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Nick Summerton on whether you can diagnose someone who died fifteen hundred years ago.
Lecture / talkHistoryScience & nature
At Society of Antiquaries of London.
Retrospective diagnosis takes modern medicine to a historical figure and asks what was wrong with them - usually from documents and objects alone, since only in rare cases like Richard III is there a skeleton to examine. The practice has been called both illogical and inappropriate, given how far medicine has moved, and the lecture takes that objection seriously rather than brushing past it. A lunchtime lecture.
Tuesday 6 October 2026: from 13:00
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