Vivian Nutton FBA (born 1943) is a British historian of medicine.[1][2] He is Emeritus Professor at the UCL Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London, and president of the Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance (CSMBR).
Vivian Nutton | |
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 Nutton (2024) | |
| Born | 1943 |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of Cambridge |
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Education edit
Nutton acquired his B.A. in Classics at the University of Cambridge in 1965 and subsequently taught there as a Fellow of Selwyn College (1967–77).[3] He received his Ph.D. in 1970.[4]
Career edit
Since 1977, he has worked at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine as a lecturer, and since 1993 as professor.[4] He is a member of several international learned societies and a Fellow of the British Academy.[2]
Since 2015, he has worked at I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (1st MSMU).[4] Nutton's main field of research is the ancient Greek physician Galen.[2] His work covers ancient history of medicine and its reception history, in particular during the European Renaissance and in the medieval Islamic world.[2][5]
Selected publications edit
- John Caius and the Manuscripts of Galen, Cambridge: Cambridge Philological Society, 1987
- From Democedes to Harvey: Studies in the History of Medicine, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 1988
- Medicine at The Courts of Europe 1500-1837, London: Routledge, 1990
- The Western Medical Tradition: 800 BC to Ad 1800, with Lawrence I. Conrad and Michael Neve, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995
- The History of Medical Education in Britain, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1995
- Galen, On My Own Opinions, (trans.) Akademie Verlag, 1999
- Renaissance Studies: Medicine in the Renaissance City, (Ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001
- The Unknown Galen, London: Institute of Classical Studies, 2002
- Ancient Medicine, London: Routledge, 2005
- Pestilential Complexities: Understanding Medieval Plague, London: Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2008
- Galen: On Problematical Movements, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011
- Method of Medicine, Volume I: Books 1-4 (Loeb Classical Library), Cambridge, Mass: Harvard Univ. Press, 2011
References edit
- ^ "Nutton, Prof. Vivian, (born 21 Dec. 1943), Professor of the History of Medicine, University College London, 1993–2009, now Emeritus". Who's who & who was who. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-247354. Retrieved 19 May 2024.
- ^ a b c d "Professor Vivian Nutton FBA". The British Academy. Archived from the original on 13 October 2023. Retrieved 13 October 2023.
- ^ Selwyn College Calendar, 1986/87
- ^ a b c "Academy of Europe: CV". www.ae-info.org. Archived from the original on 21 May 2024. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
- ^ Ragab, Ahmed (2015). "A deep inquiry: care and cure in late antiquity". The Medieval Islamic Hospital: Medicine, Religion, and Charity. New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 14. ISBN 978-1-107-10960-5.