Damaging The Body: Seminar Series
Physical Harm and the Self, 1850 - 2010
New Seminar Series 2012
Friday 23 March, 6pm
Åsa Jansson (Queen Mary, University of London)
Melancholia and 'Suicidal Propensities' in Victorian Medicine: Statistics, Diagnostics, and Classification
Melancholia and 'Suicidal Propensities' in Victorian Medicine: Statistics, Diagnostics, and Classification
Friday 20 April, 6pm
Dr James Nicholls (Bath Spa University)
It All Adds Up: Changing Models of Alcohol Harm
Wednesday 2 May, 6pm
Dr Katherine Watson (Oxford Brookes University)
Loss of Face: Vitriol Throwing in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Britain
All seminars will take place in the Wellcome Library, 2nd floor, 183 Euston Road, NW1 2BE. Please deposit bags and coats in the ground floor cloakroom and meet in the 2nd floor foyer. Doors at 6pm prompt, seminars will start by 6.15.