Vivian Nutton

Vivian Nutton
Nutton (2024)
Born	1943
Occupation	Historian

Academic background
Education	University of Cambridge
Academic work
Institutions	Selwyn College Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University UCL Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London

Vivian Nutton FBA (born 1943) is a British historian of medicine.^[1]^[2] He is Emeritus Professor at the UCL Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London, 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 at the University of Cambridge in 1965 and subsequently taught there as a Fellow of Selwyn College (1967–77).^[3] He received his Ph.D. in 1970.^[4]

Since 1977, he has worked at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine as a lecturer, and since 1993 as professor.^[4] He is a member of several international learned societies and a Fellow of the British Academy.^[2]

Since 2015, he has worked at I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (1st MSMU).^[4] Nutton's main field of research is the ancient Greek physician Galen.^[2] His work covers ancient history of medicine and its reception history, in particular during the European Renaissance and in the medieval Islamic world.^[2]^[5]

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
Ancient Medicine, London: Routledge, 2005
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

^ "Nutton, Prof. Vivian, (born 21 Dec. 1943), Professor of the History of Medicine, University College London, 1993–2009, now Emeritus". Who's who & who was who. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-247354. Retrieved 19 May 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Professor Vivian Nutton FBA". The British Academy. Archived from the original on 13 October 2023. Retrieved 13 October 2023.
^ Selwyn College Calendar, 1986/87
^ ^a ^b ^c "Academy of Europe: CV". www.ae-info.org. Archived from the original on 21 May 2024. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
^ Ragab, Ahmed (2015). "A deep inquiry: care and cure in late antiquity". The Medieval Islamic Hospital: Medicine, Religion, and Charity. New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 14. ISBN 978-1-107-10960-5.

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