A history of medicine podcast based on lectures and events at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh |
This podcast presents stories from the history of medicine. Casenotes examines some of the different ways that doctors have thought about health and illness over the past two thousand years, exploring a range of eye-opening subjects and intriguing events from antiquity. The podcasts are live recordings of events which have taken place in the College. To see the slides please check the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Youtube channel.
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Physicians' Gallery at RCPE · Ep.72 - Sam Alberti - Watercolour, woodcut and wax Medical illustration around 1900
Physicians' Gallery at RCPE · Ep.70 - Ambrose Parry - The Art Of Dying And The History Of Chloroform
Physicians' Gallery at RCPE · Ep.69 - Derek Sloan - Spitting Blood - Current Approaches To Tuberculosis Treatment
Physicians' Gallery at RCPE · Ep.67 - Ciarán McCabe - Humane Societies and the International Exchange of Medical Knowledge
Physicians' Gallery at RCPE · Ep.66 - Mona O'Brien - Essential but Suspect Medical Practitioners in Nuremberg, 1495–1560
Physicians' Gallery at RCPE · Ep.64 - Iain Donaldson - Some tests of universal remedies for poison in the 16th century
Physicians' Gallery at RCPE · Ep.62 - Graham Mooney - From Casualty Room To A&E, History Of A Hospital Space
Physicians' Gallery at RCPE · Ep.61 - Peter Hobbins - Edinburgh's Forgotten Contribution To Antivenoms
Physicians' Gallery at RCPE · Ep.60 - Martin Moore - Sugar and Spikes - Historical Approaches to Diabetes Treatment
Physicians' Gallery at RCPE · Ep.58 - Glen O'Hara - ‘Inadmissable and Cruel’ Fear and Risk in Britain’s Post-War Fluoride Debate
Physicians' Gallery at RCPE · Ep.57 - Mona O’Brien - Controlling An Angry Dog - Understanding And Managing The French Disease
Physicians' Gallery at RCPE · Ep.56 - Allan Beveridge - Sir Alexander Morison and The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases
Physicians' Gallery at RCPE · Ep.55 - Alex Mold - Placing the public in public health: Public health in Britain, 1948-2010
Physicians' Gallery at RCPE · Ep.54 - Keren Hammerschlag - William Orpen: looking at bodies in medicine and art
Physicians' Gallery at RCPE · Ep.53 - Beverly Bergman - Military Public Health from the Crimea to World War One
Physicians' Gallery at RCPE · Ep.52 - John Crichton - Forensic Psychiatry From Plato to the Modern ‘Insanity’ Defence
Physicians' Gallery at RCPE · Ep.51 - Mark Strachan - Sugar and Spikes - Current Approaches to Diabetes Treatment
Physicians' Gallery at RCPE · Ep.49 - Sarah Wise - Gaslight Stories - Women In White, Eccentric Heirs, Inconvenient People
Physicians' Gallery at RCPE · Ep.48 - Ian Burney - The House Of Murder: The Emergence Of The Forensic Team
Physicians' Gallery at RCPE · Ep.47 - Anna Maerker - Gendering Artificial Anatomies: Practices and Materials
Physicians' Gallery at RCPE · Ep.46 - Tom Scotland - The Changing Management of Abdominal Wounds During the Great War
Physicians' Gallery at RCPE · Ep.45 - Noelle Gallagher - Syphilitic Noses In Eighteenth Century British Literature And Art
Physicians' Gallery at RCPE · Ep.44 - Jane Stevens - Books and Beaks: Doctors’ Fight Against the Plague in Early Modern Europe
Physicians' Gallery at RCPE · Ep.41 - Lisa Smith - Fragments from an Eighteenth-Century Family Scandal
Physicians' Gallery at RCPE · Ep.38 - John Henderson - Coping With Plague - Public Health And Epidemics
Physicians' Gallery at RCPE · Ep.36 - Chris Philo - The Wild and Tranquil Geographies of Animals and Madness
Physicians' Gallery at RCPE · Ep.34 - Kristin Hussey - William Harvey, College of Physicians and the Discovery of Circulation
Physicians' Gallery at RCPE · Ep.33 - Gavin Hardy - The Uses of Plants in Medicine in Ancient Greece and Rome
Physicians' Gallery at RCPE · Ep.31 - Katie Birkwood - John Dee: Magic, Medicine And The Tudor World
Physicians' Gallery at RCPE · Ep.28 - Samuel Cohn - ‘The great influenza’ of 1918-20: A plague of compassion
Physicians' Gallery at RCPE · Ep.27 - James Kennaway - The Piano Plague: The Medical Campaign Against Female Musical Education
Physicians' Gallery at RCPE · Ep.26 - Mark Harrison - Medical Innovation in the British Empire: The Edinburgh Connection
Physicians' Gallery at RCPE · Ep.25 - Simon Chaplin - The Heroic Anatomist: 18thc Dissection and the Stoic Ideal
Physicians' Gallery at RCPE · Ep.23 - Abigail Woods - Animals And Their Pathologists In London, 1846 - 1900
Physicians' Gallery at RCPE · Ep.22 - Helen MacDonald - After Burke And Hare: Procuring Corpses To Dissect In Scotland
Physicians' Gallery at RCPE · Ep.20 - Alan Emery - The Doctor-Patient Relationship In Art From Ancient Greece To The Present Day
Physicians' Gallery at RCPE · Ep.18 - Anne Hardy - Epidemiology and the Science of Detection, 1890-1960
Physicians' Gallery at RCPE · Ep.17 - Catherine Jones - Benjamin Rush, the Yellow Fever, and the Rise of Physician Autobiography
Physicians' Gallery at RCPE · Ep.16 - Lisa Rosner - Crime Scene Edinburgh: Forensic Science In The Era Of Burke And Hare
Physicians' Gallery at RCPE · Ep.15 - James Kennaway - Fashionable Stomach Complaints And The Mind In Georgian Britain
Physicians' Gallery at RCPE · Ep.14 - Catherine Cox - Irish Migration, Institutionalisation and Mental Illness in 19thC England
Physicians' Gallery at RCPE · Ep.13 - Edgar Jones - How Ideas about Psychiatric Trauma Evolved in the Two World Wars
Physicians' Gallery at RCPE · Ep.12 - Timothy Peters - George III And The Porphyria Myth Diagnostic Implications For James VI
Physicians' Gallery at RCPE · Ep.11 - Allan Beveridge - Voices Of The Mad: Patients’ Letters From The Royal Edinburgh Asylum
Physicians' Gallery at RCPE · Ep.10 - Gayle Davis - The Female Malady: The Relationship Between Madness, Psychiatry And Gender
Physicians' Gallery at RCPE · Ep.8 - Thomas Rutten - Thomas Mann’s Fictional Characters and Their Quest for the Patient Narrative
Physicians' Gallery at RCPE · Ep.4 - Keir Waddington - Food, Fear And Public Health In Victorian And Edwardian Britain
Physicians' Gallery at RCPE · Ep.3 - Helen King - Poems On Plagues: Thomas Sprat And The Later History Of The Plague Of Athens