‘The great influenza’ of 1918-20: A Plague of Compassion

Speaker: Professor Samuel Cohn (University Of Glasgow)

This talk explores popular reactions to the ‘great

Crime Scene Edinburgh: Forensic Science in the Era of Burke and Hare

Speaker: Professor Lisa Rosner (Richard Stockton College, New Jersey)

 

Benjamin Rush, the Yellow Fever, and the Rise of Physician Autobiography

Speaker: Dr Catherine Jones (University of Aberdeen)

This talk examines the links between Benjamin Rush’s

‘The Grand Organ of Sympathy’: ‘Fashionable’ Stomach Complaints and the Mind in Georgian Britain

Speaker: Dr James Kennaway

The nerves have been the principal focus of ‘fashionable disease’ studies, but the

Mithridates He Died Old: Some Tests of Universal Remedies for Poison in the 16th Century

Speaker: Professor Iain Donaldson (Hon. Lib. RCPE; Emeritus Prof. University of Edinburgh)

In renaissance

The Heroic Anatomist: 18thc Dissection and the Stoic Ideal

Speaker: Simon Chaplin (Royal College of Surgeons of England)

Epidemiology and the Science of Detection, 1890-1960

Speaker: Professor Anne Hardy (University College London)

Medical Innovation in the British Empire: The Edinburgh Connection, c.1770–c.1830

Speaker: Professor Mark Harrison (University of Oxford)