Royal Society of Medicine

History of Medicine Section –Programme 2009/10

President: Dr Tina Matthews

Secretary: Dr Alan Bates

Theme “Pathology”

Wednesday 7 October 2009 Benjamin Collins Brodie

Dr John S Sheldrake MA MPhil DHMSA FRHistS

Senior Lecturer UEL Consultant Lecturer Imperial College

Wednesday 21 October 2009 Johnson Symposium (afternoon)

speakers to include:

Rt Rev Lord Harries of Pentregarth

Dr John Ward

Prof TJ Murray (Dalhousie University, Canada)

Mr Simon Chaplin

Wednesday 4 November 2009 A History of Pathology Museums

Mr William GJ Edwards, Keeper, Gordon Museum, Kings College London, Guy’s Campus, Hodgkin House, St Thomas’s Street, LONDON SE1 9RT

Wednesday 2 December 2009 How Your Teachers Misled You About Germ Theory and Evolution

Dr Milton Wainwright

Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology,

University of Sheffield, SHEFFIELD S10 2TN

Wednesday 3 February 2010 Norah Schuster Prize

Deadline for submissions – 1 September 2009

Wednesday 3 March 2010 Art and Anatomy

Dr Ann Ferguson DHMSA

Wednesday 7 April 2010 "Dicing with Death: 5500 years of human dissection and the autopsy"

Dr Julian Burton MBChB (Hons) MEd ILTM

Academic Unit of Pathology

SHEFFIELD S10 2RX

Thursday 23rd April 2010 Joint Meeting with Urology section

Details TBC

Wednesday 5 May 2010 AGM

Presidential Address – “What are human beings made of?”

Dr Tina Matthews BM FRCPath DHMSA

Wednesday 2nd June 2010 Summer Outing to Epsom