Narratio in Medicine and the Law
This VivaMente Conference investigates the relationship between narrative, rhetorical persausion, and factual evidence in medical and medico-legal case-histories.
This VivaMente Conference investigates the relationship between narrative, rhetorical persausion, and factual evidence in medical and medico-legal case-histories.
This series explores women's contributions to various medically relevant fields and practices such as natural philosophy, household remedies, plant manipulation
This event honours the late Prof. Giuseppe Ongaro (1936-2023) with a one-day conference dedicated to exploring his multifaceted legacy in
This lecture explores a variety of little know sources on the Neapolitian plague of 1656, offering new documents and perspectives
This talk examines several late sixteenth-century anatomical works that adopted either the terms and or methods of analysis and synthesis.
In this lecture, I will discuss the "confit d’en cases" or "confectio infantium", a remedy for breastfed infants with colic,
This lecture explores how the various solutions offered to the problem of reaction became closer and closer to the modern
In this lecture Ian Maclean explores Girolamo Cardano's late philosophy, examining his diverse works in mathematics, astrology, and medicine, and
This paper explores al-Farghānī’s "Elements of Astronomy", a pioneering work in theoretical astronomy which widely adopts Galenic language and theories.
This lecture will analyse the various types of causation that were involved in the therapeutic use of antidotes