Art & Literature Episodes

In this episode, Daisy, Laura and Olivia wax lyrical about some Ws in the history of medicine: witches, warts and widows. The Team: Olivia Howarth (Researcher/Presenter) is a volunteer with RCPE Heritage, a qualified archivist, heritage enthusiast and self-proclaimed lifetime nerd with an interest in medical history. (@oh_archives) Dr Charlotte Holmes (Researcher/Presenter/Editor) received her PhD in History from the University of Edinburgh in 2022 and she has been volunteering with the RCPE sin...

Dr Marisa Haetzman discusses her bestselling writing as one half of the creative duo known as Ambrose Parry.

Join us as we explore the history of medicine, from head to toe! This time: the lungs.

Delves into the history of dermatology and modern-day dermatology practice.

Dr Maureen Park uses the archive of the Royal Edinburgh Hospital to examine the reasons why, and the extent to which, drawing was promoted as a ‘therapeutic’ activity in the hospital.

Anatomy and surgery have strong extra-textual elements. The development and transmission of these crafts rely heavily on visual communication in a range of media, whether by practitioners or (other) illustrators.

Explores the role of alienation and beauty in medical photography, and the evocative questions each raised for doctors.

Authors Ambrose Parry (Dr Marisa Haetzman & Chris Brookmyre) discuss their new historical novel of medicine & murder, The Art of Dying.

William Orpen: Looking at Bodies in Medicine and Art, by Dr Keren Hammerschlag.

Drawing on the images collected in his award-winning book, Richard Barnett explores a corpus of art that is beautiful and morbid, singular and sublime.

Explores two aspects of gendering in the production and deployment of, not only the Auzoux papier-mâché anatomical models, but other contemporaneous artificial anatomies also.

Dr Noelle Gallagher explores the weird and wonderful cultural life of deformed noses in eighteenth-century British literature and art.

Prof. Chris Philo explores the ‘madness’ of both human and animals.

"What Killed Burns and What Did Not?" by Professor Emeritus David Purdie.

Doctor-Patient Relationship in Art (From Ancient Greece to the Present Day) by Prof Alan Emery.

Dr Catherine Jones examines the links between Benjamin Rush’s autobiography ‘Travels through Life’ and his protracted feud with William Cobbett.

Explores the interface between medicine and literature in Thomas Mann's work and assesses the latter’s relevance for a medical historiography that takes the individuality of the patient seriously.

"Poems on Plagues: Thomas Sprat and the Later History of the Plague of Athens", examines responses to Thucydides’ narrative of the plague of Athens.