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• Thu 5 Nov 20 · Digital Museum Lates at the Royal College of Physicians (Royal College of Physicians, London)

• Thu 25 Apr 19 · All the Living and All the Dead: How War and Spanish flu Changed our View of Death (Florence Nightingale Museum, London)

• Wed 6 Feb 19 · Artists under the skin: exhibition launch event and lecture (Royal College of Physicians, London)

• Thu 15 Nov 18 · Can smartphones deliver better eyecare for everyone? (Royal College of Physicians, London)

• Mon 12 Nov 18 · A woman and a doctor? Activism, medicine and the fight for equality (Royal College of Physicians, London)

• Tue 16 Oct 18 · Summer in the medicinal garden: plants poison in the works of Agatha Christie (Royal College of Physicians, London)

• Mon 10 Sep 18 · Summer in the medicinal garden: plant-based supplements and fortified food (Discover Medical London, London)

• Mon 16 Jul 18 · Summer in the medicinal garden: plants poison in the works of Agatha Christie (Royal College of Physicians, London)

• Mon 11 Jun 18 · Summer in the medicinal garden: a history of plants in anaesthesia (Royal College of Physicians, London)

• Tue 24 Apr 18 · 500 years of medicine. The future: The end of AIDS is up to us (Royal College of Physicians, London)

• Tue 24 Apr 18 · In the frame: portraits, power and personality (Royal College of Physicians, London)

• Tue 27 Mar 18 · 500 years of medicine. The future: population and personalised healthcare (Royal College of Physicians, London)

• Fri 15 Dec 17 · Christmas Quacks: the making of BBC2’s ‘Quacks’ (Royal College of Physicians, London)

• Wed 15 Nov 17 · The cusp of life and death: Sir Thomas Browne & the religion of a physician (Royal College of Physicians, London)

• Wed 25 Oct 17 · A Philosophical Perspective on the Microbiome (New Acropolis, London)

• Tue 6 Jun 17 · Children as Victims of Medical Experiments in Concentration Camps (The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, London)

• Wed 17 May 17 · Exhibition launch: Science + Suffering: Victims and Perpetrators of Nazi Human Experimentation (The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, London)

• Thu 4 May 17 · Why haven't we cured cancer yet? (IET London: Savoy Place, London)

• Tue 28 Mar 17 · Cracking the DNA code: can human genome sequencing help save lives in the NHS? (Royal College of Physicians, London)

• Wed 8 Mar 17 · Sanitary Skills: Health visiting past to present (Royal College of Nursing, London)

• Thu 23 Feb 17 · The Psyche on the Skin: A History of Self-harm (Royal College of Nursing, London)

• Wed 8 Feb 17 · Roald Dahl and the Big Friendly Neuroscientist (Royal College of Physicians, London)

• Wed 25 Jan 17 · The Journey of Childhood Public health: From the Victorian Age to the present (Royal College of Nursing, London)

• Thu 8 Dec 16 · Disability History Month at the RCN (Royal College of Nursing, London)

• Mon 28 Nov 16 · Pre-Wolfenden to PrEP: HIV and sexual health services then and now (Royal College of Nursing, London)

• Wed 23 Nov 16 · The Genital Touch: Understanding male cancers past and present (Manchester Central Library, Manchester)

• Wed 9 Nov 16 · Science Showoff: Are you being nursed? (Michaelhouse Centre, Cambridge)

• Mon 10 Oct 16 · Dangerous liaisons? The myth of mental illness and risk (Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham)

• Wed 5 Oct 16 · Desert Island Discs: Professor Elizabeth Anionwu (Royal College of Nursing, London)

• Wed 5 Oct 16 · From patient to person: changing the way we think about growing older (The Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh)

• Wed 28 Sep 16 · Obesity – a solvable worldwide pandemic? (Royal College of Physicians, London)

• Fri 9 Sep 16 · Inspiring Clinical Excellence through Science (Clark Kennedy Lecture Theatre, London)

• Thu 16 Jun 16 · London Thinks: Thinking the Unthinkable – The NHS (Conway Hall, London)

• Mon 9 May 16 · Dee late: inside John Dee's miraculous mind (Royal College of Physicians, London)

• Sat 7 May 16 · Bethlem and the Brain: Muzzling William Lawrence's Medical Materialism (Bethlem Museum of the Mind, Beckenham)

• Thu 5 May 16 · Free public lecture. The health gap: the challenge of an unequal world (Royal College of Physicians, London)

• Sat 30 Apr 16 · The more strictly we are watched, the better we behave: Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon (Bethlem Museum of the Mind, Beckenham)

