Vivian Nutton FBA (born 1943) is a British historian of medicine. He is

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at the UCL Centre for the History of Medicine,

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, and president of the Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance (CSMBR).

Education

Nutton acquired his B.A. in

Classics Classics, also classical studies or Ancient Greek and Roman studies, is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, ''classics'' traditionally refers to the study of Ancient Greek literature, Ancient Greek and Roman literature and ...

at the

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in 1965 and subsequently taught there as a Fellow of Selwyn College (1967–77). He received his Ph.D. in 1970.

Career

Since 1977, he has worked at the

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as a lecturer, and since 1993 as professor. He is a member of several international learned societies and a Fellow of the

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. Since 2015, he has worked at I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (1st MSMU). Nutton's main field of research is the ancient Greek physician

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. His work covers ancient

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and its reception history, in particular during the

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and in the

medieval Islamic world In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the 5th to the late 15th centuries, similarly to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and t ...

Selected publications

* ''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

London: Routledge, 2004 * ''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 * ''Galen: A Thinking Doctor in Imperial Rome'', London: Routledge, 2020
Brief description at Routledge website

''Renaissance Medicine: A Short History of European Medicine in the Sixteenth Century''

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: Routledge, 2022

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nutton, Vivian 1943 births Living people British classical scholars British medical historians Fellows of Selwyn College, Cambridge Academics of University College London Alumni of Selwyn College, Cambridge Fellows of the British Academy Members of the International Academy of the History of Science