As you prepare for your trip to Kalamazoo this May, keep an eye on the schedule for Thursday, May 13th. At 10:00 a.m., please come to Room 1280 in the Schneider Building to hear speakers present a fascinating look at various perspectives of everyday medicine at the Medica-sponsored session Regimens of Health: Housebooks and Everyday Medicine. After which, walk down the hill to Valley III, Room 304 to attend Medica's Annual Business Meeting at noon. We'll be discussing plans for future Medica sessions at Kalamazoo and Leeds, as well as plans for growing the society. Bring a lunch and a friend. All are welcome. See details below.
Thursday 10:00 a.m., Room 1280 Schneider
(Session 34) Regimens of Health: Housebooks and Everyday Medicine
Presider: William H. York (Portland State University)
- Efraim Lev (University of Haifa), “Mediators between Theoretical and Practical Medieval Medical Knowledge: Notebooks in the Cairo Genizah and their Importance”
- Donna Trembinski (St. Francis Xavier University), “Household Cures for Common Pain”
- Sarah Matthews (University of Iowa), “Bloodletting in Monastic Customaries”
- Iona McCleery (University of Leeds), “Preserving the Health of Body, State and Soul: Recipes and Regimen in the Commonplace Book of King Duarte of Portugal (1433-38)”
Medica Business Meeting
Open meeting for members and anyone interested in researching illness and healing in the Middle Ages.
See you in May,
Linda Migl Keyser
Medica, President
