A History of Medicine Podcast based on lectures and events at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
This podcast, ‘Casenotes', is for anyone interested in the medical humanities and history. It examines some of the different ways that doctors have thought about health and illness over the past two thousand years and raises general insights about the origins of modern scientific medicine, the role of medicine in society, and the extent and limits of scientific thinking through the ages. 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.
The podcast is available to download on Itunes, Podbean, Stitcher and via its rss feed. 
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Podcast Episodes
The podcasts will be uploaded every two weeks.
Introduction to the Casenotes history of medicine podcast
Ep.1 - Sue Black - The History of Forensic Anthropology
Ep.2 - Stephen Craig - Sir John Pringle - Preserving What is Most Useful
Ep.3 - Helen King - Thomas Sprat and the Later History of the Plague of Athens
Ep.4 - Keir Waddington - Fear and public health in Victorian and Edwardian Britain
Ep.5 - Michael Crumplin - Medical Support for Wellington’s Greatest Victory
Ep.6 - Mary Fissell - The Strange History of Aristotle's Masterpiece
Ep.7 - Joanna Bourke - Pain and the Politics of Sympathy
Ep.8 - Thomas Rutten - Thomas Mann's Fictional Characters
Ep.9 - Pamela Gilbert - Victorian Skin
Ep.10 - Gayle Davis - The Female Malady
Ep.11 - Allan Beveridge - Voices of the Mad
Ep.12 - Timothy Peters - George III Diagnostic Myths
Ep.13 - Edgar Jones - Wartime Psychiatric Trauma
Ep.14 - Catherine Cox - Irish Migration and Mental Illness
Ep.15 - James Kennaway - Fashionable Stomach Complaints
Ep.16 - Lisa Rosner - Forensic Science + Burke and Hare
Ep.17 - Catherine Jones - Benjamin Rush, Yellow Fever
Ep.18 - Anne Hardy - Epidemiology and the Science of Detection
Ep.19 - Iain Chalmers - The Evolution of Controlled Trials