"Albert the Great on Health, Disease, and Disability"

JANUARY 2025 - A two-day program was held from January 13-14, 2025, at the College for Social Sciences and Humanities, University Alliance Ruhr, Research Alliance, Lindenallee 39-41, 45127 Essen, Germany.

The program examined “Albert the Great on Health, Disease, and Disability.” Here is the list of presenters:

• Henryk Anzulewicz (Albertus-Magnus-Institut), “Albert the Great’s Approach to Medicine”

• Mario Loconsole (University of Salento), “Healing Metals? Alchemy and Medicine as Arts for Recovering Bodily Substances”

• Görge Hasselhoff (TU Dortmund University), “Albert, the Rabbi, and the Balsam: On Some Strange Quotations”

• Marilena Panarelli (University of Palermo), “The Notion of Complexional Form from Albert the Great’s De Vegetabilibus to Pharmacological Debates in the Medical School of Bologna”

• Alessandro Palazzo (University of Trento), “Albert the Great on Fevers and other Diseases”

• Amalia Cerrito (University of Trento), “Diseases, Defects, and Anomalies in the Embryological Process: Albert the Great and Virtus formative”

• Keagan Brewer (Independent scholar), “Taking Care, Taking Control: Women’s Health-Care in the German Vernacular Translations of Ps.-Albert’s Secrets of Women”

• Irven M. Resnick (University of Tennessee - Chattanooga), “Animals as Natural Physicians and Sources of Health”

For additional information. please visit the event website: https://www.college-uaruhr.de/news-events/events/albert-the-great-health-disease-disability