Vivian Nutton FBA (born 1943) is a British historian of medicine. He is Emeritus Professor at the UCL Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London, and president of the Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance (CSMBR).
Education Nutton acquired his B.A. in Classics at the University of Cambridge in 1965 and subsequently taught there as a Fellow of Selwyn College (1967–77).Selwyn College Calendar, 1986/87 He received his Ph.D. in 1970.
Career Since 1977, he has worked at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine as a lecturer, and since 1993 as professor. He is a member of several international learned societies and a Fellow of the British Academy.
Since 2015, he has worked at I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (1st MSMU). Nutton's main field of research is the ancient Greek physician Galen. His work covers ancient history of medicine and its reception history, in particular during the European Renaissance and in the medieval Islamic world.
Selected publications John Caius and the Manuscripts of Galen, Cambridge: Cambridge Philological Society, 1987
From Democedes to Harvey: Studies in the History of Medicine, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 1988 Medicine at the Courts of Europe 1500–1837, London: Routledge, 1990 The Western Medical Tradition: 800 BC to AD 1800, with Lawrence I. Conrad and Michael Neve, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995 The History of Medical Education in Britain, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1995 Galen, On My Own Opinions (trans.) Akademie Verlag, 1999 Renaissance Studies: Medicine in the Renaissance City (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001 The Unknown Galen, London: Institute of Classical Studies, 2002 Ancient Medicine, London: Routledge, 2004 Pestilential Complexities: Understanding Medieval Plague, London: Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2008 Galen: On Problematical Movements, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011 Method of Medicine, Volume I: Books 1–4 (Loeb Classical Library), Cambridge, Mass: Harvard Univ. Press, 2011 Galen: A Thinking Doctor in Imperial Rome, London: Routledge, 2020. Brief description at Routledge website Renaissance Medicine: A Short History of European Medicine in the Sixteenth Century, Abingdon-on-Thames: Routledge, 2022
References