Nutton says about his lecture:
“Interest in the life of Galen of Pergamum has fluctuated even more than the reputation of his medicine. Renaissance biographers largely abandoned the legendary reconstructions of their medieval predecessors, but it was not until the late nineteenth century that non-medical scholars began to investigate his life in a wider social context. More recent discoveries, epigraphic, archaeological and textual, offer new opportunities for Galenic biography.”

The Schering Stiftung supports the CMG Lecture for the 3rd time because of its objectives to foster public understanding of science and research and to promote the dialogue between science and society.