The Constructing Scientific Communities project and the Hunterian Museum have co-curated an exhibition on the history of vaccination, which will open on 19th April

Vaccination: Medicine and the Masses Exhibition and Events Posted: 30 Mar 2016 04:07 AM PDT The Constructing Scientific Communities project and the Hunterian Museum have co-curated an exhibition on the history of vaccination, which will open on 19th April. Vaccination: Medicine and the Masses will run in the Qvist Gallery at the Hunterian Museum  from Tuesday 19 April to Saturday 17 September. Admission is free. Further information on the exhibition and the opening hours are available on the Museum’s website Other events connected to the exhibition will be taking place during May at the Hunterian Museum, Royal College of Surgeons of England, 35-43 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3PE. People Powered Medicine – a one day public symposium will be held on Saturday 7 May. The full details and programme are available on the event post below. To register for the symposium, please click here. Museums at Night: Vaccination Yes or No? is a free event on 12 May from 6-9pm looking at the history of vaccination. The British Society for the History of Science’s Strolling Players will be performing, and Dr Richard Barnett, medical historian and author will be discussing illustrations of infectious disease from his book The Sick Rose. The evening will also include a viewing of the Vaccination: Medicine and the Masses exhibition. To register for your free ticket, please click here.  This event is for adults and children over 14. Professor Gareth Williams will give a Lunchtime Lecture on 17 May at 1pm on The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: Edward Jenner. Booking is required, and full details are available here. Tickets are £4. Admission is free for RCS fellows and members, RCS affiliates, medical students and Hunterian Society members.

Medicine & Media: A Gathering of Francophone and Anglophone Projects in Medicine and the Humanities Posted: 30 Mar 2016 03:32 AM PDT Dr Sally Frampton and Dr Berris Charnley will be speaking at the  Medicine & Media: A Gathering of Francophone and Anglophone Projects in Medicine and the Humanities workshop on 7-8 April 2016. This workshop is the result of a collaboration between scholars from the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, Université Sorbonne Paris Cité, Université Paris Diderot, The Wellcome Trust, Université de Fribourg and the ‘Diseases of Modern Life’  Project at the University of Oxford. Its aim is to bring together Francophone and Anglophone projects of medicine and the humanities based at a number of European universities, with a view to facilitating future collaboration and scholarly exchange (e.g. by learning from each other’s methodologies, objects of research and research practices). Members of the academic community are invited for what promises to be an exciting two days of talks and debate. A link to the full programme and the list of participating projects can be found here: http://www.sorbonne-paris-cite.fr/fr/download/2018 Workshop participation is free of charge, but please note there is a fee of £20 if you wish to join the speakers for lunch on Friday. To register, please contact: medicine.media2016@gmail.com