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preservation enabled invisible instruments of economic utility to become visible objects of curiosity and, ultimately, politics; and how enslaved African agency both made and contested knowledge in the Atlantic world.

3. 9. In what ways was eighteenth-century natural history an economic practice? ... 1. 9. To what extent did the social and economic status of medieval and early modern patients determine how and where they were treated?

historians might revise the understandings of a saltation in twentieth-century political and economic history.

Q11 on how anthropologists challenged understandings of “universal economic man” was particularly popular, and received some excellent answers, indicating that students like questions that allow them to develop some critical edge.

Organised by Michael Bycroft and Minwoo Seo. 27 April Josh Nall introduces Michael Polanyi Michael Polanyi, ‘The Rights and Duties of Science’, Manchester School of Economic and.

I will argue that recent work claiming to identify change in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century notions of generation, and to tie this to very specific social and economic changes, overlooks the

Finally, the claim that for a condition to be pathological it must be potentially medically treatable is needed to distinguish disorders from other types of misfortune, for example economic problems and

in poetry; some even in economic thought. ... Understanding the book as a physical object is a vital complement to the study of its contents, helping to locate its economic and social context, its audience, and ultimately its historical

Literature and Science 1700-1830 A series of six lectures and classes on Mondays at 10am in the Meade Room, Faculty of Economics, Sidgwick Avenue.

27 February Caroline Cornish (Royal Holloway) Curating science in an age of empire: the Kew Museums of Economic Botany.