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>From the _Gazette_ of the Society for the Social History of Medicine
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1 `Industrialisation and Public Health: Redrawing the Picture'
Date: 7-8 April 1995 (obviously past, but perhaps still of some interest).
Speakers:
Alan Mayne on the verbal and visual representation
of slums; Keith Jackson on Humphrey Jennings's _Pandaemonium_;
Pyrs Gruffyd on the architecture of tuberculosis in urban
and rural inter-war Wales; Tim Boon will introduce a showing
of the MoH film `Health for the Nation'; Christopher Williams
on the impact of Stalinist industrialisation; John Sheail on
perceptions of the impact of industry on public/environmental
health in the first half of the century.
Further details: Tim Boon (e-mail: t.boon@ic.ac.uk)
2 `Industrialisation and Medical Practice: the Politics of Health'
Date: 15-16 September 1995
Venue: University of Wales at Swansea
Provisional programme includes: Peter Bartrip (anthrax and occupational
health in Victorian Britain); Joanna Bedford (division of labour in 19th-
century maternal health care); Jose Harris (medicine and the state); Clare
Holdsworth (factory legislation in the pottery industry); Ian Levitt
(sanitary knowledge and professional conduct); John Pickstone (health and
medicine in industrial England); Susan Pitt (professional power and post-
War childbirth); Leonard Smith (class and rank in the asylum).
Further details: Anne Borsay, Dept of History, University of Wales,
Lampeter, Dyfed, SA48 7ED (fax: 01570-423782).
3 The history of psychiatry in Scotland
Date: 17-19 July 1995
Speakers include: Roy Porter; Akihito Sizuki; Harriet Sturdy; and
Francis McKee.
Contact: Dr F McKee, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, 5,
University Gardens, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ.
-- Dave Postles +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + Dept of English Local History, 5, Salisbury Road, Leicester, England, + + LE1 7QR pot@le.ac.uk + + Quod omnes tangit ab omnibus approbetur + +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++