Bones, Bottles & Brains: Teaching Anatomy in Dundee & St Andrews 1880–1900

08/07/2019 18:00 - 08/07/2019 20:00
Location
D’Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum, Carnelley Building

A free talk by Dr Jessica M Dandona, US-UK Fulbright Scholar 2018-19, currently based at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design
D’Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum, Carnelley Building, University of Dundee

Tuesday 23 July 2019, 6pm

 

This fascinating talk will discuss how materials such as wax models, teaching charts and human specimens were used to teach anatomy to Medical School students at University College Dundee and the University of St Andrews at the end of the 19th century. How did these two very different institutions, one venerable and another only recently founded, come together to create a Medical School? In this talk, we will attempt to reconstruct what it might have been like to be a medical student in the 1890s - from the lecture theatre to the dissecting room, when and where did students study the body - and how? To accompany the talk we’ll have some of the original anatomical models on display.

The talk is free but places should be booked via https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bones-bottles-brains-teaching-anatomy-in-dundee-st-andrews-18801900-tickets-64718536886

 

Refreshments will be served after the talk. Please enter the Carnelley Building by the main front entrance. Latecomers may not be admitted.