Vivian Nutton
{{Short description|British professor and historian of medicine (born 1943)}}
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- Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance
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Vivian Nutton FBA (born 1943) is a British historian of medicine.{{cite web |title=Nutton, Prof. Vivian, (born 21 Dec. 1943), Professor of the History of Medicine, University College London, 1993–2009, now Emeritus |url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/display/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-247354 |website=Who's who & who was who |date=2008 |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=19 May 2024 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U247354|url-access=subscription}}{{cite web |title=Professor Vivian Nutton FBA |url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/vivian-nutton-FBA/ |website=The British Academy |access-date=13 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231013065735/https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/vivian-nutton-FBA/ |archive-date=13 October 2023 |language=en}} He is Emeritus Professor at the UCL Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London, and president of the Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance (CSMBR).
Education
Nutton acquired his B.A. in Classics at the University of Cambridge in 1965 and subsequently taught there as a Fellow of Selwyn College (1967–77).Selwyn College Calendar, 1986/87 He received his Ph.D. in 1970.{{cite web |title=Academy of Europe: CV |url=https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Nutton_Vivian/CV |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240521025248/https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Nutton_Vivian/CV |archive-date=21 May 2024 |access-date=20 May 2024 |website=www.ae-info.org}}
Career
Since 1977, he has worked at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine as a lecturer, and since 1993 as professor. He is a member of several international learned societies and a Fellow of the British Academy.
Since 2015, he has worked at I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (1st MSMU). Nutton's main field of research is the ancient Greek physician Galen. His work covers ancient history of medicine and its reception history, in particular during the European Renaissance and in the medieval Islamic world.{{Cite book |last=Ragab |first=Ahmed |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qpuNCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA14 |title=The Medieval Islamic Hospital: Medicine, Religion, and Charity |date=2015 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-10960-5 |location=New York |pages=14 |language=en |chapter=A deep inquiry: care and cure in late antiquity}}
Selected publications
- John Caius and the Manuscripts of Galen, Cambridge: Cambridge Philological Society, 1987 {{LCCN|88116761}} {{isbn|9780906014097}}
- {{cite book|title=2020 ebook edition|isbn=978-0-906014-09-7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e6hYEAAAQBAJ |last1=Nutton |first1=Vivian |date=30 August 2020 |publisher=Cambridge Philological Society }}
- From Democedes to Harvey: Studies in the History of Medicine, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 1988{{cite journal|doi=10.1017/S0025727300048961 |title=Review of From Democedes to Harvey: Studies in the history of medicine by Vivian Nutton |date=1989 |last1=Lloyd |first1=G. E. R. |author-link=G. E. R. Lloyd |journal=Medical History |volume=33 |pages=128–129 }} {{isbn|0860782255}}
- Medicine at the Courts of Europe 1500–1837, London: Routledge, 1990 {{LCCN|89010484}} {{isbn|0415022649}}
- The Western Medical Tradition: 800 BC to AD 1800, with Lawrence I. Conrad and Michael Neve, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=IQSqsB4HPLsC The History of Medical Education in Britain], Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1995 {{isbn|90-5183-571-X}}
- Galen, On My Own Opinions (trans.) Akademie Verlag, 1999 {{LCCN|99521868}} {{isbn|3050033401}}
- Renaissance Studies: Medicine in the Renaissance City (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001
- The Unknown Galen, London: Institute of Classical Studies, 2002
- [https://books.google.com/books/about/Ancient_Medicine.html?id=I8yIAgAAQBAJ Ancient Medicine], London: Routledge, 2004{{cite journal|pmc=1369018 |date=2006 |last1=Laskaris |first1=Julie |title=Book Review: Ancient medicine by Vivian Nutton |journal=Medical History |volume=50 |issue=1 |pages=118–119 |doi=10.1017/S0025727300009492 }}{{cite journal|author=Scarborough, John|url=https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2005/2005.07.74/ |title=Ancient Medicine – Bryn Mawr Review [Review of Ancient Medicine by Vivian Nutton] |journal=Bryn Mawr Classical Review |year=2005}}
- Pestilential Complexities: Understanding Medieval Plague, London: Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2008 {{LCCN|2008399268}} {{isbn|9780854841165}}
- Galen: On Problematical Movements, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011 {{LCCN|2011009030}} {{isbn|9780521115490}}
- Method of Medicine, Volume I: Books 1–4 (Loeb Classical Library), Cambridge, Mass: Harvard Univ. Press, 2011
- Galen: A Thinking Doctor in Imperial Rome, London: Routledge, 2020. [https://www.routledge.com/Galen-A-Thinking-Doctor-in-Imperial-Rome/Nutton/p/book/9780367357238 Brief description at Routledge website] {{isbn|9780367357238}}
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=_9JfEAAAQBAJ Renaissance Medicine: A Short History of European Medicine in the Sixteenth Century], Abingdon-on-Thames: Routledge, 2022{{cite web|author=Van Schack, Katherine D.|url=https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2022/05/12/renaissance-medicine-a-short-history-of-european-medicine-in-the-sixteenth-century/ |title=Renaissance Medicine: A Short History of European Medicine in the Sixteenth Century – Medical Humanities [Review of Renaissance Medicine: A Short History of European Medicine in the Sixteenth Century by Vivian Nutton] |year=2022 |website=Blog {{!}} Medical Humanities (blogs.bmj.com)}} {{cite book|title=ebook edition|isbn=978-1-003-22318-4}}
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