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Medical Edinburgh and Empire
Join us at the Physicians’ Gallery as our three speakers – Simon Buck, Roger Jeffery, and Theeba Krishnamoorthy – present on three aspects of Edinburgh, medicine and colonial legacies.
When the Edinburgh Medical School was established 1726, it became the Empire’s main educator for colonial medical personnel. While the connection provided an opportunity for students from countries living under imperial rule to train in Edinburgh, the graduates used their medical training to enforce imperial health policies and to maintain the health and economic viability of an enslaved workforce.
Dr Simon Buck is an historian of slavery and medicine in Scotland and the Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He has worked with NHS Lothian, the University of Edinburgh, and the Scottish Episcopal Church on major public history projects concerning Scotland’s legacies of slavery and empire.
Roger Jeffery is Professor Emeritus of Sociology of South Asia, University of Edinburgh, where he worked from 1972-2024. His many academic publications drew on a series of funded research projects and focused on public health and health policy, especially maternal and reproductive health, access to medicines, and the organisation of clinical trials in South Asia.
Dr Theeba Krishnamoorthy is a decolonial public health scholar, educator, and physician whose work explores the intersections of medicine, identity, and colonial history. Their research has focused on recovering the hidden life hidden life histories of early South Asian women doctors of the British Empire, examining how race, gender, and empire shaped medical education and professional practice.
Professor Catherine Labinjoh is a Consultant Cardiologist in NHS Forth Valley and honorary clinical professor at the University of Stirling. Since 2022 she has been the national clinical lead for Realistic Medicine, concerned with personalised care, shared decision making and reducing harm, waste and inequity.
When the Edinburgh Medical School was established 1726, it became the Empire’s main educator for colonial medical personnel. While the connection provided an opportunity for students from countries living under imperial rule to train in Edinburgh, the graduates used their medical training to enforce imperial health policies and to maintain the health and economic viability of an enslaved workforce.
Dr Simon Buck is an historian of slavery and medicine in Scotland and the Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He has worked with NHS Lothian, the University of Edinburgh, and the Scottish Episcopal Church on major public history projects concerning Scotland’s legacies of slavery and empire.
Roger Jeffery is Professor Emeritus of Sociology of South Asia, University of Edinburgh, where he worked from 1972-2024. His many academic publications drew on a series of funded research projects and focused on public health and health policy, especially maternal and reproductive health, access to medicines, and the organisation of clinical trials in South Asia.
Dr Theeba Krishnamoorthy is a decolonial public health scholar, educator, and physician whose work explores the intersections of medicine, identity, and colonial history. Their research has focused on recovering the hidden life hidden life histories of early South Asian women doctors of the British Empire, examining how race, gender, and empire shaped medical education and professional practice.
Professor Catherine Labinjoh is a Consultant Cardiologist in NHS Forth Valley and honorary clinical professor at the University of Stirling. Since 2022 she has been the national clinical lead for Realistic Medicine, concerned with personalised care, shared decision making and reducing harm, waste and inequity.
Wednesday 23 September
11 Queen Street Edinburgh EH2 1JQ
18:00-19:00. Free for students (student card required), under 18s (ID card required) and RCPE Fellows or Members.Please email library@rcpe.ac.uk if you are a student, under 18, RCPE Fellow or Member and would like to be added to the attendee list.
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