Wednesday, March 30 2016, 2pm 250 Zell B. Miller Learning Center Dr. Mattern will be discussing "Structure and Meaning in the Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital (New England Journal of Medicine.)" Dr. Mattern teaches graduate and undergraduate classes in World History and in the history of Greece, Rome, ancient Egypt, marriage, disease, medicine, women, and law. Her most recent book is The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire (Oxford University Press 2013). It is a social-historical biography of the ancient physician Galen, a cultural icon whose works were the basis of western medicine until the Renaissance. Sponsored by: Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute; department of classics; GRU-UGA Medical Partnership; department of history; Willson Center for Humanities and Arts
