Anatomy Anatomised
Two lectures by medical historians Andrew Cunningham and Ruth Richardson
In two public lectures medical historians Andrew Cunningham and Ruth Richardson question the making and keeping of anatomical collections.
Andrew Cunningham discusses the fate of the famous anatomical collections of the London surgeon John Hunter. Just as the fate of books is in the hands of their later readers, so the fate of anatomical collections is in the hands of their later keepers: what its keepers do with an anatomical collection can affect everything about it, right down to transforming the identity of the individual preparations in it.
Ruth Richardson’s lecture is something entirely different. She will give a performance reading of her essay 'ORGAN MUSIC', written after extensive fieldwork in a number of medical museums in the London region. It is a meditation among the specimens and bottles.
All welcome without prior registration!
Location: Museum Boerhaave, Lange St. Agnietenstraat 10, Leiden
Date: February 15, 2012
Time: 20:00
Cost: €7,50 (free for students and visitors with a ‘museumjaarkaart’).
