Fall 2024 Colloquium - Shigehisa Kuriyama
Director, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
A Charles E. Culpeper Lecture in the History of Medicine & Co-sponsored by the Center for Premodern Studies
Title: "The Great Forgetting" --or the one thing that everyone should know about the history of medicine--
Abstract: If there is one thing that everyone should know about the history of medicine, I shall argue, it is the Great Forgetting. But the first thing to appreciate about the Great Forgetting is that it itself has been forgotten, In my talk, I shall explain what the Great Forgetting is, why it is so essential to an appreciation of medical history, how it occurred, and the reasons for why--despite its critical importance-- it has been almost completely overlooked.
