Medicine and Markets in the Graeco-Roman World and Beyond

Essays on Ancient Medicine in Honour of Vivian Nutton

Laurence Totelin, R. Flemming (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

213 Seiten

2020
Classical Press of Wales (Verlag)
978-1-910589-78-6 (ISBN)

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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.

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 a volume Retailing Therapy (Routledge).

Acknowledgements
List of contributors
Abbreviations and sigla

Introduction: Vivian Nutton and the rise of ancient medicine, Rebecca Flemming

PART I: Prices and Exchange

1. The cost of health: rich and poor in imperial Rome, Véronique Boudon-Millot
2. Healing correspondence: letters and remedy exchange in the Graeco-Roman world, Laurence M. V. Totelin
3. Dioscorides on beavers, John Scarborough
4. The cost of a baby: how much did it cost to hire a wet-nurse in Roman Egypt?, Antonio Ricciardetto and Danielle Gourevitch

PART II: Pluralism and Diversity

5. A return to cases and the pluralism of ancient medical traditions, G.E.R. Lloyd
6. Malaria, childbirth and the cult of Artemis, Elizabeth Craik
7. Medicine, markets and movement in the Bronze Age Mediterranean: a Mycenaean healing deity at Hattuša-Bogazköy, Robert Arnott
8. Antistius Medicus and the ides of March, Ann Ellis Hanson
9. Notes on three Asclepiadean doctors, David Leith
10. Hippocratic whispers: telling the story of the life of Hippocrates on the internet, Helen King

Bibliography
Bibliography of Vivian Nutton’s works
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.04.2019
Reihe/Serie	Greece, Rome & Beyond
Verlagsort	Swansea
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	582 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
Themenwelt	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	1-910589-78-0 / 1910589780
ISBN-13	978-1-910589-78-6 / 9781910589786
Zustand	Neuware