A Curious History of Medicine

Name: A Curious History of Medicine
Start: 2025-10-22T19:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-10-22T21:00:00+01:00
Location: Rock Road Library

Schedule

Wed Oct 22 2025 at 07:30 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Rock Road Library | Cambridge, EN

The intriguing history of medicine, with Dr Carol Cooper & James Freeman, curator of Cambridge University Library's Curious Cures exhibition.
Intriguing, illuminating and probably gruesome in parts, in this unique event Dr Carol Cooper and James Freeman will discuss the development of medical knowledge and equipment from the medieval period onwards.
Carol is the author of The History of Medicine in Twelve Objects and James is curator of Cambridge University Library's current exhibition about medieval medicine, Curious Cures.
The conversation will be followed by Q&A.
Copies of Carol's book will be available to purchase.
Doors open at 7:15pm for a 7:30pm start.
[Image: Photo of Dr Cooper, seated in a white shirt, and a headshot of James Freeman, either side of the red cover of The History of Medicine in Twelve Objects]