Lectures available from

Kevin Brown

Kevin Brown is Trust Archivist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and

Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum Curator at St Mary’s Hospital in London

where he set up the Archives Service and Museum. He is former Chairman of

the London Museums of Health and Medicine. He has written a number of

books on the history of health and medicine and is an experienced speaker.

This is a selection of talks he has given.

Kevin Brown has lectured widely in Britain and abroad, including:*Rutgers University * US Department of Agriculture National Center for Agricultural Research* Johns Hopkins University Medical School* University of Rome* Royal College of Nursing History of Nursing Forum* Hunterian Museum at Royal College of Surgeons* Royal Society 350th Anniversary event•International Society of Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery (ISMICS) annual conference • National Army Museum* Hellenic Medical Society and Eteria Ellinon Epistimon* Royal Pharmaceutical Society* British Society for History of Pharmacy* School of Pharmacy (University of London) * University of Brighton and Sussex Medical School* National Tartan Day Washington DC * Archives et Bibliothèques de Belgique• History of Plastics Society • Society of General Microbiology,* University of Liverpool * Ehrlich II Conference Nuremberg * Sankey Clinico-Pathological Society

After dinner

speaking

Andrew Moyer Lecturer, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, Peoria, Illinois

The first historian to deliver this scientific lecture. 2001

Kevin Brown unveiling memorial at Fleming’s birthplace, Lochfield Farm,

Darvel, 2009

Unveiling of memorial at Fleming’s birthplace, Lochfield Farm, Darvel, 2009

either telephone Kevin

Brown on 020 331 26528 /

0778 990 5748;

or email Kevin.Brown@imperial.nhs.uk

penicillin.man@gmail.com

To arrange a lecture or discuss a

tailor-made one

A selection of popular lecture titles follows

‘Would you ever have thought such a thing

possible?’: Alexander Fleming and the FRS

Kevin Brownhttp://royalsociety.org/rscience/ (click on Episode 13, May 2010, Giants

of Science. )

http://www.rcseng.ac.uk/museums/events/audio-video-and-transcripts

(click on Fleming Museum logo to hear talk)

The Mould that

Changed the

World: Alexander

Fleming and

Penicillin

Kevin Brown

A Great Scot:

Alexander

Fleming and

Scotland

Kevin Brown

Alexander

Fleming,

Penicillin and

Greece

Kevin Brown

Aspects of

Hospital and

Nursing

History

Kevin Brown

The Apprentice Barber-Surgeon to FRCS:

Why is a Surgeon a Mr and not a Dr?

Kevin Brown

Plague Pestilence

Panic

Kevin Brown

The Fight

Against Infection

Kevin Brown

A Night With Venus, A Lifetime of Mercury

Kevin Brown

‘DUrable,

REliant,

EXcellent’

Kevin Brown

Nursing Bad

Blood: Nurse

Eunice Rivers

and the Tuskegee

Experiment

Kevin Brown

More than "Geduld, Geschick, Geld

und Gluck": Paul Ehrlich, Almroth

Wright and Alexander FlemingKevin Brown

The Doctor’s

Dilemma: A Play for

Today?

George Bernard

Shaw and his

inspiration, Sir

Almroth Wright

Kevin Brown

Dr Zammit and

the Maltese

Goats: the

Conquest of

Mediterranean

Fever

Kevin Brown

‘All That Wheezes’:

Asthma through the

Ages

Kevin Brown

War and Medicine:

How to Stay Fighting

Fit in two World

Wars

Kevin Brown

‘Virile Bodies

Brought to

Nothing More

than Slugs on

the Ground’:

the Fight

Against

Infection in

the Great

War’Kevin Brown

Medicine in the Blitz

Kevin Brown

The National Health Service:

A Retrospective

Kevin Brown

Pioneer Surgeon

and Social

Reformer:

Joseph Toynbee

and his Legacy

Kevin Brown

'The true teacher

of our age':

Giuseppe

Mazzini and his

London circle.

Kevin Brown

Italians into the

World: the Emigrant

Experience

Kevin Brown

The Health of

the Seaman:

Medicine at Sea

Kevin Brown

‘It is Easier for an Officer to Keep Men

Healthy than for a Physician to Cure them’:

Medicine at Sea in the Age of NelsonKevin Brown

Doctors at Sea: Health and Fitness on

Liners on Ocean Voyages

Kevin Brown

What Connects the

Bacteriologist

Robert Koch,

Marshal Tito’s

Holiday Resort &

James Bond’s

Italian Tailor

Licensed to Kill?

Kevin Brown

Unintended Consequences

Medical and Nursing

Biographies: A

Biographer’s view

Kevin Brown

It Shouldn’t Happen

to an Archivist:

Tales from the Front

Line

Kevin Brown

“If It’s Old and Dusty,

It Belongs in the

Archives”

Kevin Brown

To arrange a lecture or discuss a

tailor-made one

either telephone Kevin Brown on

020 331 26528 / 0778 990 5748;

or email

Kevin.Brown@imperial.nhs.uk

penicillin.man@gmail.com

Books by

Kevin Brown

ISBN

0750931523

ISBN

0750940417

ISBN

0750931531

ISBN

978075094549

ISBN

1848320639

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ISBN1848320639 Seaforth Publishing

US Edition published by US Naval

Institute Press, ISBN 159114809X