Date: Thursday, June 16, 2011, 6:00pm

Chapter: New York, NY, in co-sponsorship with New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW)

Speaker: Dr. Miguel Sanchez

Location:  Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW/NYU), 15 East 84th Street (between 5th and Madison Avenues), New York, New York 

FREE TO THE PUBLIC. R.S.V.P. REQUIRED: Please reply to info@arceny.com

Description: Paleopathology studies of Ancient Egypt are a unique tool to understand not only the medical aspects of the time, but also provide a window to that society in general. Historians frequently accept medical analysis of mummified remnants or translation of medical texts at face value. However different explanations are seldom discussed and questionable findings reach the Egyptology literature as gospel. Sometimes it takes years for an alternative interpretation to reach the community of historians which may have pursued a line of research guided by the medical analysis.

A series of case studies will be used to highlight how epidemiology, radiography and histopathology can be a great asset and sometimes a hindrance. Venereal diseases in Ancient Egypt, accidents and theories of royal deaths will be discussed.

About the Speaker: Dr. Miguel A. Sanchez is Chief of Pathology at Englewood Hospital and MC where he is also Director of the Leslie Simon Breast Care Center. He holds professorial appointments at both The Mount Sinai School of Medicine and NYU, and has been a member of the Paleopathology Group of the International Academy of Pathology and the Paleopathology Association for over 30 years. Dr. Sanchez has lectured around the World on the role of the Humanities in the learning of Medicine, primarily Opera and disease and Ancient Egyptian Medicine. Next season he will be working with the University of Memphis team under Dr. Suzanne Onstein in the analysis of the mummified findings at TT 16.