Here are some of the students from the French classes who are going to participate in the Academic Excellence Showcase this Thursday in other disciplines. If you’re not involved, make it to a few presentations and cheer them on. I will update it when I get more information.
Chloe Buzzard
What: Sin, Salvation and the Medieval Physician: Religious Influences on Fourteenth Century Medicine
Where: Columbia Room, Warner
when: 11:30am – 11:45am
Abstract:
During the global outbreak of the Black Death in the fourteenth century, medieval medical theories were tested. With an unknown disease wiping out populations globally, physicians sought to explain and combat the plague through religion and medicine. Scholars have recognized disparities in medical responses across cultures, without exploring the cause of these differences. My research focuses on variances between Christian and Muslim physicians’ theories of the disease by examining medical treatises. In his medical account of the plague, renowned Muslim physician Lisān Al-Dīn Ibn al-Khatīb asserted that the theory of contagion was wrong, stating that the disease was under God’s control. However, as seen in Contagion by the Medical Faculty of the University of Paris, Christian physicians found no conflict between the idea of a creator, God, and the theory of contagion. Although the basis of medical knowledge in Muslim and Christian society came from classical Greece and Rome, use of that knowledge differed, implying that it was each religion’s concepts of sin and salvation that altered the medical response.
Gabriela Hernandez
What: “Education & its Contribution to Peace”
Where: Pacific room
When: 11.00 am
Angeliki de Morgan
What: My paper is on Richard Wagner (who was not just a composer, but involved in the theatre, as well)
Where: Santiam Room (WUC)
When: 11.30-11.45 am
Natalie Laswell
What : art presentation
Where: Campbell Hall room 101 (102?)
When: 10.15 am
Lauren Sundvall
What: Tidal Power Stations
Where: NS 101
When: 8.45 am
Chloe Buzzard’s presentation, Sin, Salvation, and the Medieval Physician: The Influence of Religion on Fourteenth-Century Medicine, sounds like an intriguing and informative topic for the Academic Excellence Showcase. She seems to delve into a critical period in history, the global outbreak of the Black Death, and explores how different cultures’ religious beliefs influenced their medical response. As someone who appreciates the intersection of history and medicine, I am particularly intrigued by Chloe’s work. In addition, her research may be of value to dnp capstone project writers, historians of medicine, and anyone interested in the social and religious aspects of health care in the past.