Food & Diet Episodes
Ep.13 - Past & Present - Pharmacy
Dec. 9, 2022
Delves into the history of pharmacology and therapeutics and modern-day pharmaceutical medicine practice.
Ep.9 - Past & Present - Gastroenterology
Oct. 14, 2022
Delves into the history of gastroenterology and modern-day gastroenterology practice.
Ep.1 - Past & Present - Diabetes
June 24, 2022
Delves into the history of diabetes care and modern-day diabetes research and management.
Ep.84 - Ally Zlatar - The Starving Artist
May 27, 2022
Ally Zlatar uncovers the history of medical recipes and the historical relationship between food and medicine.
Ep.83 - Charlotte Holmes - Early Modern Scottish Recipe Books
May 13, 2022
Charlotte Holmes uncovers the history of medical recipes and the historical relationship between food and medicine.
Ep.73 - Charlotte Holmes - Medical Recipes And Overindulgence
Dec. 24, 2021
Charlotte Holmes examines the history of early recipe books and their use to treat a wide range of complaints.
Ep.60 - Martin Moore - Sugar and Spikes - Historical Approaches to Diabetes Treatment
June 25, 2021
Dr Martin Moore explores how medical thought, patient experience and everyday practice of self-management of diabetes were influenced by broader structures in British politics, culture, and society.
Ep.51 - Mark Strachan - Sugar and Spikes - Current Approaches to Diabetes Treatment
Feb. 19, 2021
Dr Mark Strachan discusses the latest, cutting-edge research currently being undertaken in Edinburgh.
Ep.29 - Matthew Smith - Food allergy before “allergy”
June 10, 2020
How were bizarre reactions to food described before the coining of the term ‘allergy’ in 1906? Dr Matthew Smith explains.
Ep.15 - James Kennaway - Fashionable Stomach Complaints and the Mind in Georgian Britain
June 10, 2020
Examines the development of thinking on the mind-stomach nexus, and how such thinking was incorporated into critiques of modern Britain.
Ep.4 - Keir Waddington - Food, Fear And Public Health In Victorian And Edwardian Britain
June 10, 2020
Combines history of science, food and culture and applies these to Anglo-German relations and perceptions by examining how between 1850-1914 the German sausage was used as a metaphor for the German nation.