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Wednesday, May 27, 2026
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GHCC Roundtable: Photographing violence: Soldier-photographers as perpetrators and witnesses during the Algerian War, 1954-1962 with Rachel M. White (University of Groningen) and Susie Protschky (VU Amsterdam)FAB3.26 Faculty of Arts Building |
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CHMST Research Seminar: ,"Intuitive eating: a seventeenth-century guide鈥. Philippa Carter, Cambridge UniversityOculus Building OC1.07Abstract: This paper explores the reconfiguration of diet, appetite and digestion in seventeenth-century chemical medicine. Comparing the writings of two self-styled physician-philosophers, Jan Baptist Van Helmont (1580–1644) and Everard Maynwaring (c. 1629–1713), it considers how subtle differences in their accounts of 'human nature' translated into practice: in Van Helmont鈥檚 case, as a stout rejection of the value of dietetics, and in Maynwaring鈥檚, as an embrace of the same. Ultimately, I argue, Maynwaring chose to modify elements of his Helmontian anthropology rather than abandon his longstanding commitment to diet as the cornerstone of good health.
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