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SUMMARY:Medicine and the Humanities from Ancient to Modern
DESCRIPTION:Since the emergence of Greek medicine as an independent fi
 eld of study in the time of Hippocrates\, there has been debate about 
 its status vis-à-vis the humanities. In the second century A.D.\, the
  physician Galen took considerable pains to identify medicine as a fou
 ndational liberal art rather than as a manual or menial trade. The sub
 sequent fate of his vast corpus—what was read when\, how\, and by wh
 om—is illustrative of the push and pull of ancient medicine between 
 science and the humanities up to the present day. Unlike the writing o
 f his more literary contemporaries\, Galen's corpus had an extensive\,
  pragmatic role in professional training. He formed the cornerstone of
  medical education until the 17th century and his role there persisted
  even into the 19th century. It was only as his medical popularity wan
 ed that study of him among philologists began to gain momentum. This t
 alk will investigate the issues at stake in Galen's time and then foll
 ow the fate of his influence through the ages into the modern debate o
 n the role of humanities in medical education.
LOCATION:ISAW Lecture Hall
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