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OverviewThe study of ancient medicine has been revolutionised over the last half century and Vivian Nutton has been a leading figure. Here distinguished colleagues and former students offer essays in his honour, developing themes from his ground-breaking scholarship. The book explores the diversity of the ancient medical marketplace. From the Bronze Age to Classical Antiquity (with glimpses forward to the Digital Age), from the cult of Artemis to the corpuscular theories of Asclepiades of Bithynia, from the medicinal uses of beavers to the cost of healthcare and wet-nursing, and from remedy exchange to the medical repercussions of political assassination. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Laurence Totelin , Rebecca Flemming , Laurence Totelin , Rebecca Flemming (Cambridge University, UK)Publisher: Classical Press of Wales Imprint: Classical Press of Wales Weight: 0.582kg ISBN: 9781910589786ISBN 10: 1910589780 Pages: 250 Publication Date: 28 March 2019 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 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 IndexReviewsThis is an extremely diverse collection ... As a result, historians of medicine will find most, if not all, of the chapters diverting and thought-provoking. * Classics for All * Author InformationRebecca 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). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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