# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Elaine Van Dalen - Common Airs, Individual Remedies
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 29 Sep, 2026 at 12:00 pm – Tue, 29 Sep, 2026 at 01:00 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: Explores why tenth-century Arabic medical treatises explained health and disease using environmental terms.About this EventArabic medical treatises of the tenth century explained both endemic and epidemic diseases in environmental terms. Physicians such as Abū Bakr al-Rāzī, al-Majūsī, Muḥammad al-Tamīmī, and al-Masīḥī described various kinds of corruption of air and water, the risks these posed to different populations, and the means by which physicians could protect patients through changes in regimen, household hygiene, and, more rarely, interventions in the surrounding environment. This talk explores how these medical ideas related to the environmental practices of ʿAbbasid cities. Bringing medical treatises into dialogue with chronicles, market manuals, and travel literature, it examines the relationship between theories of disease, physicians’ recommendations, and historical approaches to urban hygiene and health, asking to what extent learned medicine intersected with environmental practice.Event SpeakerElaine Van Dalen, Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies at Columbia UniversityEvent InformationFree and open to the public; registration required. Please email scienceandsociety@columbia.edu with any questions.Hosted by the Center for Science and Society at Columbia University.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/new-york/elaine-van-dalen-common-airs-individual-remedies/100001995120098923
- **Event Categories**: health-wellness, art, literary-art, science-fair
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 0
- **Event Highlights**: 
  - Duration: 1 hour
  - Location: Fayerweather Hall, Room 513
  - Languages: English

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## Event venue details

- **city**: New York
- **state**: NY
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Fayerweather Hall, Room 513
- **lat**: 40.8082408
- **long**: -73.9603477
- **full address**: Fayerweather Hall, Room 513, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Elaine Van Dalen - Common Airs, Individual Remedies being held?
  - **A:** Elaine Van Dalen - Common Airs, Individual Remedies takes place on Tue, 29 Sep, 2026 at 12:00 pm to Tue, 29 Sep, 2026 at 01:00 pm at Fayerweather Hall, Room 513, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Elaine Van Dalen - Common Airs, Individual Remedies?
  - **A:** Elaine Van Dalen - Common Airs, Individual Remedies is organized by The Center for Science and Society.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Elaine Van Dalen - Common Airs, Individual Remedies is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in New York, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Elaine Van Dalen - Common Airs, Individual Remedies sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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