Aga Khan University’s 6th Sense Forum: Connection between music and medicine

KARACHI: There is a connection between the history of art, especially music, and the history of medicine that is often ignored but should be taught to students of medicine.

This was the core argument presented by distinguished photographer, explorer and cardiothoracic surgeon Dr Amjad Hussain at a lecture titled ‘Of Billroths and Beethovens’ in the Aga Khan University auditorium on Monday evening.

Dr Hussain peppered his talk with anecdotes and played pieces of music that kept engaged the audience, who had turned up in a relatively small number. He said during the course of his presentation, divided into three sections, that he would try and connect the subjects of medicine and music by touching upon the lives of Austrian surgeon Christian A. Theodore Billroth (1829-1894) and the legendary music composer Beethoven. In between he brought up the names of his teachers who did not merely teach and practise medicine but had other interests (art, music and literature) as well.

via Connection between music and medicine – Newspaper – DAWN.COM.

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