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‘ORGANS: Form, Function and Bodily Systems in Greco-Roman Medicine’
Sponsored by the Society for Ancient Medicine and Pharmacy (SAM) SAM is an affiliated group of
the American Philological Association.
Accepted papers will be presented at a SAM panel at the APA at the 2015 meetings, which will be
held January 8-11, 2015 in New Orleans, LA. Panelists must be members of the APA at the time of
presentation.
Largely hidden from sight, the organs of the body have always offered fascination as well as
frustration. We sense their function in the course of sustaining a biological life, but can for the
most part only infer the details of their processes. In antiquity this alienation of the self from the
material components of the human body and their interactions was especially acute, and so many
of the ancient medical texts are clearly groping for ways to understand the role of individual
organs in health and disease, both physiological and psychological. We invite papers for this
session on all aspects of the organs in Greco-Roman medicine, and particularly encourage
contributions with cultural and philosophical dimensions, as well as clinical, therapeutic and
physiological.
Please send an abstract of 500-600 words of your proposed paper (20 mins.) by e-mail to Ralph
M. Rosen (rrosen AT sas.upenn.edu). Deadline for submission of abstracts is March 1, 2014.
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