Is the growth in the emerging economies additional or are we growing more slowly? Speakers look at the limits to world economic growth from...
Twenty-first Century Threats: Malaria In 1955, the World Health Organization announced an ambitious plan...
Twenty-first Century Threats: Tuberculosis This lecture is a part of the series Twenty-First Century...
The Lost Hospitals of London: Leprosaria Today, any mention of the medieval leper conjures up alarming...
A Lark Arising: The Rural Past and Urban Histories, 1881 - 2011 The Census of April 1881 revealed an England which was...
From Jenner to Wakefield: The long shadow of the anti-vaccination movement In 1998 a medical furore broke out when The Lancet...
The life and legacy of Dr Edward Jenner FRS, pioneer of vaccination Known to many as “the father of immunology”, Edward Jenner...
Culture and Resistance: Indigenous Responses to a Globalised World This lecture looks at the place occupied by indigenous cultures...