[AAHM_Clio_Project] Question about ancient medicine and current medical students

[Jennifer Gunn]

Dear All,

One of our graduate students, Emily Beck, and the curator of the
Wangensteen HIstorical Library, have worked extensively with students using
artifacts and exhibits based on the Wangensteen's collections. The exhibits
have included the medicine of Downton Abbey, Bodies and Spirits, Vesalius,
the Medical Exchanges: Mapping the Body in Japan and China. You can find
more information about those exhibits here: current https://hsl.lib.umn.ed
u/wangensteen/exhibits-and-events

They are currently planning a symposium in April titled "“Medical
Materialities: Teaching, Feeding, and Healing the Body through Medical
Humanities."

Here's a brief description: "By foregrounding the body, the symposium
identifies it as a transactional site.  In the first session on pedagogy
and anatomy, presenters will address the ways that teaching the body is
linked to larger pedagogical concerns during the Middle Ages, Italian
Risorgimento, and in today’s anatomy classroom.  This session will include
an opportunity for attendees to participate in a brainstorming poster
project where graduate students propose projects and receive feedback from
graduate students and faculty from a variety of disciplines who circulate
from project to project to identify possible methodologies to enrich
proposed research. The second session will turn to illness and infirmity,
again covering a range of time periods and disciplines. The final session
will include papers on the relationship between food and bodily health and
feature speakers on food in the Middle Ages, food and medicine in the early
modern period, and current approaches to nutrition and public health."

Lois and Emily are great resources for working with health professional
students, undergrads, and many other kinds of learners. I added them to
this email so you can find their email addresses.

Best,
Jennifer

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 2:18 PM, Hirshbein, Laura <lauradh at med.umich.edu>
wrote:

> Hi, I have a second year medical student at the University of Michigan who
> is working on a project with our new Medical Humanities Pathway of
> Excellence. She is working with staff at our archeological museum on campus
> to prepare seminars for current medical students to expose them to ancient
> medicine. They are beginning, logically enough, with a manuscript
> collection that includes some Hippocratic writings, and a curator is going
> to talk to the students.
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> The outreach person at the museum is very much interested in developing
> more programs, and she was wondering if other people had experience
> specifically with the idea of helping students engage with ancient
> materials or ideas. Since my definition of ancient is pre-Civil War, I
> thought I would ask the group to see if other people had good ideas?
> Materials? Reading suggestions?
>
>
>
> Thanks so much!
>
> Laura Hirshbein
>
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> Laura Hirshbein, MD, PhD
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> Professor
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> Adult Inpatient Psychiatry (9C) Medical Director
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> University of Michigan Department of Psychiatry
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