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Grief and the Pandemic: Resisting the Epidemiological Turn

Event Date:

Wed, 04/05/2022

Join us as Prof Michael Cholbi explores the medical and emotional understanding of grief in times of global pandemic. Many experts have started to refer to the onslaught of grief unleashed in the pandemic in medical or...

FOOD: Recipe or Remedy Exhibition Launch

Event Date:

Wed, 27/04/2022

This event celebrates the launch of our exhibition, ' FOOD: Recipe or Remedy '. The event will begin at 6pm in our foyer with a wine reception. Then, from 6.30pm - 7.30pm, you will have the opportunity to hear two...

Ancientbiotics: Medieval Medicines for Modern Infections

Event Date:

Wed, 01/12/2021

Speaker: Dr Erin Connelly, University of Warwick Medieval manuscripts contain numerous remedies for the treatment of microbial infections, and these often involve complex preparations of medicinal plants and multiple...

Christmas Charity Lecture: Growing up ape: the long-term science of studying our closest living relatives

Event Date:

Tue, 07/12/2021

Live Stream Join Webinar* *Starts at 19:00. Please refer to your email for access information - do check which email you registered with, and your junk/spam folder if you can't find it. Speaker: Professor Elizabeth...

Dr Thomas Brown: Inventor of the Emotions

Event Date:

Wed, 17/11/2021

This event will entirely take place online. Speaker: Prof Thomas Dixon, Queen Mary University of London The Edinburgh physician and Professor of Moral Philosophy, Dr Thomas Brown (1778-1820), is little known today, and...

Clinical Observations in Public Spaces in the Long-Nineteenth Century

Event Date:

Wed, 27/10/2021

This event will entirely take place online. Speaker: Professor Brian Hurwitz - King's College London It is often assumed that clinical observations in the long nineteenth-century arose from hospital receiving rooms and...

Collecting Infection: Capturing COVID-19 for the future

Event Date:

Wed, 29/09/2021

This event will entirely take place online. Speaker: Natasha McEnroe, Keeper of Medicine, Science Museum Curators of the history of medicine are now facing one of the greatest challenges of their careers – how to...

‘The bloody proofs I had prepared of his victorious violence’: Counterfeiting the Loss of Virginity in Early Modern England

Event Date:

Wed, 28/07/2021

This event will entirely take place online. In this talk, Dr Stephanie Allen will examine an element of female sexual fraud; counterfeit maidenheads. She will discuss the methods authors imagined women to use, including...

Caring for the Poor in the Highlands: The Role of the GP

Event Date:

Wed, 12/05/2021

This event will entirely take place online. It will be live streamed and also available to view after the event. In 1845 the new Scottish Poor Law established a funded medical service for the registered poor. By 1852...

Intensive Care with Dr Gavin Francis

Event Date:

Wed, 28/04/2021

This event will entirely take place online. It will be live streamed and also available to view after the event. Join us at this live Q&A with GP Gavin Francis, who will explore the experiences of treating patients...

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Grief and the Pandemic: Resisting the Epidemiological Turn

FOOD: Recipe or Remedy Exhibition Launch

Ancientbiotics: Medieval Medicines for Modern Infections

Christmas Charity Lecture: Growing up ape: the long-term science of studying our closest living relatives

Dr Thomas Brown: Inventor of the Emotions

Clinical Observations in Public Spaces in the Long-Nineteenth Century

Collecting Infection: Capturing COVID-19 for the future

‘The bloody proofs I had prepared of his victorious violence’: Counterfeiting the Loss of Virginity in Early Modern England

Caring for the Poor in the Highlands: The Role of the GP

Intensive Care with Dr Gavin Francis