Thursday, October 31st, 2013 at 6:00 pm<\/strong>
\n Lindsey Fitzharris presents Medicine\u2019s Dark Secrets<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n![\"Fitzharris\"](\"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2013\/06\/25104302\/fitzharris.jpg\")
<\/a>This Halloween we will host Lindsey Fitzharris, who will discuss her forthcoming documentary film, Medicine\u2019s Dark Secrets<\/em>. \u00a0Lindsey has a Ph.D in the History of Medicine from Oxford University, and has spent the past few years in London medical museums, especially St. Bart\u2019s, researching the pathological specimen collections. \u00a0In the course of this research she became especially intrigued with the question, \u201cwhose remains became a specimen?\u201d \u00a0This led to an exploration of the life and demise of the persons whose remains survive in these collections, and more specifically, what led them to becoming an object of study in a jar of preserving fluid? \u00a0Unraveling this sad and indisputably peculiar fate takes Fitzharris\u2019s investigation on a curious, unusual path leading to a more full understanding of the medical past, warts and all. The event will be held in the Ford Auditorium (reception to follow in the Dittrick Museum) Allen Memorial Medical Library, 1000 Euclid Ave., Cleveland OH 44106<\/p>\nIf you plan on joining us please RSVP by October 28th to
\nJennifer Nieves <jks4@case.edu<\/a>> or by calling 216-368-3648.<\/h5>\n <\/p>\n
About the blogger
\n<\/b><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\nBrandy Schillace\u00a0<\/b>is a medical humanist, literary scholar and writer of Gothic fiction. She is the Managing Editor, Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry,\u00a0<\/i>a guest curator for Dittrick Museum, and a SAGES fellow for Case Western Reserve University (she has also worked as an assistant professor of literature at Winona State). She runs the Fiction Reboot and Daily Dose blogs, leads interdisciplinary conferences abroad for IDnet, and spends a lot of her time in museums and medical libraries.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Imagine, if you will, a low stone slab. Upon it, dimly lit and un-preserved, is a three-day-old corpse going slowing rancid in warm the summer night. This, young surgeon, is your textbook. If you are lucky. For many a medical student, the remains were less fresh, less available (and occasionally less human) than the one I have described. In the 16th century, Andreas Vesalius\u2013the father of anatomy\u2013had to steal half-rotten bodies from the gibbet after hanging. Not what you expect, perhaps, of the profession that has since risen to be one of the most well-respected and well-paid in medicine; long years were spent in the dark before surgeons (and surgery) entered the light.<\/p>\n
<\/a>This Halloween we will host Lindsey Fitzharris, who will discuss her forthcoming documentary film, Medicine\u2019s Dark Secrets<\/em>. \u00a0Lindsey has a Ph.D in the History of Medicine from Oxford University, and has spent the past few years in London medical museums, especially St. Bart\u2019s, researching the pathological specimen collections. \u00a0In the course of this research she became especially intrigued with the question, \u201cwhose remains became a specimen?\u201d \u00a0This led to an exploration of the life and demise of the persons whose remains survive in these collections, and more specifically, what led them to becoming an object of study in a jar of preserving fluid? \u00a0Unraveling this sad and indisputably peculiar fate takes Fitzharris\u2019s investigation on a curious, unusual path leading to a more full understanding of the medical past, warts and all. The event will be held in the Ford Auditorium (reception to follow in the Dittrick Museum) Allen Memorial Medical Library, 1000 Euclid Ave., Cleveland OH 44106<\/p>\nIf you plan on joining us please RSVP by October 28th to
\nJennifer Nieves <jks4@case.edu<\/a>> or by calling 216-368-3648.<\/h5>\n <\/p>\n
About the blogger
\n<\/b><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\nBrandy Schillace\u00a0<\/b>is a medical humanist, literary scholar and writer of Gothic fiction. She is the Managing Editor, Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry,\u00a0<\/i>a guest curator for Dittrick Museum, and a SAGES fellow for Case Western Reserve University (she has also worked as an assistant professor of literature at Winona State). She runs the Fiction Reboot and Daily Dose blogs, leads interdisciplinary conferences abroad for IDnet, and spends a lot of her time in museums and medical libraries.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Imagine, if you will, a low stone slab. Upon it, dimly lit and un-preserved, is a three-day-old corpse going slowing rancid in warm the summer night. This, young surgeon, is your textbook. If you are lucky. For many a medical student, the remains were less fresh, less available (and occasionally less human) than the one I have described. In the 16th century, Andreas Vesalius\u2013the father of anatomy\u2013had to steal half-rotten bodies from the gibbet after hanging. Not what you expect, perhaps, of the profession that has since risen to be one of the most well-respected and well-paid in medicine; long years were spent in the dark before surgeons (and surgery) entered the light.<\/p>\n
About the blogger Imagine, if you will, a low stone slab. Upon it, dimly lit and un-preserved, is a three-day-old corpse going slowing rancid in warm the summer night. This, young surgeon, is your textbook. If you are lucky. For many a medical student, the remains were less fresh, less available (and occasionally less human) than the one I have described. In the 16th century, Andreas Vesalius\u2013the father of anatomy\u2013had to steal half-rotten bodies from the gibbet after hanging. Not what you expect, perhaps, of the profession that has since risen to be one of the most well-respected and well-paid in medicine; long years were spent in the dark before surgeons (and surgery) entered the light.<\/p>\n
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