Medicine and Geology - an exploration
17 November
Monday 17 November (Indoor Meeting): 'Medicine and Geology - an exploration’. Speaker: Albert Benghiat. Albert trained in medicine at Trinity College Cambridge and the Middlesex Hospital London. After a series of junior doctor training posts around the country he became Consultant Oncologist at Derby and subsequently Leicester. In retirement he studied geology at Leicester University and for a time was Associate Lecturer in Geology at the University of Derby until his recent move to Shropshire.
This talk will recount the historical contribution of medical practitioners to the science of geology and go on to explore methodological similarities between the practice of medicine and geology.