Cambridge Scholar to Lecture on Medical History

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Andrew Cunningham, a senior research Fellow in the History of Medicine at the University of Cambridge, will lecture on April 27 at Oklahoma State University.

Cunningham’s lecture is titled “Death in Venice (and in Bologna, but especially in Padua) in the Early 18th Century” and starts at 3:30 p.m. in Room 035 of Murray Hall. It is free and open to the public.

He is the writer and narrator behind “The Making of Modern Medicine” first heard on British Broadcasting Corp. Radio, which charts the development of Western medicine and covers more than 2,000 years of medical history.

“Dr. Cunningham explores how early medical researchers began to understand disease by comparing findings from clinical rounds to those from postmortem dissection,” said Elizabeth Williams, a history professor at OSU.

Cunningham is the author of many books covering medical history including The Laboratory Revolution in Medicine; The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Religion, War, Famine and Death in Reformation Europe; and the soon to be published The Anatomist Anatomized: An Experimental Discipline in Enlightenment Europe.

A reception will follow. The event is funded by the Ashley Fund for European History and the History of Medicine. Hosting the lecture is the OSU Department of History, which is one of 24 departments in the College of Arts & Sciences. To learn more, phone (405) 744-4679 or e-mail Elizabeth.williams@okstate.edu.