The Healing Touch
dal 7/7/2005 al 27/11/2005
Segnalato da
7/7/2005
The Healing Touch
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
The exhibition will draw on the collections of the National Galleries of Scotland and medical collections throughout the United Kingdom and Europe and will coincide with the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh's quincentenary celebrations. Around 100 works, including oil paintings, photographs, works on paper, sculpture and case material will tell the story of Scotland's influence on Western medicine.
The Scottish men and women who have played a pioneering role in the history of medicine will be honoured in a major exhibition at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery this summer. The Healing Touch will draw on the collections of the National Galleries of Scotland and medical collections throughout the United Kingdom and Europe and will coincide with the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh’s quincentenary celebrations. Around 100 works, including oil paintings, photographs, works on paper, sculpture and case material will tell the story of Scotland’s formidable influence on Western medicine.
Commanding portraits of figures such as Sir Alexander Fleming, who discovered penicillin; Marie Stopes, founder of the National Birth Control Association; and Joseph Lister, who introduced antiseptics to surgery, will set in context their remarkable contributions to medicine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
From seventeenth-century quacks to medical luminaries, some of the men and women featured in the exhibition have led fascinating lives beyond their medical achievements: such as anatomist Robert Knox who was alleged to have been involved with notorious Edinburgh murderers Burke and Hare, and Dundee doctor David Kinloch who found himself imprisoned by the Spanish Inquisition.
Scotland’s current contribution to medical and biomedical achievement worldwide will be reflected in a remarkable triple portrait of the world-famous oncology unit at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee by Ken Currie and a four-part photographic piece by Wendy McMurdo of members of the Roslin Institute.
Image: Johann Zoffany, William Hunter lecturing at the Royal Academy.
Further information and images from the NGS Press Office
Telephone 0131 624 6325/314/332/247
or
Anita Miller
Press and Information Officer
National Galleries of Scotland
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Edinburgh, EH4 3DE
T: 0131 624 6314
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E: amiller@nationalgalleries.org
PRESS VIEW: Friday 8 July, 11.30am – 1pm
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1 Queen Street, Edinburgh
Admission free