Talking with the Dead: Narratives from The Old Anatomy Museum

Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts · Mar 3, 2023 · 54m

Recorded 16 February 2023. A hybrid lecture by Evi Numen (TCD) as part of the Medical and Health Humanities Seminar Series. Medical museums begun their existence as galleries of wonder, a way to celebrate God’s creations through collecting and publicly accessible display. As medical knowledge and teaching developed, medical collections moved from this quasi-religious domain to establishments of scientific research and education out of the public eye. The advent of modern imaging and other teaching technologies pushed some of these difficult-to-upkeep collections into obscurity altogether. In…