John Pickstone, University of Manchester
Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
Monday, November 5, 2007, 5:54 pm EST
Speaker: John Pickstone, Wellcome Research Professor, Faculty of Life Sciences and Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM), University of Manchester
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Place: Lounge, 3rd Floor of Logan Hall, 249 S. 36th Street
Prof. Pickstone will discuss his forthcoming book (co-authored with J. Anderson and F. Neary) on total hip replacement (THR), which transformed orthopaedics and became the basis of a global industry.