Tunahan Durmaz
European University Institute, Florence
Of Bodily Fluids, Madness, and Fever: Many Ways of Grappling with Diseases in the Ottoman Healing Domain (1640–1691)
Mr. Durmaz is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at European University Institute, Florence. Prior to his doctoral studies, he earned his BA in History with a minor in Architecture from Middle East Technical University and an MA in History at Sabancı University.
His research interests include social, cultural, and political aspects of disease and illness in the early modern Ottoman world. Emerging at the intersection of histories of knowledge and history of medicine, his dissertation project “Of Bodily Fluids, Madness, and Fever: Many Ways of Grappling with Diseases in the Ottoman Healing Domain (1640–1691)” explores the ways of knowing and understanding diseases in the Ottoman world from the 1640s to the 1690s.