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

Speaker: Dr Catherine Jones (University of Aberdeen)

This talk examines the links between Benjamin Rush’s

‘The Grand Organ of Sympathy’: ‘Fashionable’ Stomach Complaints and the Mind in Georgian Britain

Speaker: Dr James Kennaway

The nerves have been the principal focus of ‘fashionable disease’ studies, but the

Mithridates He Died Old: Some Tests of Universal Remedies for Poison in the 16th Century

Speaker: Professor Iain Donaldson (Hon. Lib. RCPE; Emeritus Prof. University of Edinburgh)

In renaissance

The Heroic Anatomist: 18thc Dissection and the Stoic Ideal

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

Epidemiology and the Science of Detection, 1890-1960

Speaker: Professor Anne Hardy (University College London)

Medical Innovation in the British Empire: The Edinburgh Connection, c.1770–c.1830

Speaker: Professor Mark Harrison (University of Oxford)

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

Speaker: Dr Thomas Rütten Newcastle University

In the majority of his novels, short stories, and essays, in

Food allergy Before “allergy”

Speaker: Dr Matthew Smith (University of Strathclyde)

How were bizarre reactions to food described before the