The aim of the History of Medicine and Health Special Interest Group is to bring together university academics and students and to forge links with other interested parties both within the University and externally.
Hosted by the Faculty of Health, the group seeks to promote interdisciplinary and cross-faculty research collaborations, holding online seminars each semester with invited speakers and to enable researchers to showcase their work.
The next group seminar entitled 'Ancient Egyptian dental health and dentistry' will be given by guest speaker Dr Roger Forshaw, an honorary lecturer in Biomedical Egyptology at the University of Manchester.
Roger is a former dental surgeon who subsequently studied Egyptology and biomedical Egyptology before teaching and researching in these fields. His talk will focus on what we know about Ancient Egyptian dental health status, dentistry and healing practices through the use of dental and medical knowledge in combination with contemporary scientific and archaeological investigations.
All are welcome to join the meeting and the Zoom link will be confirmed nearer the time.
Email julie.tomlinson@plymouth.ac.uk for any queries.