La grande aventure du savoir médical
When: 13.10.2026 00:00
Where: 48.849172, 2.356212
Organizer: Admin
From Greece to Rome, from Rome to Alexandria, from Alexandria to Baghdad, from Baghdad to Padua… medical knowledge uses the book as the main tool, the book also testifies to extraordinary continuity of medical ethics, especially in its relationship with the patient. Medical texts remain alive, as evidenced by numerous annotated and commented works of physicians of several generations, sometimes in different languages.
Between the VIIe and XVIe centuries AD the arabo-musulman world deeply marks medicine as a major evolution of both concepts and techniques. This long period opens and closes with a linguistic revolution: the shift from Greek to Arabic, and then from Arabic to Latin, two privileged moments of reinterpretation and debate.
In the five themes of the exhibition route – translate, transmit, discuss, experiment, treat – luxuriously illuminated manuscripts, incunabula and printed editions with engravings occupy the center of the presentation, alongside objects used in pharmacopoeia and surgery. Parallel to the heritage collection, digital animations invite visitors to explore the geography of this medical adventure, its great figures, their theories about the body, their consultation practices, their recommendations for maintaining good health, the preparation of compound medicines…
The exhibition aims to awaken an awareness of medical knowledge as a product of centuries-long mixing of peoples and influences, promoting tolerance and openness to the other in our times of identical closures and certainties.
Tags: medicine, science, history, medieval
Source: https://www.paris.fr/evenements/la-grande-aventure-du-savoir-medical-105917
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