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The Shape of Things to Come: Future Demography Around the World

Much attention is given to the total number of people...

The Prevention of Cancer

Different cancers offer differing hopes of prevention; from cervical or lung cancer (which are completely or largely preventable), to prostate cancer (for which there is no current strategy). What can be done, and what does the future hold?

How can you have too much choice?

Choice is good, right? Consumer choice or voter choice -...

Suffer the Little Children: The Gradual Improvement in Child Health has Left Newborns Behind

Chilhood globally, and in Britain, is now safer than at...

Keeping the Heart Young in an Old Body

The heart was the organ that, until recently, aged fastest...

Does society risk my life through safety? The perils of too much risk-aversion

We would all like a riskless life, right? The Precautionary...

The Eradication of Infectious Diseases

Eradicating an infectious disease for all time is one of the greatest gifts a generation can give to all subsequent ones. This lecture will examine the opportunities and difficulties of eradication.

Ebola: Emergence, Epidemic and the Global Response

The current outbreak of Ebola in West Africa is probably...

The German revolution in English organ technology

This lecture continues the series' exploration of the history of...

Architecture and the Edwardian Era

Edwardian architecture in particular provides a fascinating commentary on broader historical themes – not only in its use of style and its remodelling of old buildings but also in the range of new activities it provided for.

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