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Vivian Nutton
British professor and historian of medicine (born 1943)
Vivian Nutton FBA (born 1943)[1] is a British historian of medicine.[2]
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He is Emeritus Professor at the UCL Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London, and is currently the president of the Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance (CSMBR).
Nutton acquired his B.A. in Classics at the University of Cambridge in 1965 and subsequently taught there as a Fellow of Selwyn College (1967–77).[3] He received his Ph.D. in 1970. Since 1977, he has worked at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine as a Lecturer, and since 1993 as Professor. He is a member of several international learned societies and a Fellow of the British Academy.
Since 2015, he has worked at I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (1st MSMU). Nutton's main field of research is the Ancient Greek physician Galen. Beyond that, his work comprises the whole of the ancient history of medicine and its reception history, in particular during the European Renaissance and in the medieval Islamic world.