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Lunch Hour Lecture: Any Museum Heart: Cardiology through the Ages at UCL
05 March 2020, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
This lecture taps the rich vein of artefacts, artworks and specimens held within the UCL museums to trace the evolution of our knowledge of the cardiovascular system.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Organiser
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Emma Hart
Location
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Darwin Lecture TheatreDarwin BuildingGower StLondonWC1E 6BTUnited Kingdom
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About the lecture:
A light-hearted look at the history of cardiology at UCL through the prism of the UCL museums. This lecture taps the rich vein of artefacts, artworks and specimens held within the UCL museums to trace the evolution of our knowledge of the cardiovascular system over the last 4,000 years – from heart scarabs designed to cheat the ‘weighing of the heart’ ceremony in the ancient Egyptian afterlife to pioneering open-heart surgery with Dale-Shuster pumps. The aim of this lecture is to bring the history of cardiology to life and highlight the contribution of UCL to cardiovascular medicine.
About the Speaker
Katie Davenport-Mackey
Museum Visitor Services Assistant at UCL Culture
Katie is one of a team of Museum Visitor Services Assistants at UCL Culture. She has a BA in archaeology and a MA in museum studies. She has worked for UCL Culture for over a year. Katie was previously a Museum Visitor Services Assistant and Historical Interpreter at one of the oldest surviving Victorian operating theatres in Europe. During this time she developed curriculum linked hand-on workshops on the theme of Invaders and Settlers and Medicine through Time