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.

Casenotes: Irish Migration, Institutionalisation and Mental Illness

This talk explores the migratory patterns of Irish patients into and

Casenotes: How Ideas about Psychiatric Trauma Evolved in the Two World Wars

The two World Wars intensified the study of the psychological effects

Casenotes: George III And The Porphyria Myth

Considerable doubt has been cast on the claim that King George III

Casenotes: Patients’ Letters From The Royal Edinburgh Asylum

The Royal Edinburgh Asylum is fortunate in having a very rich archive

Casenotes: The Relationship Between Madness, Psychiatry And Gender

This talk explores the relationship between madness, psychiatry and

Casenotes: Victorian Skin

The body brings together a number of vexing questions: it is ‘animal

Casenotes: Thomas Mann’s Fictional Characters and Their Quest for the Patient Narrative

In the majority of his novels, short stories, and essays, in his

Casenotes: Pain and the Politics of Sympathy

Bodily suffering is central to the experience of being human, yet we