Vivian Nutton

Vivian Nutton
Born	1943

Vivian Nutton FBA (born 1943) is a British historian of medicine.

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). 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.

Selected publications

• John Caius and the Manuscripts of Galen, Cambridge: Cambridge Philological Society, 1987
• From Democedes to Harvey: Studies in the History of Medicine, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 1988
• Medicine at The Courts of Europe 1500-1837, London: Routledge, 1990
• The Western Medical Tradition: 800 BC to Ad 1800, with Lawrence I. Conrad and Michael Neve, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995
• The History of Medical Education in Britain, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1995
• Galen, On My Own Opinions, (trans.) Akademie Verlag, 1999
• Renaissance Studies: Medicine in the Renaissance City, (Ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001
• The Unknown Galen, London: Institute of Classical Studies, 2002
• Ancient Medicine, London: Routledge, 2005
• Pestilential Complexities: Understanding Medieval Plague, London: Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2008
• Galen: On Problematical Movements, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011
• Method of Medicine, Volume I: Books 1-4 (Loeb Classical Library), Cambridge, Mass: Harvard Univ. Press, 2011