BSHM Webinar and Poynter Lecture: Infiltrating the Curriculum: A Historian’s Tales from the Medical Trench

On Monday 28 October 2024 the British Society for the History of Medicine (BSHM) organises a Webinar and Poynter Lecture. The 2024 BSHM Webinar will begin at 5pm (UK) with contributions from three invited speakers:

• Inside the Medical World of Stalin’s Gulag – Dan Healey
  Dan Healey is an expert on the social and cultural history of modern Russia and the Soviet Union and professor emeritus of modern Russian history at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia, Bolshevik Sexual Forensics, and Russian Homophobia from Stalin to Sochi. Dan’s most recent book is The Gulag Doctors: Life, Death, and Medicine in Stalin’s Labour Camps which has been nominated for the Pushkin House Book Prize 2024.
• Nostalgia and the National Health Service – Dr. Agnes Arnold-Foster
  Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster is a writer and historian of medicine and the emotions and a Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. She received her PhD from King’s College London and has written about the history of cancer, surgery, reproductive health, vaccines, pandemics, the NHS and nostalgia. Agnes has published three books: The Cancer Problem: Malignancy in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Cold, Hard Steel: The Myth of the Modern Surgeon and Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion.
• Investigating the Infected Blood Scandal – Cara McGoogan
  Cara McGoogan is the award-winning author of The Poison Line: Life and Death in the Infected Blood Scandal and Bed of Lies, a documentary podcast series in which she investigates major British scandals. She is the Telegraph’s first narrative audio journalist and her work has appeared in the Guardian, Washington Post, Prospect, New Statesman and on BBC Radio 4. Cara’s debut book The Poison Line was shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Prize.

The 2024 Poynter Lecture will follow at 7pm (UK).

Infiltrating the Curriculum: A Historian’s Tales from the Medical Trench

Professor Emerita Jacalyn Duffin MD PhD, haematologist and historian, her research focuses on disease, technology, religion, and health policy. She is the author of 11 books and more than 100 peer-reviewed articles. Her acclaimed History of Medicine: A Scandalously Short Introduction is now in its third edition and her latest book COVID-19: A History was published in 2022. She has joined a team of UK-based palaeopathologists to contribute to the fourth edition of The Archaeology of Disease.

Registration for the 2024 BSHM Webinar and Poynter Lecture is free of charge. For details on how to register, please visit this website.