Episodes

Oct. 14, 2022

Ep.9 - Past & Present - Gastroenterology

Delves into the history of gastroenterology and modern-day gastroenterology practice.
Sept. 30, 2022

Ep.8 - Past & Present - Psychiatry

Delves into the history of psychiatry and modern-day psychiatry practice.
Sept. 16, 2022

Ep.7 - Past & Present - Public Health

Delves into the history of public health and modern-day public health practice.
Sept. 2, 2022

Ep.6 - Past & Present - Renal

Delves into the history of renal medicine and modern-day renal medicine practice.
Aug. 19, 2022

Ep.5 - Past & Present - Genito - Urinary

Delves into the history of genito-urinary medicine (GUM) and modern-day GUM practice.
Aug. 5, 2022

Ep.4 - Past & Present - Geriatrics

Delves into the history of geriatric medicine and modern-day geriatric medicine practice.
July 22, 2022

Ep.3 - Past & Present - Rheumatology

Delves into the history of rheumatology and modern-day rheumatology practice.
July 8, 2022

Ep.2 - Past & Present - Palliative Care

Delves into the history of palliative care and modern-day palliative care practice.
June 24, 2022

Ep.1 - Past & Present - Diabetes

Delves into the history of diabetes care and modern-day diabetes research and management.
June 10, 2022

Ep.85 - Michael Cholbi - Grief And The Pandemic

Prof Michael Cholbi explores the medical and emotional understanding of grief in times of global pandemic.
May 27, 2022

Ep.84 - Ally Zlatar - The Starving Artist

Ally Zlatar uncovers the history of medical recipes and the historical relationship between food and medicine.
May 13, 2022

Ep.83 - Charlotte Holmes - Early Modern Scottish Recipe Books

Charlotte Holmes uncovers the history of medical recipes and the historical relationship between food and medicine.
April 29, 2022

Ep.82 - Iain Milne - Physicians, Plants And Poisons

Explores botany and medicine in Edinburgh since the 16th Century.
April 15, 2022

Ep.81 - Thomas Dixon - Thomas Brown - Inventor Of The Emotions

Dr Thomas Brown - considered to have been the “inventor of the emotions”.
April 1, 2022

Ep.80 - Natasha McEnroe - Collecting COVID For The Future

Natasha McEnroe explores how both presences and absences in the museum record can shed light on the challenges and dynamics of collecting around pandemic and infectious diseases.
March 18, 2022

Ep.79 - Maureen Park - Patient art at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital

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.
March 4, 2022

Ep.78 - Iain Milne - The History Of Clinical Trials And James Lind

Iain Milne discusses some key figures from the history of medicine and clinical trials, including James Lind.
Feb. 18, 2022

Ep.77 - Ericka Johnson - Cultural Biography Of Prostate

Ericka Johnson discusses what we think the prostate is and what we use the prostate to think about, examining it in historical, cultural, social, and medical contexts.
Feb. 4, 2022

Ep.76 - Stephanie Allen - Counterfeiting the Loss of Virginity

Dr Stephanie Allen examines an element of female sexual fraud; counterfeit maidenheads.
Jan. 21, 2022

Ep.75 - Gavin Francis - Intensive Care

Dr Gavin Francis discusses his experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic in Edinburgh and the islands of Orkney, and its impact on intensive care.
Jan. 7, 2022

Ep.74 - Patricia Whatley - Caring For The Poor In The Highlands

Dr Patricia Whatley discusses the changing issues relating to the work of the GP in the second half of the 19th century in the remote and isolated regions of the Highlands.
Dec. 24, 2021

Ep.73 - Charlotte Holmes - Medical Recipes And Overindulgence

Charlotte Holmes examines the history of early recipe books and their use to treat a wide range of complaints.
Dec. 10, 2021

Ep.72 - Sam Alberti - Watercolour, woodcut and wax - Medical illustration around 1900

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.
Nov. 26, 2021

Ep.71 - Lauren Barnett - Alienation and Beauty in Medical Photography

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