When:
Thursday, May 18, 2017
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM CT
Where: Robert H Lurie Medical Research Center, Searle Seminar Room (Ground Floor), 303 E. Superior, Chicago, IL 60611 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Bryan Morrison
(312) 503-1927
Group: Medical Humanities & Bioethics Lunchtime Montgomery Lectures
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Description:
The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics program presents
A Montgomery Lecture
with
Richard J. Miller, PhD
Alfred Newton Richards Professor
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
The Really Big Rivals
The debate between Luigi Galvani and Alessandro Volta on whether animals were capable of making electricity was one of the most important in the history of science. A newly discovered play by their exact contemporary Richard Brinsley Sheridan describes their intellectual and experimental rivalries.