Albert the Great on Health, Disease, and Disability

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Albert the Great on Health, Disease, and Disability

Veranstalter
College for Social Sciences and Humanities, UA Ruhr
PLZ
45127
Ort
Essen
Land
Deutschland
Findet statt
Hybrid
Vom - Bis
13.01.2025 - 14.01.2025
Deadline
08.01.2025
Website
https://www.college-uaruhr.de/news-events/events/albert-the-great-health-disease-disability
Von
Melina Wachtling, College for Social Sciences and Humanities, University Alliance Ruhr

Albert the Great’s (Albertus Magnus) natural philosophy and observations of nature in the thirteenth century paved the way for modern science. This mini-conference focuses on Albert’s understanding of health, disease, and disability.

Albert the Great on Health, Disease, and Disability

Albert the Great (Albertus Magnus; d. 1280) was a distinguished Scholastic theologian and natural philosopher who is celebrated as one of the outstanding forerunners of modern science, not least for his many experiments and observations of nature. Medieval medical students later used Albert’s massive commentary on Aristotle’s On Animals and Pseudo-Albert’s On the Secrets of Women for their discussions of comparative anatomy and physiology. This mini-conference examines aspects of natural philosophy in Albert’s thought, specifically his understanding of health, disease, and disability.

Please register by 8 January 2025.

Programm

MONDAY, 13 JANUARY 2025

9:45
Welcome
Irven M. Resnick, University of Tennessee (Chattanooga)

10:00
Albert the Great’s Approach to Medicine
Henryk Anzulewicz, Albertus-Magnus-Institut

11:00
Coffee Break

11:15
Healing Metals? Alchemy and Medicine as Arts for Recovering Bodily Substances
Mario Loconsole, University of Salento

12:15
Lunch

14:00
Albert, the Rabbi, and the Balsam: On Some Strange Quotations
Görge Hasselhoff, TU Dortmund University

15:00
Coffee Break

15:15
The Notion of Complexional Form from Albert the Great’s De Vegetabilibus to Pharmacological Debates in the Medical School of Bologna
Marilena Panarelli, University of Palermo

TUESDAY, 14 JANUARY 2025

10:00
Albert the Great on Fevers and other Diseases
Alessandro Palazzo, University of Trento

11:00
Coffee Break

11:15
Diseases, Defects, and Anomalies in the Embryological Process: Albert the Great and Virtus formative
Amalia Cerrito, University of Trento

12:15
Lunch

14:00
Taking Care, Taking Control: Women's Health-Care in the German Vernacular Translations of Ps.-Albert's Secrets of Women
Keagan Brewer, independent scholar

15:00
Coffee Break

15:15
Animals as Natural Physicians and Sources of Health
Irven M. Resnick, University of Tennessee (Chattanooga)

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