Booth Lectures: Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, 11/06
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 18:06:35 +0100
From: Prof. Harold Cook <h.cook@ucl.ac.uk>
The Booth Lecture
'AIDS Relief and Global Biomedicine Today: The Re-emergence of a
Military-Therapeutic Complex in Africa?'
Dr Vinh-Kim Nguyen
Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Montreal
Wednesday 29 November 2006, 17.30, followed by a reception
Lecture Room, 210 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE
Attendance is free but by ticket only and you are advised to register no
later than Monday 20 November.
To request a ticket/tickets, please send a stamped addressed envelope,
clearly marked 'Booth Lecture', to:
Carol Bowen
Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL
210 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE
The Booth Lecture has been inaugurated to acknowledge the important
contributions to the history of medicine made by medical practitioners, and
will alternate with the Centre's Kass Lecture (which promotes Anglo-American
cooperation in the history of medicine). It is named in honour of Sir
Christopher Booth, an Honorary Professor of UCL and valued member of the
Centre, who has been a champion for the highest standards of research
publication in the subject no matter what the formal qualifications of the
author. Among his many services to medicine were his roles as Director of
the Clinical Research Centre of the Medical Research Council (1978-1988),
President of the British Medical Association (1986-7) and President of the
Royal Society of Medicine (1988); among his many services to history were
his roles as Harveian Librarian of the Royal College of Physicians
(1989-1997), founding member (in 1990) of the History of 20th Century
Medicine Group, and many years of service on the Wellcome Trust's history of
medicine funding committee. In addition to his wide-ranging essays on
medicine in the 20th century, he has published on Quakers in Britain,
especially on their medical brethren of the 18th century, such as John
Fothergill and John Haygarth.
Dr Carole Reeves
Outreach Historian
The Wellcome Trust Centre
for the History of Medicine at UCL
210 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE
Tel: +44 (0)207 679 8135
Email: c.reeves@ucl.ac.uk
Website: www.ucl.ac.uk/histmed
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