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

 

This podcast presents stories from the history of medicine. We examine some of the different ways that doctors have thought about health and illness over the past two thousand years, exploring a range of eye-opening subjects and intriguing events from antiquity. The podcasts are live recordings of events which have taken place in the College. To see the slides please check the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Youtube channel.

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

Casenotes: Historical Approaches to Diabetes Treatment

During the last 100 years, the treatment of diabetes mellitus in Britain underwent radical transformation. One of

Casenotes: Vesalius And The Canon Of The Human Body

Andreas Vesalius’ De humani corporis fabrica (1543) is a landmark

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

After WWII, British doctors and politicians thought that they could

Casenotes: Controlling An Angry Dog - Understanding And Managing The French Disease

In the 1600s Peter Sartorius, a citizen and surgeon of Strasbourg,

Casenotes: Sir Alexander Morison and The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases

In this talk Dr Allan Beveridge discusses the nineteenth centry

Casenotes: Placing the public in public health: Public health in Britain, 1948-2010

The place of the public within public health is a critical issue for

Casenotes: William Orpen: looking at bodies in medicine and art

William Orpen (1878-1931) produced numerous pictures of doctors and

Casenotes: Military Public Health from the Crimea to World War One

The military success of a fighting force depends in large part on the