'Más allá de la belleza: la modernidad de la medicina griega'. XXXIV Ciclo de Conferencias de Otoño

The conference 'Más allá de la belleza: la modernidad de la medicina griega' takes place on Thursday 1 October 2026 at 18:30 at the Museo de San Isidro. Los Orígenes de Madrid, Plaza San Andrés, 2, Madrid. It forms part of the XXXIV Ciclo de Conferencias de Otoño and is free to attend. The talk looks at medicine as developed in ancient Greece, based on rational observation, clinical reasoning and ethics, and shows how many of its advances in surgery, pharmacology, anatomy and epidemiology anticipated fundamental principles of modern medicine. The speaker is Jesús de la Villa Polo of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Óscar Martínez García, president of the board of the Delegación de Madrid de la SEEC, presents.