Presented by
the Department of Classics
Cosponsored by
the Center for the Humanities
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Medicine and Poetry:
from the Greeks to the Enlightenment
Keynote Speaker:
Brooke Holmes, Princeton University
Friday, March 20, 2015
CAS Gallery / Wesley Foundation
1210 Stanford Drive
Coral Gables, FL 33146
From Homer’s depiction of wounds and Lucretius on plague and death to Erasmus Darwin’s rhymed verse portrayals of plants and zoology and beyond, poetic texts have reflected, disseminated, and actively engaged with contemporary ideas about medicine and the body. While scholarly work on poetry or the history and philosophy of science has long proceeded in parallel, the conjunction of the two remains understudied. With the recent surge of interest in medical humanities and sub-topics such as narrative medicine and the verbal (in)articulation of bodily pain, this timely conference investigates how medical knowledge is expressed, often by non-specialists, in poetry.
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