Military Medicine Episodes
Ep.14 - Past & Present - Emergency Medicine
Dec. 23, 2022
Delves into the history of emergency medicine and modern-day emergency medicine practice.
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.53 - Beverly Bergman - Military Public Health from the Crimea to World War One
March 19, 2021
Explores how the development of an understanding of the principles of public health in wartime during the late nineteenth century helped to protect troops exposed to the challenging conditions of the First World War.
Ep.46 - Tom Scotland - The Changing Management of Abdominal Wounds During the Great War
Dec. 11, 2020
Explores the experiences of surgeons and nurses during the 3rd Battle of Ypres in 1917, from casualty clearing stations positioned within 5 miles of the front line.
Ep.13 - Edgar Jones - How Ideas about Psychiatric Trauma Evolved in the Two World Wars
June 10, 2020
Explores how healthcare professionals in the UK interpreted psychosomatic disorders such as shell shock, battle exhaustion and traumatic neurasthenia, in the context of psychiatric research and the new forms of warfare.
Ep.5 - Michael Crumplin - The Bloody Fields Of Waterloo
June 10, 2020
Explores the various stages of the Battle of Waterloo (1815), highlighting particular medical issues of the campaign.
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.
Ep.2 - Stephen Craig - The Annotated Medical and Physical Observations of John Pringle
June 10, 2020
The Annotated Medical and Physical Observations of Sir John Pringle, by Dr Stephen Craig.