Art & Literature Episodes
Ep.19 - Past & Present - Dermatology
March 3, 2023
Delves into the history of dermatology and modern-day dermatology practice.
Ep.79 - Maureen Park - Patient art at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital
March 18, 2022
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.
Ep.72 - Sam Alberti - Watercolour, woodcut and wax - Medical illustration around 1900
Dec. 10, 2021
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.
Ep.71 - Lauren Barnett - Alienation and Beauty in Medical Photography
Nov. 26, 2021
Explores the role of alienation and beauty in medical photography, and the evocative questions each raised for doctors.
Ep.70 - Ambrose Parry - The Art Of Dying And The History Of Chloroform
Nov. 12, 2021
Authors Ambrose Parry (Dr Marisa Haetzman & Chris Brookmyre) discuss their new historical novel of medicine & murder, The Art of Dying.
Ep.54 - Keren Hammerschlag - William Orpen: looking at bodies in medicine and art
April 2, 2021
William Orpen: Looking at Bodies in Medicine and Art, by Dr Keren Hammerschlag.
Ep.50 - Richard Barnett - The Theatre of Anatomy
Feb. 5, 2021
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.
Ep.47 - Anna Maerker - Gendering Artificial Anatomies: Practices and Materials
Dec. 25, 2020
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.
Ep.45 - Noelle Gallagher - Syphilitic Noses In Eighteenth Century British Literature And Art
Nov. 27, 2020
Dr Noelle Gallagher explores the weird and wonderful cultural life of deformed noses in eighteenth-century British literature and art.
Ep.36 - Chris Philo - The Wild and Tranquil Geographies of Animals and Madness
July 24, 2020
Prof. Chris Philo explores the ‘madness’ of both human and animals.
Ep.24 - David Purdie - What Killed Burns And What Did Not?
June 10, 2020
"What Killed Burns and What Did Not?" by Professor Emeritus David Purdie.
Ep.20 - Alan Emery - Doctor-Patient Relationship in Art (From Ancient Greece to the Present Day)
June 10, 2020
Doctor-Patient Relationship in Art (From Ancient Greece to the Present Day) by Prof Alan Emery.
Ep.17 - Catherine Jones - Benjamin Rush, the Yellow Fever, and the Rise of Physician Autobiography
June 10, 2020
Dr Catherine Jones examines the links between Benjamin Rush’s autobiography ‘Travels through Life’ and his protracted feud with William Cobbett.
Ep.8 - Thomas Rütten - Thomas Mann’s Fictional Characters and Their Quest for the Patient Narrative
June 10, 2020
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.
Ep.3 - Helen King - Poems On Plagues: Thomas Sprat And The Later History Of The Plague Of Athens
June 10, 2020
"Poems on Plagues: Thomas Sprat and the Later History of the Plague of Athens", examines responses to Thucydides’ narrative of the plague of Athens.