About the lecture

In this module, we look at the early career of Galen. We see why Galen chose medicine as a career, what his training involved, and how he built up a reputation for himself first in Pergamon and then in Rome.

About the lecturer

Vivian Nutton is Emeritus Professor at the UCL Centre for the History of Medicine and current President of the Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance (CSMBR). He has written extensively on Galen (129-216 C.E.) and the Galenic tradition, and has also written more generally on medicine in classical antiquity. His recent work has centred on the Renaissance anatomist, Andreas Vesalius.