Size, Weight, and Pulse in Medical Theory and Practice

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The next CSMBR webinar will host a session on “Measuring Health and the Body: Size, Weight, and Pulse in Medical Theory and Practice”:

Yijie Huang (University of Cambridge), Expressing the Pulse in Seventeenth-Century England: Idioms, Numbers, & Measurement

Holly Fletcher (University of Sussex), Food and Fat: Creating Body Size in Early Modern Germany

Marsha Wubbels (University Exeter), A Weighty Matter: Understanding Santorio’s ‘Healthful Standard’ and Early Modern Body-Weighing Practices

Alexander Pyrges (JMU Würzburg), Using Big Numbers. The Meaning and Purpose of Weight Indications in Medical Texts on Corpulence, c. 1600-1900

Tuesday 25 January 2022, 10:00-12:30 (CET)

Source: https://csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events-and-activities/online/measuring-health/

 

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