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Medicine and Markets: Essays on Ancient Medicine in honour of Vivian Nutton de Rebecca Flemming

Medicine and Markets: Essays on Ancient Medicine in honour of Vivian Nutton

Editat de Rebecca Flemming, Laurence Totelin
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 ian 2020
For almost half a century, Vivian Nutton has been a leading figure in the study of ancient (and less ancient) medicine. The field itself has been revolutionised over that time. In this volume distinguished colleagues and former students develop, in his honour, key themes of his ground-breaking scholarship. Spanning from the Bronze Age to the Digital Age, involving the cult of Artemis and the corpuscular theories of Asclepiades of Bithynia, the medicinal uses of beavers and the cost of health-care and wet-nursing, case-histories, remedy exchange and the medical repercussions of political assassination, this book has at its centre the pluralism and diversity of the ancient medical marketplace. The lively interplay between choice and competition, unity and division, communication and debate, so notable in Vivian Nutton's foundational vision of the world of classical medicine, is richly examined across these pages.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781910589786
ISBN-10: 1910589780
Pagini: 250
Dimensiuni: 243 x 163 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: The Classical Press of Wales (UK)
Colecția Classical Press of Wales
Locul publicării:United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Rebecca Flemming is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History in the Classics Faculty of the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Jesus College, UK. A specialist in the society and culture of the Roman Empire, she has published widely on classical medicine, gender and sexuality, both together and separately. Her monograph Medicine and the Making of Roman Women: Gender, Nature and Authority from Celsus to Galen came out from Oxford University Press in 2000; the volume she co-edited with Nick Hopwood and Lauren Kassell, Reproduction: Antiquity to the Present Day was published by Cambridge University Press in 2018.Laurence Totelin is Reader in Ancient History at Cardiff University, UK. She specialises in the history of Greek and Roman pharmacology, botany and gynaecology. Her works include Hippocratic Recipes: Oral and Written Transmission of Pharmacological Knowledge in Fifth- and Fourth-Century Greece (Brill, 2009) and, with botanist Gavin Hardy, Ancient Botany (Routledge, 2016). She is currently working on the trade in medicines in the first centuries of the Roman Empire, on which she is preparing the volume Retail Therapy (Routledge).

Cuprins

Acknowledgements List of contributors Abbreviations and sigla Introduction: Vivian Nutton and the rise of ancient medicine, Rebecca FlemmingPART I: Prices and Exchange1. The cost of health: rich and poor in imperial Rome, Véronique Boudon-Millot2. Healing correspondence: letters and remedy exchange in the Graeco-Roman world, Laurence M. V. Totelin3. Dioscorides on beavers, John Scarborough4. The cost of a baby: how much did it cost to hire a wet-nurse in Roman Egypt?, Antonio Ricciardetto and Danielle GourevitchPART II: Pluralism and Diversity5. A return to cases and the pluralism of ancient medical traditions, G.E.R. Lloyd6. Malaria, childbirth and the cult of Artemis, Elizabeth Craik7. Medicine, markets and movement in the Bronze Age Mediterranean: a Mycenaean healing deity at Hattusa-Bogazköy, Robert Arnott8. Antistius Medicus and the ides of March, Ann Ellis Hanson9. Notes on three Asclepiadean doctors, David Leith10. Hippocratic whispers: telling the story of the life of Hippocrates on the internet, Helen KingBibliography Bibliography of Vivian Nutton's works Index

Recenzii

This is an extremely diverse collection ... As a result, historians of medicine will find most, if not all, of the chapters diverting and thought-provoking.
It is certainly a new valuable acquisition in the field of the history of ancient medicine, showing that it was not only a matter of scientific theories and of practical techniques, but also a living part of the society, its economy, and its culture.