Melancholy: A New Anatomy - diet

Dr Philip Burnet, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, explores Robert Burton's ideas of diet and melancholy in the Anatomy of Melancholy (published 1621) and the advances in contemporary research on diet and mental health today.
Part of the Bodleian Libraries' exhibition Melancholy: A New Anatomy reflecting on ideas of mental illness and its cure in the Renaissance and the present day.
Open until 20 March 2022: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event...