Online)
The making of a quinologist: Cinchona and quinine science in the work of John Eliot Howard (1807-1883)
Dr Kim Walker, Royal Holloway / Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
https://www.bshp.org/events/

Worshipful Society of Apothecaries
Tuesday 26 November, 18.30-19.30
John Locke Lecture
Liberty versus Lies: The Future of 21st Century Society – Richard Horton
https://www.apothecaries.org/events/category/cfhs-events/

Surgeons’ Hall Museums
Thursday 28 November, 19.00 (Online)
Dissecting the Author: The Story of Lobotomy with Claire Prentice – in conversation with Surgeons’ Hall Museums Human Remains Conservator Cat Irving.
https://museum.rcsed.ac.uk/

Friends of Millbank
Friday 29 November, 18.30
Robert Jones – Fighting on Two Fronts – Tom Scotland
https://www.friendsofmillbank.org/programme/#gsc.tab=0

 

 

DECEMBER 2024

History of Medicine Society of the Royal Society of Medicine
Tuesday 3 December, 18.00-20.00
Sarah Hughes Trust Lecture
Press freedom and personal privacy – a clash of rights? – Baroness Hale of Richmond
https://www.rsm.ac.uk/events/history-of-medicine/2024-25/hst02/

The Osler Club of London
Thursday 12 December, 18.30 for 19.00
On the importance of bedside manner – Professor Martin Elliot
https://www.osler.org.uk/events/blog-post-four-hyyfe

 

 

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