Santorio Fellowship
SANTORIO FELLOWSHIP FOR MEDICAL HUMANITIES AND SCIENCE
Fondazione
Comel –
Institutio
Santoriana announces an international scheme entitled to the Italian physician Santorio
Santori (1561-1636), who introduced the quantitative method to medicine and is considered the father of experimental physiology.
Aim
The
fellowship aims at encouraging cooperation amongst scholars across the
Europe and is awarded to early career researchers and PhD students whose
interests in the field of Medical
Humanities (History of Medicine and Biology, History and Philosophy of
Science, History of Ideas, Classics) are particularly strong and well
recorded.
For the academic year 2016-2017, the scheme will support participants of the international conference Humours,
Mixtures and Corpuscles. A Medical Path to Corpuscularism in the Seventeenth Century organised
by Fabrizio Bigotti and Jonathan Barry.
Application process
5
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Santorio Fellowships, worth of 500 euros each, will be offered through means of an application process.
Applicants
should send a title of their report provided with abstract (max. 300
words), CV (max. 2 pages) and a reference letter tosantoriofellowship@
The deadline is 22 February 2017 with successful applications notified in March 2017.
For further details or queries please contact Dr Fabrizio Bigotti (f.bigotti@exeter.ac.uk).