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      • Measuring Health and the Body
      • Dante and the Sciences of the Human
      • Extreme Bodies
      • Expanding the Limits of Academic Medicine
    • Santorio Lectures
      • The Actualisation of the Ideal Human in the Works of Roger Bacon
      • “Virtus Formativa” in Albert the Great’s Embryology
      • Literature and Medical Thought in 13th-Century Italy
      • Georg J. Kamel: Natural Knowledge in Transit
    • VivaMente Conferences
      • 2023 – Fertility, Medicine and the Body
      • 2022 – From Automata to Transhumans
      • 2020 – Medicine in the Philosophy of Descartes
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      • 2021 – Latitudes of the Body
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Aristotle’s Theory of Knowledge and Hellenistic Epistemologies

In this lecture, Prof. Harari explains why the account of the principles of demonstration found in the Greek commentary tradition

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Delaying Death

This talk examines Bacon’s alchemical theories and explains how he believed that the key to extending life lay not in

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The System of Lazzaretti Reconsidered

This lecture focuses on the system of quarantine stations in the early modern Mediterranean.

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Welfare Reform and Hospital Architecture in Portugal at the Dawn of Modernity

By the end of the Middle Ages hospitals, of which there were around 19,000 throughout Europe (13th and 14th centuries),

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Some of the plants mentioned by Dioscorides are still used in modern pharmacopoeias. One such plant is the mandrake which

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Fertility, Medicine and the Body

This Vivamente Conference in the History of Ideas addresses a broad spectrum of issues to do with fertility (and infertility),

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At The Roots of 17th-Century Geology

In this talk, Nuno Castel-Branco focuses on Nicolaus Steno's geological studies and shows how the interest in fossils can be

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Surgical Thread in Early Modern Europe

Would you be comfortable with your doctor's uncertainty about whether to suture your wound with silk thread or metallic wire?

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The Ages of Man in the Kitāb al-Malakī

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