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Ancient Medicine in Its Socio-Cultural Context, Volume 1
Papers Read at the Congress Held at Leiden University, 13-15 April 1992
Series: - Clio Medica Online, Volume: 27
- Clio Medica, Volume: 27
This collection of papers â some of which written by the worldâs leading specialists in the area of ancient medicine â aims at promoting an integrated approach to medical theory and practice in classical antiquity. Questions of health and disease are considered in their relation to the social, intellectual, moral and religious dimensions of the ancient world. The papers focus on the socio-cultural setting of the experience of pain and illness, the different reactions they provoked and the importance that was attached to this experience in literature, religion and philosophy.
The first volume offers articles (from an archaeological, historical and philological point of view) dealing with social, institutional and geographical aspects of medical practice. It also has a special section on medical views on women, children and sexuality, and on female medical activity.
The second volume focuses on the ways in which religious and magical beliefs influenced the experience of, and the attitude towards, illness and medical practice. It also deals with the relations of medicine with philosophy, and the other sciences and with the variety of linguistic and textual forms in which medical knowledge was expressed and communicated.
Contributors to the first volume are Lawrence J. Bliquez, Simon Byl, Armelle Debru, Nancy Demand, Danielle Gourevitch, Ann Ellis Hanson, H.F.J. Horstmanshoff, Ralph Jackson, Eva C. Keuls, Jukka Korpela, Ernst Künzl, Gabriele Marasco, Attilio Mastrocinque, Karin Nijhuis, Vivian Nutton, H.W. Pleket, Heikki Solin, Peter Van Minnen, and Juliane C. Wilmanns.
The first volume offers articles (from an archaeological, historical and philological point of view) dealing with social, institutional and geographical aspects of medical practice. It also has a special section on medical views on women, children and sexuality, and on female medical activity.
The second volume focuses on the ways in which religious and magical beliefs influenced the experience of, and the attitude towards, illness and medical practice. It also deals with the relations of medicine with philosophy, and the other sciences and with the variety of linguistic and textual forms in which medical knowledge was expressed and communicated.
Contributors to the first volume are Lawrence J. Bliquez, Simon Byl, Armelle Debru, Nancy Demand, Danielle Gourevitch, Ann Ellis Hanson, H.F.J. Horstmanshoff, Ralph Jackson, Eva C. Keuls, Jukka Korpela, Ernst Künzl, Gabriele Marasco, Attilio Mastrocinque, Karin Nijhuis, Vivian Nutton, H.W. Pleket, Heikki Solin, Peter Van Minnen, and Juliane C. Wilmanns.
âThe skill and high standards of the editors have transformed what could have been merely another dreary volume of congress proceedings into a very useful work. The volumes have been handsomely produced, and their contents are made more accessible by the addition of a comprehensive general index as well as indices of both literary sources and inscriptions and papyri. ⦠a valuable collection of essays that constitutes a significant contribution to the study of Greco-Roman medicine.â in: Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. 72, Issue 2 (1998)
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of participants
References and abbreviations
PART 1: SOCIAL, INSTITUTIONAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL ASPECTS OF MEDICAL PRACTICE
The medical meeting place
Vivian NUTTON
The social status of physicians in the Graeco-Roman world
H.W. PLEKET
L'introduction de la médecine grecque à Rome: une dissension politique et idéologique
Gabriele MARASCO
Greek doctors and Roman patients: a medical anthropological approach
Karin NIJHUIS
Les démonstrations médicales à Rome au temps de Galien
Armelle DEBRU
Galen and his patients
H.F.J. HORSTMANSHOFF
Aromatarii, pharmacopolae, thurarii et ceteri. Zur Sozialgeschichte Roms
Jukka KORPELA
Die sogenannten Berufsnamen antiker Ãrzte
Heikki SOLIN
Les médecins des Séleucides
Attilio MASTROCINQUE
Medical care in late antiquity
Peter van MINNEN
Der Arzt in der römischen Armee der frühen und hohen Kaiserzeit
Juliane C. WILMANNS
The composition of Roman medical instrumentaria as an indicator of medical practice: a provisional assessment
Ralph JACKSON
Gynecology in Pompeii. Lawrence J. BLIQUEZ
L'aire géographique des médecins hippocratiques
Simon BYL
PART 2: WOMEN, CHILDREN AND SEXUALITY
Comment rendre à sa véritable nature le petit monstre humain?
Danielle GOUREVITCH
The Greek medical texts and the sexual ethos of ancient Athens
Eva C. KEULS
Monuments, midwives and gynecology
Nancy DEMAND
Paidopoïïa: Metaphors for conception, abortion, and gestation in the Hippocratic Corpus
Ann Ellis HANSON
Ein archäologisches Problem: Gräber römischer Chirurginnen
Ernst KÃNZL
Acknowledgements
List of participants
References and abbreviations
PART 1: SOCIAL, INSTITUTIONAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL ASPECTS OF MEDICAL PRACTICE
The medical meeting place
Vivian NUTTON
The social status of physicians in the Graeco-Roman world
H.W. PLEKET
L'introduction de la médecine grecque à Rome: une dissension politique et idéologique
Gabriele MARASCO
Greek doctors and Roman patients: a medical anthropological approach
Karin NIJHUIS
Les démonstrations médicales à Rome au temps de Galien
Armelle DEBRU
Galen and his patients
H.F.J. HORSTMANSHOFF
Aromatarii, pharmacopolae, thurarii et ceteri. Zur Sozialgeschichte Roms
Jukka KORPELA
Die sogenannten Berufsnamen antiker Ãrzte
Heikki SOLIN
Les médecins des Séleucides
Attilio MASTROCINQUE
Medical care in late antiquity
Peter van MINNEN
Der Arzt in der römischen Armee der frühen und hohen Kaiserzeit
Juliane C. WILMANNS
The composition of Roman medical instrumentaria as an indicator of medical practice: a provisional assessment
Ralph JACKSON
Gynecology in Pompeii. Lawrence J. BLIQUEZ
L'aire géographique des médecins hippocratiques
Simon BYL
PART 2: WOMEN, CHILDREN AND SEXUALITY
Comment rendre à sa véritable nature le petit monstre humain?
Danielle GOUREVITCH
The Greek medical texts and the sexual ethos of ancient Athens
Eva C. KEULS
Monuments, midwives and gynecology
Nancy DEMAND
Paidopoïïa: Metaphors for conception, abortion, and gestation in the Hippocratic Corpus
Ann Ellis HANSON
Ein archäologisches Problem: Gräber römischer Chirurginnen
Ernst KÃNZL