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Podcast: Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts
Episode: Talking with the Dead: Narratives from The Old Anatomy Museum
Description: Recorded 16 February 2023.
A hybrid lecture by Evi Numen (TCD) as part of the Medical and Health Humanities Seminar Series. Medical museums begun their existence as galleries of wonder, a way to celebrate God’s creations through collecting and publicly accessible display. As medical knowledge and teaching developed, medical collections moved from this quasi-religious domain to establishments of scientific research and education out of the public eye. The advent of modern imaging and other teaching technologies pushed some of these difficult-to-upkeep collections into obscurity altogether. In recent years, they are coming out of the shadows, bringing with them some difficult questions an...