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UK-wide: medical and georgian history talks, Bournville
After a long career as a medical scientist I like to talk in an entertaining and accessible way about public health subjects that affect us all.
A popular talk is Antibiotic Resistance – the ticking time bomb, about the potential problems about the overuse of antibiotics.
Another talk is ‘Smoking, e-cigarettes and alcohol – good, bad or indifferent
‘You’ve got to have guts’ is about the workings of the intestines.
I have been using my medical knowledge to study the techniques and equipment used in battlefield surgery during the Napoleonic period and produced a talk entitled ‘Battlefield surgery – the men and their bloody knives’.
I have studied other characters who made the late Georgian period such an interesting time, including the ‘The Grand Old Duke of York – the soldiers’ friend’ and ‘Mary Anne Clarke – a right royal scandal’.
Finally the life story of the politician and campaigner who abolished the Slave Trade ‘William Wilberforce – a man who changed the world’.
More info
I give illustrated talks of about 40 minutes. Usual price £80 plus 20p per mile (For smaller groups the price is negotiable). Location Bournville, Birmingham. Availability – prefer Midlands but willing to travel.
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