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.

The podcast is available to download on Spotify, iTunes, Podbean and Soundcloud.

In this talk Dr Claire Jones explores the writing of birth control advocate Marie Stopes before the Second World War

In this talk Dr Camilla Mørk Røstvik presents the sanitary bin in its historical context for the first time, and

In this talk Dr Dan O'Brien discusses the history of funerals and coffins.

This lecture explores some famous historical body parts, through the eyes of author Suzie Edge.

In this talk Dr Jessica Sharkey considers why Henry VIII is buried in relative obscurity, why Edward VI was cast as

In this talk Professor Jonathan Reinarz explores the history of burn scars over the last two centuries.

In this talk Prof Seamus O'Mahony, a member of the Lancet Commission on The Value of Death, explores the idea of a '

This lecture explores Roald Dahl and his interest in medicine through the eyes of his doctor and friend, Professor