The life and legacy of Dr Edward Jenner FRS, pioneer of vaccination Known to many as “the father of immunology”, Edward Jenner...
How To Choose a Doctor or Surgeon Various governments have promoted ‘patient choice’ as part of NHS...
Building the Victorian City: Splendour and Squalor By 1900 Britain had produced the world’s largest cities and...
The Connected Brain: Network and Communication The brain is mostly organised into small modular regions connected...
Christopher Wren’s Medical Discoveries: the ‘Architect of Human Anatomy’ ** Please note that this lecture will contain several mentions...
Unwritten Laws? Legacies from Antigone and Lycurgus Sophocles’ Antigone refers to “unwritten laws”, as does Thucydides’ Pericles...
The face of Charles Dickens - portraits of the great author Charles Dickens was drawn, painted and photographed more than most...
Florence Nightingale and her Crimean War Statistics: Lessons for hospital safety, public administration and nursing Professor McDonald will discusses the history and the myth surrounding...
To Blame or Not to Blame? The Medical Profession and Blame Culture Traditionally, medicine has been taught by imitation, apprenticeship and humiliation...