Download a Lecture

The 2009 Series of Lectures are being prepared for downloading. Here are some of the titles that we hope to make available very shortly.

October

Would you give your children smallpox? The Yorkshire origin of evidence-based medicine.

Healthy Ageing. The role of diet and lifestyle.

November

Dead subjects and a dying profession. The rise and fall of the Morbid Anatomist.

Sunrise to Sunset for Melanoma. History of yet another medical myth.

December

Doctors right and wrong. The development of medical ethics

The Biological clock. Sleeplessness and jet-lag - Why?

January

Death in 24 hours. Anthrax in Victorian Bradford.

50 Years of Medicine. How it has changed!

February

The History of Surgery for Obesity. A bigger problem than ever?

The making of Mr. Gray's Anatomy. The best known of all medical books?

March

Rationing and its effects on health. Might there be Benefits?

Bogus Doctors and Medical Imposters.

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