Influences convergentes dans l’histoire de la médecine et de la pratique occidentales

Converging Influences in The History of Western Medicine and Practice

Herbal History Research Network 15th Anniversary Network

Early Bird £50 / £30 student / conc
 

Wednesday 16 Oct 2024
09:30-16.30
Medical Society of London, Lettsom House, 11 Chandos Street, W1G 9EB


09.30 Registration, tea & coffee
 

10.00 Welcome, Julia Nurse, Chair of HHRN & Research Development Lead,
Wellcome Collection
 

Session 1 (35 min inc. Q&A)

• Materia Medica as Material Culture, Professor Mark Nesbitt, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• Qinghao, the Glistening Green Herb (Artemisia annua L.) 2nd to the 20th century, Professor Elisabeth Hsu, University of Oxford
• Cunning Folk and 'Herbalists' in the Nineteenth-Century Medical Marketplace, Drs Debora Moretti and Peter Jones, Alternative Healers' Project, Universities of Hertfordshire and Nottingham
  

12.30-1.45 Light Lunch (included) & Poster Judging

2.00-4.30 Session 2

• Student Poster Winner Talk (5 min overview)
• ESCOP: 35 Years of Herbal Cooperation across Europe, Simon Mills, Medical Herbalist & Author
• Sweet and Sour Synergy: Oxymel as a Past and Present Medicine, Dr Erin Connelly, University of Warwick
• The Hidden Botanical Collections at the Natural History Museum, John Hunnex, National History Museum
• Concluding remarks, Julia Nurse