Medicine Ancient and Modern
Description
Modern medicine really is very…modern. Most current practices and their theoretical underpinnings would have been largely unrecognizable two centuries ago, when doctors still practiced in the shadows cast by their Greco-Roman predecessors. But for all that, there are some surprising continuities between modern and ancient medicine. In this lecture, eminent philosopher and historian of science Dr. R.J. Hankinson will sketch both the continuities and (often entertaining discontinuities, between ancient Greco-Roman medical traditions and the practices that underpin modern medicine.
Medicine Ancient and Modern
Killeen Chair Lecture Series, St. Norbert College
Modern medicine really is very…modern. Most current practices and their theoretical underpinnings would have been largely unrecognizable two centuries ago, when doctors still practiced in the shadows cast by their Greco-Roman predecessors. But for all that, there are some surprising continuities between modern and ancient medicine. In this lecture, eminent philosopher and historian of science Dr. R.J. Hankinson will sketch both the continuities and (often entertaining discontinuities, between ancient Greco-Roman medical traditions and the practices that underpin modern medicine.
