Victoria Sweet MD

Victoria Sweet MD

Physician, Author, Historian
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SLOW MEDICINE

THE WAY TO HEALING

A radical new understanding of how medicine is best practiced, from the award-winning author of God’s Hotel.

Over the years that Victoria Sweet has been a physician, “healthcare” has replaced medicine, “providers” look at their laptops more than at their patients, and costs keep soaring, all in the ruthless pursuit of efficiency.

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Appearances

  • Friday, April 30th, EDT: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
    Verdant Medicine: Hildegard’s Resonant Apothercary
    Musical Ensemble Alkemie Performs Verdant Medicine: Hildegard’s Resonant Apothecary, a Livestream Performance of Music by Medieval Composer and Apothecary Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), Followed by Roundtable Conversation on Plant-based Pharmacology  On Friday, April 30th from 2-4pm EDT, specialists in medieval music Alkemie present a livestream performance of Verdant Medicine: Hildegard’s Resonant Apothecary featuring works by composer, abbess, and apothecary Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) that focus on her healing use of plants. The musical performance will be immediately followed by a roundtable conversation with the musicians and with three noted scholars, Dr. Victoria Sweet (Rooted in the Earth, Rooted in the Sky: Hildegard of Bingen and Premodern Medicine), Dr. Alisha Rankin (Panaceia's Daughters: Noblewomen as Healers in Early Modern Germany), and Dr. Minji Lee (“Woman’s Body In-Between: The Holy and Monstrous Womb in Medieval Medicine and Religion”) and moderated by Johns Hopkins historian of medicine Dr. Mary Fissell. Created in conjunction with Johns Hopkins Program in Arts, Humanities, & Health and supported by the Fordham Center for Medieval Studies, this musical event will include hand-made “Intersensory Program Cards” that pair Hildegard’s music, texts, and associated images with materials that audiences can literally smell, taste, touch, and hear. The cards will be mailed to audience members who register by April 22nd.     For more information and tickets for Verdant Medicine: Hildegard’s Resonant Apothecary,
    Johns Hopkins Program in Arts Humanities and Health: Zoom
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About Dr. Sweet

Dr. Sweet is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and a prize-winning historian with a Ph.D. in history. She practiced medicine for over twenty years at Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco, where she began writing.

GOD’S HOTEL

In God’s Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine Dr. Sweet lays out her evidence—in stories of her patients and her hospital—for some new ideas about medicine and healthcare in this country.

Other Work

After she discovered Hildegard of Bingen, a twelfth-century mystic and nun who also wrote a practical medical text, Dr. Sweet completed a Master’s degree in the history of medieval medicine (Earth, Air, Water, Fire:The Medicine of Hildegard of Bingen), and then a PhD (Body as Plant, Doctor as Gardener)

https://www.victoriasweet.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Slow-Medicine-Victoria-Sweet-MD-PhD-STIR-2016.mp4

Dr. Sweet at the Guggenheim Museum on December 15, 2016, addressing healthcare executives.

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