Medicine Grand Rounds- Professor Heather Webb presents: “A History of Cardiac Sensation”

Heather Webb (Ph.D. Stanford 2004) is a Professor of Medieval Italian Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on medieval ideas of physiology and emotion. Her books explore changing ideas of bodies and depictions of the human over time, including The Medieval Heart (Yale, 2010), Dante’s Persons; An Ethics of the Transhuman (Oxford, 2016), and her most recent publication, Dante, Artist of Gesture (Oxford, 2022).