Eliza Glaze, associate professor of history, delivered two invited research presentations in Italy in October as part of the symposium "Search for the Healthy City IV" hosted by the University of Tennessee's Schools of Medicine and Public Health. The symposium, organized annually by UT's James Bailey, M.D., M.P.H., examined the history of urbanization and health, with a special focus on Italian history from antiquity to contemporary times. The group, which included faculty in public health, medicine and history, studied the Temple of Asclepius at Paestum, Roman baths, the medieval city of Salerno (home to Europe's first school of medicine), the Amalfi coast, and geo-thermal spas on the island of Ischia. Glaze's presentations examined the origins of the medical school at Salerno c. 1050-1225, and the practice of balneotherapies along the Bay of Naples during antiquity and the Middle Ages.
