The sixth event in Theories and Methods: Literature, Science and Medicine will be held on the 14th -15th July 2011.

Day 1: Science and Gender: New Perspectives (University of Leicester)

This Royal Society of Medicine event will be held on Wednesday 15 June 2011.

Venues: The Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AZ and the Gordon Museum, Hodgkin House, Guy's Campus, GTK St Thomas's Street, London, SE1 9RT

CPD Two credits (Applied for)

9.40 am Registration

10.00 am Introduction and welcome
Dr Claire Elliott, President, History of Medicine Section 2010-2011, RSM

10.05 am Dickens and doctors
Professor Andrew Sanders, Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Durham, Past President of the Dickens Fellowship

This conference will be held on the 24-26 August 2011 in Rennes, France. It is organised by the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique (Paris/Rennes) and the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (Manchester)

Call for Papers: Medical History of WWI

San Antonio, Texas, US, 23-25 February 2012
Deadline: 1 September 2011
http://www.wfa-usa.org/new/fgsw2012jointseminar.htm

A public debate on "Organ donation: the cost of not giving" will be held.

Date: Thursday, 17 March
Time:18:30 - 20:00
Place: The Watershed
Address: 1 Canon's Road, Harbourside, Bristol, BS1 5TX

This public event will bring together people involved in organ donation and transplantation to discuss the current situation in the UK. You will have a chance to hear about the complexity of transplant coordination, the harrowing experience of waiting for and going through a transplant, as well as philosophical and moral issues surrounding organ donation.

Speakers include: