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TitleOld herbals, new readers: 29th annual Bishop Lecture
PublisherRutgers University. Libraries
Date Created2015-04-09
Extent1 streaming video file (63 minutes) : digital, sound, color.
DescriptionThe annual Louis Faugères Bishop III lecture, which typically features diverse topics on book and manuscript collecting, printing history, and the use of rare books and manuscripts by scholars.
In its twenty-ninth iteration, Karen Reeds draws on examples of early herbals in the Libraries’ rare book collections to examine the continuing appeal of these medical books across the centuries. Why is the ancient Greek physician Dioscorides still cited as an authority on the uses of medicinal plants? What do the markings and dried plants in early printed herbals tell us about the ways doctors, patients, pharmacists, gardeners, and botanists have used these books from the Renaissance to our own day? What accounts for the resurgence of interest in herbals and the practice of herbal medicine in recent years?
NoteFilmed at the Teleconference Lecture Hall of the Scholarly Communications Center, Alexander Library, Rutgers University on April 9, 2015.
GenreNonfiction films, Filmed lectures
LanguageEnglish
Data Life Cycle Event(s)
Type: Conference
Label: Old herbals, new readers
Date: 2015-04-09
Sponsor: Rutgers University. Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives
Data Life Cycle Event(s)
Type: Exhibition
Label: Art of Healing : Early Herbals from Rutgers University Libraries Collections
Date: 2015-04-09 - 2015-07-31
Sponsor: George F. Smith Library of the Health Sciences (Newark, N.J.)
Sponsor: Rutgers University. Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives
Sponsor: Rutgers University. School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
CollectionRutgers University Libraries General Collection
Organization NameRutgers University. Libraries
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
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