webinar
Under the Knife: Pain and Ambition in Early Modern Surgery
onlineThe 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
onlineThe 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
onlineSiân 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
onlineOur 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
onlineThe 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
onlineThe 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…
The Making of a Special Specialty: Performing Neurosurgical Expertise in the Netherlands, 1890-1990
onlineThis talk by Bart Lutters (Utrecht University) is part of the Groningen History of Medicine seminar series, which, this semester, focuses on the history of surgery. Please send an email to James Kennaway (j.g.kennaway@rug.nl) for the link.
From Body to Soul: Mental Disorders in Hildegard of Bingen’s “Cause et Cure” by Giulia Guidara
onlineThe Cause et cure of Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) is both a cosmological text and a medical handbook. This double aspect, so to speak, of the work is not surprising: in medieval Europe, human beings and nature are deeply interconnected. As the title Cause et cure suggests, most of the work focuses on the causes and natural treatment of…
Anna Margaretha Wiedemann: a Healing Woman and her Patients in Early Modern Frankfurt by Jana Schreiber
onlineIn 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
onlineIn 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
onlineThe 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,…
BSHM Webinar and Poynter Lecture: Infiltrating the Curriculum: A Historian’s Tales from the Medical Trench
onlineOn Monday 28 October 2024 the British Society for the History of Medicine (BSHM) organises a Webinar and Poynter Lecture. The 2024 BSHM Webinar will begin at 5pm (UK) with contributions from three invited speakers: Inside the Medical World of Stalin’s Gulag - Dan Healey Dan Healey is an expert on the social and cultural…