Medical Humanities Discussing Bodily Enhancement Assoc. Prof. Dr. Rainer Brömer, Istanbul University Medical Faculty, Dept. for History of Medicine and Ethics date: Wednesday, 19 April, 7PM UTC+02 location: Orient-Institut Istanbul, Susam Sok. 16, D. 8, Cihangir-Istanbul We encourage you to share this invitation with people you know who may be interested in attending this event. […]
Month: April 2017
Conceptions of Contagious Diseases among Early Modern Ottomans (Sara Nur Yıldız), Wednesday, 12 April, 7PM, OII
How did Ottoman physicians conceive of epidemic diseases and pestilence and their relationship to contagion? This talk addresses this question through the examination of a medical text composed by Mehmed IV’s (r. 1648-1687) head physician, Ḥayātīzāde Muṣṭafā Feyżī the Elder (d. 1692), or Moshe ben Raphael Abravanel, as he was known before he converted to […]