• Sat 23 Apr 16 · The Roger Woledge Hackathon – Making Sense of Movement with the Virtual Prof (RoomG27, London)

• Fri 22 Apr 16 · Muscles and Movement (Arts Two Lecture Theatre, London)

• Thu 21 Apr 16 · Free public lecture: Curing, managing and living with dementia (Royal College of Physicians, London)

• Wed 20 Apr 16 · A life in health - in conversation with Dame Sally Davies (The Royal Society, London)

• Mon 18 Apr 16 · How tendons get better: an inclusive debate (Events Office, Queen Mary University of London, London)

• Wed 30 Mar 16 · The History of Cardiff City Mental Hospital (RCN Wales, Cardiff)

• Thu 25 Feb 16 · Outside the Asylum: Community Psychiatry Nursing (Royal College of Nursing, London)

• Wed 17 Feb 16 · Nursing Loud and Proud: LGBT History Month and the RCN (Royal College of Nursing, London)

• Wed 10 Feb 16 · "Curing Queers": Mental Nurses and their Patients (Royal College of Nursing, London)

• Sat 6 Feb 16 · Dr Alexander Morison and the interest in art he shared with Richard Dadd (Bethlem Museum of the Mind, Beckenham)

• Tue 15 Dec 15 · Winter Conference: ‘Risky Business’ – Risk Factors in Occupational Health (The Wellcome Collection, London)

• Thu 3 Dec 15 · The Mind-body Connection (Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre, Birmingham)

• Wed 25 Nov 15 · Art: Inspired by Medicine and Surgery (Florence Nightingale Museum, London)

• Tue 17 Nov 15 · Was the First World War good for medicine? (Centre of the Cell, London)

• Fri 6 Nov 15 · Personalized medicine challenges: from therapeutic to nutritional interventions (IMMUNOCLIN, LONDON)

• Mon 2 Nov 15 · Trauma: healing the brain (Lecture Theatre G16, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, London)

• Wed 14 Oct 15 · The Mind-body Connection (Friends Meeting House, London)

• Thu 8 Oct 15 · 'The greatest artist of her time?' (Bethlem Museum of the Mind, Beckenham)

• Tue 6 Oct 15 · Aeromedical Aspects of Flight Simulation (Royal Aeronautical Society, London)

• Thu 2 Jul 15 · The Mind-body Connection (Engineers' House Conference Centre, BRistol)

• Thu 18 Jun 15 · From Radium to radium - full circle (The Royal College of Radiologists, London)

• Thu 16 Apr 15 · The first 150 years of trying to understand MND (Royal College of Nursing, London)

• Thu 9 Apr 15 · Science on myself (The Royal Society, London)

• Sun 29 Mar 15 · Shipwrecked with Vincent Deary (Conway Hall, London)

• Sat 28 Mar 15 · Saturday Evening Lecture Series 2015 (Dalhousie Building, Dundee)

• Thu 5 Mar 15 · The Mind-body Connection (Friends Meeting House, London)

• Mon 1 Dec 14 · London Thinks - Ben Goldacre: I Think You'll Find It's a Bit More Complicated Than That! (Conway Hall, London)

• Tue 28 Oct 14 · Meaning, Myth, Magic and Mind-Bending Medicine (The October Gallery, London)

• Wed 18 Jun 14 · The desire to take medicine (Royal College of Physicians, London)

• Sun 13 Apr 14 · Cracked: why psychiatry is doing more harm than good (Conway Hall, London)

• Thu 3 Apr 14 · Creating artificial cells with use defined functions (Friends of Imperial College, LONDON)

• Thu 20 Feb 14 · The battle against influenza (Friends of Imperial College, London)

• Sat 15 Feb 14 · Extremes: Life, Death and the Limits of the Human Body (University of Dundee, Dundee)

• Sat 15 Feb 14 · Saturday Evening Lecture Series 2014 (Dalhousie Building, Dundee)

• Tue 4 Feb 14 · The Drugs Don't Work and Issues in Health Protection (King Alfred School, London)

• Thu 30 Jan 14 · AIDS Drugs for All: social movements and market transformations (New Theatre, East Building, London)

• Sat 30 Nov 13 · Science and Pseudo Science (Conway Hall, London)

• Thu 21 Nov 13 · Jean Shanks lecture 2013: Insights into the pathogenesis of cancer from cancer genome sequencing (Prince Philip House, London)

• Sat 9 Nov 13 · Sustainable Medicine: the rebirth of wisdom and compassion in healthcare (University of Westminster, London)

