Ancient Medicine
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Seen on the Classicists list GREEK MEDICAL TEXTS AND THEIR AUDIENCE: PERCEPTION, TRANSMISSION, RECEPTION 12-13 December 2014 Università Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium Sponsored by the A.G. Leventis Foundation. Organised by Sophia Xenophontos (Université Libre de Bruxelles) and Petros Bouras-Vallianatos (King’s College London) Call for papers The idea that every text is meant to…
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From Columbia News: The examination of mental disorders would seem to be the almost exclusive domain of psychiatrists and psychologists, not humanities scholars. Yet William V. Harris, the William R. Shepherd Professor of History, has spent his time in recent years studying his chosen field—the history of ancient Greece and Rome—through the lens of mental…
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10 Incorrect Ancient Greek And Roman Theories About The Body via Listverse.
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The official description: Hippocrates is traditionally seen as the ‘Father of Medicine’. But scholars now doubt whether any of the treatises in the so-called Hippocratic Corpus are in fact by this historical figure. This has not stopped his name – and, by implication, his authority – being attached to various ideas, from medical theories to…
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The intro: A couple of posts ago we featured an interview with Prof. Daniela Manetti who was visiting the Humboldt University of Berlin as part of the research project Medicine of the Mind, Philosophy of the Body. This week we talked to another of the project participants, Dr Georgia Petridou, about her work on the…
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