Damaging the Body: Physical Harm and the Self, 1850 - 2010

Seminars will be held at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of
Medicine at UCL, 183 Euston Road, in the 5th floor Seminar Room, from 6pm
- 7.30pm.

Monday 17th January
An Vleugels (UCL)
Hurting Bodies and Mind: Alcohol in Belgium 1848-1914

Tuesday 8th February
Chris Millard (Queen Mary, University of London)
Attempted Suicide and British Psychiatric Research: Registers of Space and
Knowledge Production

Monday 21st February
Ivan Crozier (University of Edinburgh)
Culture-Bound Syndromes, Koro and the Emergence of 'Cosmopolitan' Psychiatry

Monday 14th March
David Haslam (National Obesity Forum)
Imperfect Bodies?: Clinical and Sociological Perspectives on Obesity

Monday 9th May
Gemma Angel (UCL)
Title tbc. (19th century tattoos)

Tuesday 31st May
Sander Gilman (Emory University)
Title tbc.

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/histmed/library/Damaging_Termtwo2010