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Date: Mon Oct 16, 2017 @ 4:30-5:30PM
Location: Theatre A, Sir Charles Tupper Medical Bldg. Link; with videoconferencing to DMNB Saint John Rm 105, Fredericton Rm 220 Miramichi Rm 3111

Talk Title “From Mr. Pickwick to Tiny Tim: Charles Dickens & Medicine”

This annual public event is presetned by the Division of Medical Education & Continuing Professional Development, Dalhousie University, Faculty of Medicine.

Dr. Nicholas Cambridge, Honorary Research Fellow in Humanities & Medical History University of Buckingham, UK.

Nicholas qualified as an electrical engineer in 1970 and then decided to become a doctor. He graduated from The Middlesex Hospital, London in 1977 and as a student won the first history of medicine prize offered by the Royal Society of Medicine. After a variety of clinical posts Nicholas became a family doctor in Surrey for twenty-five years. Whilst still running a busy practice he obtained his MD in medical history working part-time at The Wellcome Trust Centre of the History of Medicine at University College London. He retired at 60 in order to pursue his interests in medical history further. He has published in the journals of the various societies with which he is involved and where he has lectured.