Cambridge Events in History of Medicine (360G-Wellcome-217081_Z_19_Z)

This application is to enable the Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science, a major centre of research in history of medicine and health, and the leading international centre for history of reproduction, to continue the annual Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine and to maintain and enhance our seminar series now that Wellcome core-funding awards have ended. The public lecture is the highlight of our year, an opportunity to showcase work, draw together a large community and invite advisors from Wellcome to speak to prospective and existing grantholders. The seminars, which alternate between ‘early medicine’, ‘modern medicine and biology’ and ‘generation to reproduction’, are an important forum for training, exchange and networking and the main intellectual focus for the department’s expanding group of historians of medicine and health. We will increase the value of the seminars by more routinely inviting colleagues from continental Europe, and by increasing access through covering the full cost of dinners. The reproduction theme develops our leadership role in that field; the other strands ensure intellectual breadth and provide space for new areas of special strength to emerge.