• Thu 7 Nov 13 · How to manage physical pain and accelerate healing (Friends Meeting House, London)

• Thu 31 Oct 13 · Surgical Horrors: The Operated Body in Horror Film and Literature (Old Operating Theatre, Museum & Herb Garret, London)

• Sat 26 Oct 13 · The Body Snatcher (Old Operating Theatre, Museum & Herb Garret, London)

• Mon 7 Oct 13 · Medical notes (Royal College of Physicians, London)

• Wed 18 Sep 13 · How to manage physical pain and accelerate healing (Clifton Hill House, University of Bristol, Bristol)

• Tue 6 Aug 13 · Lunchtime Lecture: "In paynted pots is hidden the deadliest poyson": English delftware drug jars at (Hunterian Museum, London, London)

• Fri 5 Jul 13 · Nature's marvellous medicine (The Royal Society, London)

• Thu 27 Jun 13 · How to manage physical pain and accelerate healing (Friends Meeting House, London)

• Sun 2 Jun 13 · The Rise of the Laptop Lizards – Fighting Unethical Medicine (Conway Hall, London)

• Fri 26 Apr 13 · The heart: The future of cardiovascular medicine and treatment (The Royal Society, London)

• Thu 11 Apr 13 · Snow’s Legacy: Epidemiology Today and Tomorrow (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London)

• Sun 7 Apr 13 · Sunday Lecture - Beware! The Vaccine A brief history of anti-vaccinationism (SPES, London)

• Sat 30 Mar 13 · Tricks of the Mind (SPES, London)

• Tue 12 Feb 13 · From Barbers to Surgeons (Hunterian Museum, London, London)

• Mon 4 Feb 13 · Bad Pharma (LSE Campus, venue TBC to ticket holders, London)

• Thu 6 Dec 12 · How to manage physical pain and accelerate healing (Friends Meeting House, London)

• Fri 23 Nov 12 · UCL Bite-Sized Lunchtime Lecture: medical missionaries and microglia malfunction (Chadwick Building Room B05, London)

• Fri 16 Nov 12 · UCL Bite-Sized Lunchtime Lecture: Hearts, minds and bankers (Chadwick Building Room B05, London)

• Mon 22 Oct 12 · Healing powers of the mind (Conway Hall, London)

• Sat 20 Oct 12 · Healing Powers of the Mind (Conway Hall, London)

• Mon 8 Oct 12 · The lion, the unicorn and the stag: heraldry, Hamey and van Dyck at the RCP (Royal College of Physicians, London)

• Thu 27 Sep 12 · Dickens and the Workhouse (Florence Nightingale Museum, London)

• Mon 24 Sep 12 · Florence Nightingale’s Legacy: her relevance to patient care today (Florence Nightingale Museum, London)

• Thu 20 Sep 12 · How to manage physical pain and accelerate healing (Clifton Hill House, University of Bristol, Bristol)

• Thu 13 Sep 12 · Marsilio Ficino Three books on life (Treadwell's Books, London)

• Sat 11 Aug 12 · Sue Palmer at the Florence Nightingale Museum (Florence Nightingale Museum, London)

• Wed 8 Aug 12 · Trepanning at the Florence Nightingale Museum (Florence Nightingale Museum, London)

• Sat 4 Aug 12 · Taxidermy at the Florence Nightingale Museum (Florence Nightingale Museum, London)

• Tue 3 Jul 12 · A high jump for science (The Royal Society, London)

• Tue 19 Jun 12 · How to manage physical pain and accelerate healing ( Old Dining Hall, Hulme Hall, Manchester)

• Thu 14 Jun 12 · How the Crimean War changed the face of Britain's men (Florence Nightingale Museum, London)

• Tue 12 Jun 12 · Changing lives globally: technological innovation for health (Friends of Imperial College, London)

• Mon 21 May 12 · Anatomy, dissection and discovery: Padua to Pall Mall (Royal College of Physicians, London)

• Fri 18 May 12 · Art in the Dark: The Art and History of Bethlem Royal Hospital (Bethlem Museum of the Mind, Beckenham)

• Thu 17 May 12 · Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole: Nurse and Doctress (Florence Nightingale Museum, London)

• Sat 5 May 12 · Bethlem Hospital: Worth a Visit? (Bethlem Museum of the Mind, Beckenham)

• Tue 1 May 12 · This is Your Hospital (Clocktower Activities Room, Croydon)

• Mon 30 Apr 12 · The nursing practice of Mary Seacole: influences, case studies and the opinion of others (Florence Nightingale Museum, London)

