Hardin Library for the Health Sciences and the University of Iowa History of Medicine Society invite you to a lecture by Elizabeth Yale, PhD, History of Science, Harvard University.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, UI Center for the Book
Bring out Your Dead (Papers)! Early Modern Medical Practitioners as Archivists and Collectors
Thursday, September 28
5:30-6:30pm
401 Hardin Library for the Health Sciences
Early modern physicians built their libraries as dynamic, interactive information resources. They constructed their collections over many years, buying and inheriting books old and new. Alongside their books, they generated and passed on valuable caches of written records, including correspondence and medical casebooks.
This talk considers physicians as collectors of books and papers: what can their use of these materials tell us not only about their medical practices, but also their varied pursuits as naturalists, editors and authors, scientific reformers, and museum founders.
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