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Podcast: Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts
Episode: TLRH | The Perceived Relationship between Medicine and the Funeral Trade in 18th century England
Description: Wednesday, 20 April 2022, 12:30 – 1:30pm
‘“When the pulse won’t yield a fee” the perceived relationship between medicine and the funeral trade in 18th century England’ a seminar by Dr Dan O’Brien (Bath) as part of the Medical and Health Humanities Lunchtime Seminar Series in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub.
Description
During the long eighteenth century the management of death was increasingly performed by a variety of different specialists: doctors, lawyers, clergymen and undertakers. In the popular culture of the period, the relationship between two of these professions was a source of great comment and satire. Doctors and undertakers were satirised...