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: ‘The great influenza’ of 1918-20

This talk explores popular reactions to the ‘great influenza’ of 1918

Casenotes: The Piano Plague: The Medical Campaign Against Female Musical Education

Although playing the piano was often seen as a thoroughly respectable

Casenotes: Medical Innovation in the British Empire: The Edinburgh Connection

Speaker: Professor Mark Harrison (University of Oxford)

Casenotes: 18thc Dissection and the Stoic Ideal

Speaker: Simon Chaplin (Royal College of Surgeons of England)

Casenotes: What Killed Burns And What Did Not?

The poet and songwriter Robert Burns died in 1796, aged 37. There was

Casenotes: Animals And Their Pathologists In London

This talk uses the records of the Pathological Society of London, a

Casenotes: After Burke And Hare: Procuring Corpses To Dissect In Scotland

Grave-robbing and the Burke and Hare murders have become anatomy’s

Casenotes: The Age of Stress: Myth or Reality?

Since the late nineteenth century, stress has emerged as a popular