Hear Dr Joanne Edge discuss how physicians in the later Middle Ages predicted the outcomes of illnesses: when and whether sufferers would die, recover or decline. Using manuscripts in Wellcome Collection, Dr Edge will reflect on the ethically fraught issue of prognosis that continues to affect medical practitioners and patients today.
Following the presentation from our speaker there will be an opportunity to discuss her ideas.
We’ll be in the Viewing Room. It’s next to the Library entrance on level 2, which you can reach by taking the lift or the stairs.
Spaces are limited and may run out if we are busy so you may wish to arrive early.
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Dr Joanne Edge is a social and cultural historian of medicine and the occult in the period 1200–1700. She did her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at the University of London before holding positions across research, teaching and special collections at the universities of Cambridge, Manchester, Edinburgh, Goldsmiths and Portsmouth. She is currently a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire. Her first book, 'Onomantic Divination in Late Medieval Britain', was published in 2024, and she is currently preparing her second monograph on bewitchment suspicions in the casebooks of the early 17th century astrologer Richard Napier.
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