Ideas of the body
Bodies, theories and diagnosis
How healers described the body, classified illness, examined patients, and made disease legible.
- Ancient Egyptian medicinePapyri, ritual and practical healing
- History of anatomyDissection, structures and the opened body
- History of bedside medicineExamination, diagnosis and clinical teaching
- Mental health and asylumsConfinement, care and institutional reform
- History of psychiatryDiagnosis, treatment and contested authority
- History of pathologyAutopsy, tissue and disease classification
- History of forensic medicineMedical evidence, death and the law