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ihe Body in - the History of Medicine”, illuminating for us the way in which ideas about the human body have influenced medical practitioners working to understand and alleviate disease.
Four years ago Dr. Demaitre retired with his wife Dominique to Rappahannock County. He had been teaching Medical History at Fordham University in New York before his retirement, after which he became Visiting Professor in the Humanities in Medicine Program at the University of Virginia. At Charlottesville he continues to teach medical history to graduating medical students.
Dr. Demaitre’s library talk will not be one designed to inform professional doctors, but will show a generally interested person how views of the body have changed through the ages from symbol to object, from temple of the soul to statement of individuality and other such interpretations.
A comparison of some simple images from medical settings illustrates how attitudes toward the body were changing well before our age of technology. The comparison will also stir thoughts about our own outlook.
Dr. Demaitre was born near Bruges in Belgium and he received his first baccalaureate degree in Philosophy form Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. After coming to the United States, he earned his Ph.D. degree in history at City University of New York with a dissertation on the first centuries of the famous medical faculty of Montpellier, France, founded in 1220.
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