A well-presented podcast covering the contributions of Pare, Vesalius and Harvey to the development of medical knowledge. It is a useful summary for beginning teachers who have not studied or taught the history of medicine before.

Who was the most significant figure in Renaissance medicine?

In this podcast five students discuss three of the most prolific figures in Renaissance medicine: Andreas Vesalius, Ambroise Paré and William Harvey. Hopefully, by the end of this 10 minutes you’ll have some fresh ideas about how you judge significance in the curriculum, how to think critically about these figures and how to challenge eurocentrism with the latest historiography on Islamic contemporaries. We have broken this session down into roughly three sections: first we’ll tackle the content of these figures' discoveries, secondly the implications on scientific methodology that these discoveries had, and finally, we will be closing off with their wider social impact.