May 21 1:30-3:30 Department 2 Colloquium (Rm 215)
Alisha Rankin, ”To Cure a Thief: Testing Poison Antidotes in Early Modern Europe”
READING GROUPS:
May 22 11:00-1:30 Recipes Reading Group [co-organized with the Dupré Research Group]
Samir Boumediene,’Peruvian Bark Recipes: A Few Drops that Changed the World’
Please email officedupre@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de for a copy of the readings. Meeting takes place in the Villa seminar room.
The Testing Drugs and Trying Cures Reading Group will meet 12:00-13:30 on Fridays June 6, 13 and 20 in room 214. All welcome. Please feel free to bring your own lunch!
June 6: Cures and “experience-based medicine” in the middle ages and early Renaissance
Park, Katharine. “Natural Particulars: Medical Epistemology, Practice, and the Literature of Healing Springs.” In Natural Particulars: Nature and the Disciplines in Renaissance Europe, edited by Anthony and Nancy Siraisi Grafton. 347-67. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999.
Michael McVaugh, ‘Experience-Based Medicine of the Thirteenth-century’, Early Science and Medicine, 14 (2009), 105-30.
June 13: Vipers and Snakestones
Paula Findlen, ‘Controlling the Experiment: Rhetoric, Court Patronage and the Experimental Method of Franceso Redi’, History of Science 31 (1993), 35-64.
Jutta Schickore, ‘Trying Again and Again: Multiple Repetitions in Early Modern Reports of Experiements on Snake Bites’, Early Science and Medicine 15 (2010), 567-617.
June 20: Scurvy and Eudiometry
Kenneth J. Carpenter, “Captain Cook and Pneumatic Chemistry (1770-1815),” in The History of Scurvy and Vitamin C (Cambridge UP, 1987), pp. 75-97.
Simon Schaffer, “Measuring Virtue: Eudiometry, Enlightenment and Pneumatic Medicine,” in Andrew Cunningham and Roger French, eds, The Medical Enlightenment of the Eighteenth Century (Cambridge UP, 1990), pp. 281-318.
Computer animation of eudiometer (Museo Galileo).