Casenotes Physicians' Gallery at RCPE

In this talk Dr Katie Aske discusses the history of skincare.

You can also watch this talk on our website: https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/talks/skin-layered-history-exhibition-launch

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In this talk Dr Emily Cock uses some of the immense volume of colonial administrative paperwork to illuminate experiences of individual prisoners with variable health and permanent disabilities.

You can also watch this talk on our website: https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/talks/health-and-disability-convict-sydney


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How did people in the past decide what to eat and what not to? What factors shaped their decisions? How did they obtain the information necessary to shape these decisions? And how did this information evolve over the course of the ‘early modern’ period (1500-1800)?

In this talk Professor David Gentilcore explores the changing nature of the genre of medicinal food advice. as well as some of the key factors which were meant to shape people’s individual relationship with food and drink – taste, gender, locale, occupation, social rank – before attempting to gauge how far early modern Europeans engaged with this advice.

You can also watch this talk on our website: https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/talks/food-drink-and-maintenance-health

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In this talk Dr Kate Stephenson explores the strange and fascinating history of condoms.

You can also watch this talk on our website: https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/talks/history-condoms

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In this talk Dr Matt Lodder presents an overview of his new book ‘Painted People’, and argues that through the history of tattooing, we can glean unique insights into forgotten areas of human history.

You can also watch this talk on our website: https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/talks/painted-people-untold-history-tattooing

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We're off on a new journey into the muddy marshes of medical history!

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