Alanna Skuse: The Surgeon, The Midwife, The Quack: How to Stay Alive in Renaissance England

Name: Alanna Skuse: The Surgeon, The Midwife, The Quack: How to Stay Alive in Renaissance England
Start: 2025-10-02T16:30:00+01:00
Location: Unitarian Chapel, Warwick, England

Schedule

Thu, 02 Oct, 2025 at 04:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Unitarian Chapel, Warwick, England | Leicester, EN

Imagine Renaissance medicine: unsterile instruments, no anaesthetics and shocking levels of infant and maternal mortality. Not to mention astrology, bloodletting and a litany of bizarre ‘treatments’, more likely to K*ll than to cure…
As ever, the true picture is somewhat different. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, modern medicine began to take shape, and medical education was being formalised. Through dissections and hands-on experience in war, surgeons were documenting the intricacies of the human body. And, as European powers expanded into the New World, new medicines and treatments were being discovered and cultivated.
Historian Alanna Skuse ventures into the bustling medical marketplace of Renaissance England to reveal the miraculous birth of modern medicine.
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