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Under the Knife: Pain and Ambition in Early Modern Surgery

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The Groningen Centre for Health and Humanities and the Centre for Historical Studies are hosting a seminar series on the history of surgery. All seminars are 16:00-17:00 Dutch time. Online sessions are hosted on Google Meet. Please send an e-mail to James Kennaway (James.kennaway@rug.nl) to receive the link. Alanna Skuse, University of Reading, “Under the…

The speculum paradox: A history of medicine, morality and menopause

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The Kolloquium des Instituts für Geschichte, Theorie und Ethik der Medizin at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf will host two webinars in collaboration with the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health. 29 November 2023, 12.30-14: Ericka Johnson, Linköping: The cultural biography of the prostate. MS Teams https://bit.ly/45FJzhp 31 January 2024, 12.30-14: Rina Knoeff, Groningen: The speculum…

Children’s experiences of the first children’s wards in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century England

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Siân Pooley, from the Centre for the History of Childhood at Oxford University, delves into her research into children’s experiences of early children’s wards. While previous generations had been denied access to hospital, or occasionally treated on adult wards, find out what young people in the first children’s hospitals thought about their experiences of care.…

Sharing Stories from the Archive: The History of Children’s Nursing

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Our exhibition was co-curated by a team of volunteers, many of whom are or were children and young people’s nurses. Hear from some of the team about the fascinating stories they uncovered – on mental health, hospital visiting, hospital history, nurse education and children’s rights – alongside their personal recollections of caring for, and learning…

‘Against Human Vivisection’ – Criticism of Surgery in Britain, the US, and Germany, 1880s-1914

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The Groningen Centre for Health and Humanities and the Centre for Historical Studies are hosting a seminar series on the history of surgery. All seminars are 16:00-17:00 Dutch time. Online sessions are hosted on Google Meet. Please send an e-mail to James Kennaway (James.kennaway@rug.nl) to receive the link. Thomas Schlich, McGill University, “'Against Human Vivisection’…

‘English Flesh bears Operations better than French Flesh’: Resilience, Degeneration and Race in Crimean War Surgery

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The Groningen Centre for Health and Humanities and the Centre for Historical Studies are hosting a seminar series on the history of surgery. All seminars are 16:00-17:00 Dutch time. Online sessions are hosted on Google Meet. Please send an e-mail to James Kennaway (James.kennaway@rug.nl) to receive the link. James Kennaway, University of Groningen, “‘English Flesh…

Anna Margaretha Wiedemann: a Healing Woman and her Patients in Early Modern Frankfurt by Jana Schreiber

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In 1670, a conflict between Frankfurt surgeons and the healer Anna Margaretha Wiedemann broke out. The surviving sources offer deep insights into the practice of women healers in the early modern period, who treated their patients, competing with male doctors and barbers. In addition to statements by Wiedemann and the surgeons, there are numerous testimonies…

Cesalpino and Aristotelian Science. The Transformation of Medical Botany in the 16th Century by Quentin Hiernaux & Corentin Tresnie

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In 1583 the Italian botanist and physician Andrea Cesalpino (1524–1603) published De Plantis Libri XVI, considered to be the first treatise where botany is treated independently from medicine. In so doing, he broke with a long tradition inherited in Western science from Antiquity and perpetuated during the Middle Ages through the early Renaissance. At the…

Female Seeds, Powers, and Bodies: Albert the Great and the Vegetal Sexuality by Amalia Cerrito

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The 13th-century Dominican master Albert the Great extensively discusses vegetal sexuality. While animals reproduce through the mating of female and male individuals, plants lack a sexual distinction, reproducing through seeds that contain all necessary conditions for plant generation. Furthermore, the primary paternal and maternal functions, such as fertilization, generative material provision, and nourishment during development,…