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Physicians' Gallery Podcast

A history of medicine podcast based on lectures and events at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

The podcast is available to download on Spotify, iTunes, Podbean and Soundcloud.

Quill

Ambrose Parry

cat

Human and Animal Health

Quill

Marie Stopes

red womb

A History of Menstruation

Skull

The Coffin

Cardiology

Vital Organs

Crown

Death of Kings

Dermatology

Reflections on Burn Scars

Palliative Care

What is a Good Death?

Pharmacy

Roald Dahl's Marvellous Medicine

Dermatology

From Spots to Pox

Hands

Health and Disability in Convict Sydney

Food

Food, Drink and the Maintenance of Health

Condom

History of Condoms

Dermatology

An Untold History of Tattooing

Geriatrics

Grief and the Pandemic

art

The Starving Artist

Food

Early Modern Scottish Recipe Books

plant

Physicians, Plants and Poisons

Skull

Thomas Brown - Inventor of the Emotions

Public Health

Collecting COVID for the Future

art

Patient Art at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital

Test tube

The History of Clinical Trials

Palliative Care

Cultural Biography of Prostate

Condom

Counterfeiting the Loss of Virginity

Emergency Medicine

Intensive Care

Palliative Care

Caring for the Poor in the Highlands

Food

Medical Recipes and Overindulgence

art

Watercolour, Woodcut and Wax Medical Illustration Around 1900

camera

Alienation and Beauty in Medical Photography

art

The Art of Dying and the History Of Chloroform

Respiratory

Current Approaches to Tuberculosis Treatment

Emergency Medicine

The Rise and Fall of the Liverpool Care Pathway

forensic

Humane Societies and the International Exchange of Medical Knowledge

Skull

Essential but Suspect Medical Practitioners in Nuremberg, 1495–1560

DNA

The Mütter Research Institute

poison

Some Tests of Universal Remedies for Poison in the 16th Century

Condom

Men's Sexual Health In Early Modern England

Emergency Medicine

From Casualty Room to A&E, History of a Hospital Space

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Edinburgh's Forgotten Contribution to Antivenoms

syringe

Historical Approaches to Diabetes Treatment

Armpit

Vesalius and the Canon of the Human Body

Teeth

‘Inadmissable and Cruel’ Fear and Risk in Britain’s Post-War Fluoride Debate

Skull

Controlling an Angry Dog - Understanding and Managing the French Disease

Neurology

Sir Alexander Morison and the Physiognomy of Mental Diseases

Public Health

Public Health in Britain, 1948-2010

art

William Orpen: Looking at Bodies in Medicine and Art

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Military Public Health from the Crimea to World War One

forensic

Forensic Psychiatry From Plato to the Modern ‘Insanity’ Defence

syringe

Current Approaches to Diabetes Treatment

Armpit

The Theatre of Anatomy

mental health

Gaslight Stories - Women in White, Eccentric Heirs, Inconvenient People

forensic

The Emergence of the Forensic Team

Armpit

Gendering Artificial Anatomies: Practices and Materials

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The Changing Management of Abdominal Wounds During the Great War

art

Syphilitic Noses in Eighteenth Century British Literature and Art

Infectious Diseases

Doctors’ Fight Against the Plague in Early Modern Europe

Condom

Syphilis in the 21st Century

Armpit

An Urge to Correct: Andreas Vesalius Revised

Quill

Fragments from an Eighteenth-Century Family Scandal

forensic

Burke, Now and Then

Hands

Prosthetics: From Maker to User

Infectious Diseases

Coping With Plague - Public Health and Epidemics

Pharmacy

Substance Abuse: Past and Present

cat

The Wild and Tranquil Geographies of Animals and Madness

DNA

Looking to the Past to Improve Our Future

Cardiology

William Harvey, College of Physicians and the Discovery of Circulation

plant

The Uses of Plants in Medicine in Ancient Greece and Rome

Palliative Care

Medical Tourism in Victorian Edinburgh

magic

John Dee: Magic, Medicine and the Tudor World

Pharmacy

Knowing and Selling Exotic Drugs in Paris

Food

Food Allergy Before “allergy”

Infectious Diseases

‘The great influenza’ of 1918-20

music

The Piano Plague

x rays

Medical Innovation in the British Empire: The Edinburgh Connection

Armpit

18thc Dissection and the Stoic Ideal

forensic

What Killed Burns and What Did Not?

cat

Animals and their Pathologists in London

x rays

After Burke and Hare: Procuring Corpses to Dissect in Scotland

mental health

The Age of Stress: Myth or Reality?

art

The Doctor-Patient Relationship in Art from Ancient Greece to the Present Day

Test tube

The Evolution of Controlled Trials

forensic

Epidemiology and the Science of Detection

Infectious Diseases

Benjamin Rush, the Yellow Fever, and the Rise of Physician Autobiography

forensic

Forensic Science in the Era of Burke and Hare

Neurology

Fashionable Stomach Complaints and the Mind in Georgian Britain

mental health

Irish Migration, Institutionalisation and Mental Illness

Psychiatry

How Ideas about Psychiatric Trauma Evolved in the Two World Wars

Crown

George III and the Porphyria Myth

Quill

Patients’ Letters from the Royal Edinburgh Asylum

mental health

The Relationship Between Madness, Psychiatry and Gender

Dermatology

Victorian Skin

Quill

Thomas Mann’s Fictional Characters and Their Quest for the Patient Narrative

Geriatrics

Pain and the Politics of Sympathy

Quill

The Strange History of Aristotle's Masterpiece

Bullet

The Bloody Fields of Waterloo

Public Health

Food, Fear and Public Health in Victorian and Edwardian Britain

Infectious Diseases

Poems on Plagues

Quill

The Observations of John Pringle

Skull

The History of Forensic Anthropology

podcast

Introduction

Victorian doctor writing with scalpel

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