Inside The Irish Giant:
History, Medicine,
edicine, and the
Performing Arts
Convenor
Friday 27 May: Religion, Science and Commerce
Saturday 28 May: Gigantism, Genetics and History
Dr Claudia Stein (Warwick)
Dr Claudia Stein's (Director of the Warwick Centre for the History of Medicine and convenor of 'Inside the Irish Giant') main
research interests continue to be the world of early modern medicine and science, with a strong interest in visua
visual culture
and medicine. Her current research project 'The Birth of Biopower in Eighteenth-Century
Eighteenth Century Germany' takes her research from
the area of the socio-cultural
cultural construction of early modern diseases (e.g. the French Pox) to the world of eighteenth
eighteenth-century
medicine
For more information please visit our web: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/chm/people/staff/claudia