• Thu 26 Apr 12 · Pride and prejudice in nursing education (Florence Nightingale Museum, London)

• Tue 24 Apr 12 · Lister as a Pathologist (Hunterian Museum, London, London)

• Sat 14 Apr 12 · A Visit to Bethlem (Bethlem Museum of the Mind, Beckenham)

• Wed 21 Mar 12 · Bring Back Bed 13 - The treat from superstition and religion to the NHS (Bloomsbury Room, London)

• Wed 7 Mar 12 · Global health in the 21st Century (21st Century Challenges, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London)

• Tue 6 Mar 12 · Carbolic, Casebook and Controversy (Hunterian Museum, London, London)

• Tue 21 Feb 12 · Lord Lister: The early years (Hunterian Museum, London, London)

• Thu 2 Feb 12 · How to manage physical pain and accelerate healing (Friends Meeting House, London)

• Thu 19 Jan 12 · ‘Against Images Made By Hands’: Florence Nightingale’s Reluctant Life in Portraiture (Florence Nightingale Museum, London)

• Wed 21 Dec 11 · Christmas Ghost Stories at the Florence Nightingale Museum (Florence Nightingale Museum, London)

• Tue 6 Dec 11 · The Unknown Mary's Man (Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum, London)

• Thu 24 Nov 11 · Flo-Motion: Nightingale in Wellcome Sound and Vision (Florence Nightingale Museum, London)

• Mon 7 Nov 11 · Secrets of the Heart (The Royal Society of Medicine, London)

• Tue 1 Nov 11 · The Wonderful Adventures of Mary Seacole in Many Lands (Florence Nightingale Museum, London)

• Tue 18 Oct 11 · Disability, medicine and museums (Hunterian Museum, London, London)

• Mon 10 Oct 11 · Why You Can't Count on a Rational NHS (The Monarch Bar, London)

• Wed 22 Jun 11 · Curing Cancer with Radiotherapy: Past, Present and Future (The Royal Society of Medicine, London)

• Thu 16 Jun 11 · Leishmaniasis in Ethiopia (School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London)

• Tue 17 May 11 · A New Understanding of the Blakes’ Spirit World and the Underlying Aim of William’s Creativity (City of Westminster Archives Centre, London)

• Fri 13 May 11 · Parasites – enemy of the poor (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)

• Fri 13 May 11 · UCL Bite-Sized Lunchtime Lecture (UCL Darwin Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, London)

• Thu 12 May 11 · The Right to Die (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)

• Thu 12 May 11 · Swarm robots - the future of drug delivery? (Friends of Imperial College, London)

• Fri 6 May 11 · UCL Bite-Sized Lunchtime Lecture (UCL Darwin Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, London)

• Sun 5 Dec 10 · The Bio-Revolution and its Ethical Implications (Conway Hall, London)

• Tue 30 Nov 10 · The Early Medical Officers of Health (The Guildhall, Bath, Bath)

• Mon 8 Nov 10 · Stop worrying - radiation is good for you (The Royal Society of Medicine, London)

• Sat 23 Oct 10 · Criminal Intent and Responsibility: Exploring Conscious and Unconscious Motivation (Royal Society of Medicine, London)

• Tue 19 Oct 10 · Ethnobotany in a globalizing world: the Tsimane people of the Bolivian Amazon (Sustainable Uses Group, Kew)

• Tue 19 Oct 10 · Assisted Suicide Should Be Legalised: An Intelligence Squared Debate (Royal Geographical Society, London)

• Tue 19 Oct 10 · The End of Ageing (Imperial College, LONDON)

• Sat 24 Apr 10 · Humanity+ UK 2010 (Conway Hall, London)

• Thu 25 Mar 10 · The genii in our cells: how cells change and remember what they are (Friends of Imperial College, London)

• Tue 23 Mar 10 · Near Death Experiences During Cardiac Arrest (Psychology Seminar Series, Goldsmiths' College, London)

• Tue 9 Mar 10 · Biomedical Enhancement and the Ethics (Hong Kong Theatre, London School of Economics &Political Science, London)

• Sat 27 Feb 10 · China:Birth and belonging (Wellcome Collection, London)

• Wed 17 Feb 10 · Visual Perception (The Museum of London, London)

• Tue 2 Feb 10 · UCL Lunch Hour Lecture (UCL, London)

• Sat 30 Jan 10 · Trick or Treatment (SPES, London)

• Thu 5 Nov 09 · Heart attack - Behind the scenes (The Royal Institution, London)

