Edinburgh Episodes
Ep.82 - Iain Milne - Physicians, Plants And Poisons
April 29, 2022
Explores botany and medicine in Edinburgh since the 16th Century.
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.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.61 - Peter Hobbins - Edinburgh's Forgotten Contribution To Antivenoms
July 9, 2021
Reveals how a President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh collaborated with a former student in the colony of Queensland to develop the theory and practice of applied immunology.
Ep.40 - Janet Philp - Burke, Now and Then
Sept. 18, 2020
Janet Philp explores the history around the tale of Edinburgh’s infamous body-snatchers Burke and Hare, and Dr. Knox, the recipient of their shady undertakings.
Ep.32 - Martin Willis - Medical Tourism in Victorian Edinburgh
June 10, 2020
Focuses on an under-represented area of medical history: the depiction of places of medicine in 19th-century travel guides.
Ep.26 - Mark Harrison - Medical Innovation in the British Empire: The Edinburgh Connection
June 10, 2020
Medical Innovation in the British Empire: The Edinburgh Connection, by Professor Mark Harrison.
Ep.16 - Lisa Rosner - Crime Scene Edinburgh: Forensic Science In The Era Of Burke And Hare
June 10, 2020
Prof. Lisa Rosner takes a CSI-style approach to discuss the notorious murders carried out by Burke and Hare, who supplied bodies for dissection at Edinburgh's medical school.
Ep.11 - Allan Beveridge - Voices Of The Mad: Patients’ Letters From The Royal Edinburgh Asylum
June 10, 2020
Drawing on over a thousand patient letters, this examines the lives of inmates at the Royal Edinburgh Asylum when the renowned psychiatrist Thomas Clouston was Superintendent.