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John Shaw Billings History of Medicine Society Talk Spotlights the History of the First English Translation of the Ebers Papyrus

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L0016592 G. Ebers (ed.), Papyros Ebers, 1875 Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomeimages.org Reproduction of the Ebers Papyrus Papyros Ebers Georg Ebers Published: 1875 Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Title slide of the March 1, 2023 john Shaw Billings History of Medicine Talk "The First English Translation of the Ebers Papyrus"On March 1, 2023, IU Health's Jane Hartsock, JD, MA, and the IU Center for Bioethics' Colin Halverson, PhD, gave a fascinating lecture on “The First English Translation of the Ebers Papyrus” as part of the John Shaw Billings History of Medicine Society’s Spring 2023 Lecture Series.

In this talk, Hartsock and Halverson examined the convoluted and dramatic history of the Ebers Papyrus, one of the oldest and most complete contemporary perspectives on ancient Egyptian healing practices. They also discussed its “rediscovery” by Edwin Smith and the dramatic societal- and personal-scale forces that thwarted Dr. Carl H. von Klein and Edith Zitelmann's efforts to translate it.

To watch a recording of the lecture, visit: https://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/media/019s06b61s

To find out more about the John Shaw Billings History of Medicine Society, visit: https://library.mednet.iu.edu/history-of-medicine/history-of-medicine-society/