• Wed 28 Oct 09 · Little Keats: ‘I Stood Tip-Toe Upon a Little Hill’ (Keats House, London)

• Mon 28 Sep 09 · Herbal Medicines at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: past, present and future (The Royal College of Physicians, London)

• Thu 24 Sep 09 · The Self Healing Heart: regenerating a sound heart after attack (Friends of Imperial College, London)

• Tue 15 Sep 09 · Health and Medicine on the Home Front: London 1939-45 (Shoe Lane Library, London)

• Mon 17 Aug 09 · Regenerative Medicine against Ageing: Can it be Comprehensive Enough? (The Penderels Oak, London)

• Tue 12 May 09 · Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine (and the Media) on Trial (Psychology Seminar Series, Goldsmiths' College, London)

• Thu 30 Apr 09 · A spoonful of medicine to make the sugar go down - Professor Joan Taylor, DMU (The Queens Building, De Montfort University, Leicester)

• Tue 28 Apr 09 · The Truth About Medical Ethics (The Wheatsheaf, London)

• Mon 27 Apr 09 · Arts Week 2009 (Queen Mary, University of London, London)

• Wed 1 Apr 09 · Scrofula, Melancholy and Dropsy: Samuel Johnson & Medicine (Dr Johnson's House, London)

• Wed 1 Apr 09 · Science in the News: The MMR Vaccine (Science Oxford Live, Oxford)

• Thu 5 Mar 09 · Medicine with a mission: Suffragettes as Army Surgeons (Hunterian Museum, London, London)

• Thu 19 Feb 09 · Trick or Treatment (Communications and Development, Imperial College London, London)

• Mon 16 Feb 09 · Fertillity and Feminism (Gresham College, London)

• Mon 2 Feb 09 · Oh My Poor Nerves! (Grosvenor Museum, Chester)

• Wed 14 Jan 09 · John Gerard & His Herbal: Folklore, Wisdom & medicine (Grosvenor Museum, Chester)

• Wed 10 Dec 08 · Near Death Experiences: Exploring the Mind-Body Connection (Treadwell's Books, London)

• Mon 24 Nov 08 · The Genetics of Common Human Diseases: Recent discoveries and their implications (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London School of Economics, London)

• Tue 28 Oct 08 · Contemporary attitudes to ageing and dying (Foyles, London)

• Thu 9 Oct 08 · Health and Happiness (Rudolf Steiner House, London)

• Fri 22 Aug 08 · The Body and Beyond I: Cross-Cultural Understandings of Subtle Energy (Bath Spa University, Bath)

• Sat 12 Jul 08 · Living longer and longer yet healthier and healthier: realistic grounds for hope? Speakers: Aubrey d (Birkbeck College, London)

• Sat 14 Jun 08 · Technology risks and the survival of humanity (Birkbeck College, London)

• Mon 9 Jun 08 · The Healing Intention: Conscious and Unconscious (Royal Society of Medicine, London)

• Wed 21 May 08 · How to win the nobel prize (Royal Institution, London)

• Sat 10 May 08 · Tomorrow's technologies emerging today (Birkbeck College, London)

• Tue 6 May 08 · Chiropractic - A 113 year struggle from pseudoscience to legitimacy (The Penderels Oak, London)

• Sat 19 Apr 08 · An Evening with James Randi & Friends (Conway Hall, London)

• Thu 10 Apr 08 · Louisa Garrett Anderson: suffragette and army surgeon (The Women's Library, London)

• Thu 20 Mar 08 · The Red Hand Gang: Surgeons in Georgian England (Shoe Lane Library, London)

• Tue 18 Mar 08 · Regulating Alternative Medicine: Are the Quacks Ducking the Issues? (The Penderels Oak, London)

• Sat 15 Mar 08 · Victorian Surgery (Old Operating Theatre, Museum & Herb Garret, London)

• Sat 15 Mar 08 · Effective New Ways of Improving Public Awareness of Modern Clinical Science (Old Operating Theatre, Museum & Herb Garret, London)

• Sat 15 Mar 08 · Transhumanism in the UK, 2008-2012: Hopes and fears, opportunities and risks. (Birkbeck College, LONDON)

• Tue 26 Feb 08 · The Role of Anthropolgy In Global Health Policy (Wilkins Old Refectory, London)

• Tue 12 Feb 08 · People Without Voices (Lecture Theatre G03, London)

• Tue 5 Feb 08 · Six Impossible Things before Breakfast - The Biology of Belief (Communications and Development, Imperial College London, London)

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