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Greg Jenner

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You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England

So I'm curious, what is, I mean, Ria's done a pretty good job there, but why is the English Renaissance not the Italian Renaissance?

You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England

Thank you to the French.

You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England

Renaissance.

You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England

That's even worse.

You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England

I mean, you can't trust archaeologists with anything.

You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England

We're talking here about a renaissance that arrives in England later than in Italy and in France.

You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England

So it's the Tudor and Stuart eras, you know, 16th, 17th centuries.

You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England

Is there a kind of commonality between European medicine and English medicine in this period?

You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England

Alana, what does anatomise mean?

You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England

Fair enough.

You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England

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You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England

That's quite the caveat, isn't it?

You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England

Yeah.

You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England

Is it the best hospital?

You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England

No.

You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England

And I suppose the other thing to say is this is after the printing press, right?

You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England

We are post Gutenberg.

You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England

So we're getting the proliferation of written stuff.

You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England

Right.

You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England

You know, we're talking here about before the discovery of microorganisms, Ria.