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The Shaping of Psychosomatics in the Latin West
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“Virtus Formativa” in Albert the Great’s Embryology
Literature and Medical Thought in 13th-Century Italy
Georg J. Kamel: Natural Knowledge in Transit
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2022 – From Automata to Transhumans
2020 – Medicine in the Philosophy of Descartes
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The centre
History
Nature, Mission and Organisation
Domus Comeliana
Funding Institutions
Yale University
University of Exeter
University of Würzburg
University of Parma
Studio Firmano
Sponsors
Collaborations
Contact us
Community
Governing Board
Ordinary Fellows
Associate Fellows
Artists in Residence
Linda Karshan
Events
Events Calendar
Online Lectures Series
Upcoming
Galen on Contagion and Material Imagination
Risks and Benefits of Ice-Cold Drinks
Demons, Imagination and Mental Illness
Previous
Conferences and Webinars
Healing Powers
Past Conferences
Santorio Lectures
The Shaping of Psychosomatics in the Latin West
Knowledge, Experiment, and Practical Advice
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
2024 – Narratio in Medicine and the Law
2023 – Fertility, Medicine and the Body
2022 – From Automata to Transhumans
2020 – Medicine in the Philosophy of Descartes
Summer Schools
2023 – Intensity and the Grades of Nature
2021 – Latitudes of the Body
2019 – The Kiln, The Alembic, and the Clockwork
Winter Schools
2024 Studiolo Digital Lab
Exhibitions
The Universe on Paper
Research Grants
Comèl Grant
Comèl Grantees
Research Development Grant
Research Development Grantees
VivaMente Grant
VivaMente Grantees
Santorio Award
Santorio Awardees
Honourable Mentions
Santorio Fellowship
Santorio Fellows
Santorio Global Fellowship
Santorio Global Fellows
Publications
Palgrave Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine (PSMEMM)
Volumes Published
Publish With Us
Sudhoffs Archiv – Journal for the History of Science and Medicine
Recent Issues
Blog
News
CSMBR Chronicles
Arbor Newsletter
Participants’ Experience
Summer School Experience 2023
Summer School Experience 2021
Summer School Experience 2019
Multimedia
Discover the CSMBR
Interviews
Educationals
Photo Gallery
VivaMente 2024
Healing Powers 2024
Summer School 2023
VivaMente 2023
The Universe on Paper 2022
Santorio Award 2022
VivaMente 2022
Summer School 2019
Santorio Fellowship 2019
Santorio Fellowship 2017
Santorio Conference 2017
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Governing Board
Vivian Nutton
President
is an Emeritus Professor of the History of Medicine at UCL and at the First Moscow State Medical University. A Fellow of the
British
British Academy and the German Academy of Science, Nutton has written extensively on all aspects of the history of medicine.
Jonathan Barry
Vice President
is an Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Exeter and a Guest Professor at LMU in Munich. He is the co-editor of the
series
series Palgrave Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine (PSMEMM) and co-founder of the Centre for Medical History at Exeter.
Fabrizio Bigotti
Director
is an Intellectual historian working on the cross-disciplinary links between the history of science, medicine, technology, and
philosophy
philosophy. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Würzburg as well as Honorary Fellow at the University of Exeter.
Michael Stolberg
Vice Director
A physician and historian by training, Michael
Stolberg
is chair of the history of medicine at the University of Würzburg, Germany. He has
published
published widely on learned medical theory and practice, the patient experience, and the body in early modern Europe.
Fabiola Zurlini
Vice Director
is a historian of medical education currently Vice-Director of the CSMBR and Director in Chief of the Studio Firmano (Marche).
Her
research
Her research covers aspects of early modern book history, medical bibliography and medicine at the court of Christina of Sweden.
Delegates of Funding Institutions
Ivano Dal Prete
Yale
University
Is a Senior Lecturer in History and Director of the Undergraduate Studies in History of Medicine and Science at the University of
Yale
Yale. His work focuses on the early history of the Earth sciences (ca. 1200 – 1800) including the material and visual culture of astronomy.
Luana Salvarani
University of Parma
is a Full Professor of History of Education at the University of Parma. Her research focuses on the 16th and 17th centuries,
especially
especially on the Protestant Reformation,
the Jesuits, and the intersections between the history of medicine and education.
Alun Withey
University of Exeter
is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Exeter. As an expert in early modern medical history, his research interests include domestic
hun
and especially medical remedy collections, gender and the sick role, and the lived experience of sickness in early modern Britain.
International Strategy and Coordination
Tomaso Maria Pedrotti Dell’Acqua
Institutio Santoriana Fondazione
Comèl
Budget Administration
Andreas Hylla
University of Würzburg
Coordination