Episodes

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.

Explores the various stages of the Battle of Waterloo (1815), highlighting particular medical issues of the campaign.

Something Borrowed, Something Blue: The Strange History of Aristotle's Masterpiece, by Prof. Mary Fissell.

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.

"Poems on Plagues: Thomas Sprat and the Later History of the Plague of Athens", examines responses to Thucydides’ narrative of the plague of Athens.

Charts the history of forensic anthropology in the UK and illustrate its constant links back to so many aspects of applied anatomy.

The Annotated Medical and Physical Observations of Sir John Pringle, by Dr Stephen Craig.

Introduction to the Casenotes podcast.