History Research Seminar - Charlotte White
Armstrong Building, room 1.05
From Medieval Morality to Modern Medicine: Reconsidering approaches to Public Health Posters as Historical Sources.
You are warmly invited to the fifth talk in our History Research Seminar Series for Semester 2.
Charlotte White will be delivering a seminar on From Medieval Morality to Modern Medicine: Reconsidering approaches to Public Health Posters as Historical Sources.
This seminar will take an in-depth look at a public health poster designed by Basillio Cascella in 1920, reading it through an interdisciplinary lens in order to demonstrate how much more we can learn about the history of medicine and the environment when we explore beyond a purely historical approach. Inspired by medieval literature, designed by a classical painter, but communicating a message in support of modern medicine, this poster is just one example of the wealth of similar sources yet to be explored by historians, and provides us with a lens through which we can explore the connection between health and nature, better understand European identity and the 'Modern Health Crusade' of the interwar period and reunite the clinical image of medicine today with an expansive history of art, science and philosophy.
Chair: Clare Hickman
Location: ARMB 1.05
