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The medicine of the friars in late medieval England
The next seminar in the 2015–16 History of Pre-Modern Medicine Seminar Series takes place on Tuesday 2 February. Speaker: Peter Jones (University of Cambridge) The medicine of the friars in late medieval England Abstract: Compared to occupational groups like physicians, surgeons, barbers, apothecaries and… Continue reading
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‘On heart and liver in Chinese and Tibetan medicine’
The next seminar in the 2015–16 History of Pre-Modern Medicine Seminar Series takes place on Tuesday 19 January. Speaker: Professor Elisabeth Hsu (University of Oxford) On heart and liver in Chinese and Tibetan medicine: a situated history of not wanting to know… Continue reading
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History of Pre-Modern Medicine seminar series, Spring 2016
The History of Pre-Modern Medicine seminar series returns this month. The 2015–16 series – organised by a group of historians of medicine based at London universities and hosted by the Wellcome Library – will conclude with four seminars. The series… Continue reading
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Humanist self-fashioning and ordinary medical practice
The next seminar in the 2015–16 History of Pre-Modern Medicine Seminar Series takes place on Tuesday 24th November. Speaker: Professor Michael Stolberg Humanist self-fashioning and ordinary medical practice. The Bohemian physician Georg Handsch (1529–c. 1578) and his notebooks Abstract: The professional identity of… Continue reading
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Executing magic: the healing power of criminal corpses in European popular culture
The next seminar in the 2015–16 History of Pre-Modern Medicine Seminar Series takes place on Tuesday 10th November. Speaker: Professor Owen Davies Executing magic: the healing power of criminal corpses in European popular culture Abstract: The use of criminal corpses in early modern healing… Continue reading
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Women’s medicine between script and print, c. 1450–1600
The second seminar in the 2015–16 History of Pre-Modern Medicine Seminar Series takes place on Tuesday 27th October. Speaker: Dr Gabriella Zuccolin (University of Cambridge) Women’s medicine between script and print, c. 1450–1600 Abstract: By 1600 only a few gynaecological texts written in Latin… Continue reading
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A history of health? Integrating food and drink into the history of medieval medicine
The first seminar in the 2015–16 History of Pre-Modern Medicine seminar series takes place on Tuesday 13th October. Speaker: Dr Iona McCleery (University of Leeds) A history of health? Integrating food and drink into the history of medieval medicine Abstract: The… Continue reading
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History of Pre-Modern Medicine seminar series, 2015–16
The History of Pre-Modern Medicine seminar series returns this autumn. The 2015–16 series – organised by a group of historians of medicine based at London universities and hosted by the Wellcome Library – will commence with four seminars in the… Continue reading
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Polite and Polluted? Nightmen and the Selling of Sanitary Services in London, 1600-1850
The last seminar in the 2014-15 History of Pre-Modern Medicine academic seminar series, will take place on Tuesday 3 March. Speaker: Dr Mark Jenner (University of York) Polite and Polluted? Nightmen and the Selling of Sanitary Services in London c.1600-c.1850 Abstract: The Italian… Continue reading
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Approaching medieval disfigurement: a medical problem?
The next seminar in the 2014-15 History of Pre-Modern Medicine academic seminar series, will take place on Tuesday 17 February. Speaker: Dr Patricia Skinner (University of Winchester) Approaching Medieval Disfigurement: a Medical Problem? Abstract: This paper reviews the results of the… Continue reading