October 30, 2018 Dr Paul Potter presents "Earliest extant Greek manuscripts of Diseases of Women I-II" at the Colloque Hippocratique meeting in Rome, Oct 25-27, 2018. Wonderful timing to coincide with new publication of Hippocrates Volume XI Diseases of Women 1-2, edited and translated by Paul Potter (the 11th and final volume in the Loeb Classical Library's complete edition of Hippocrates' texts). Congratulations Dr Potter!
May 16, 2018 Dr Alexandra Istl (Med 2015) publishes historical research on Dr Edwin Seaborn and Western's medical response in the Journal of Medical Biography (May 2018). Read more ...
November 18, 2015 Ali Tavallaei is making better use of his time these days. As one of three young scholars chosen as part of the recently launched Western Medical Innovation Fellowship program, his focus has been streamlined.
November 04, 2015 The inaugural lecture for the newly introduced History of Medicine Visiting Speaker Series took place earlier this month with huge success. Nearly 100 people were in attendance for Dr. Dale C. Smith’s lecture, “Caring for the Wounded: How the Great War Medical Experience Shaped Post-War American Surgery.”
November 04, 2015 "Somebody Call the Doctor - Rural Medical Practices in the Late Nineteenth Century" is a new hallway case display outside MSB 146 and MSB 148 that showcases objects from the Medical Artifact Collection at Western. Stop to see some of the artifacts used in 'doctoring' when house calls and kitchen table surgery took place! To learn more about the 1200 medical objects in the Medical Artifact Collection at Western, go to http://medicalhistory.uwo.ca/
