Approaches to Ancient Medicine
Approaches to Ancient Medicine
supported by the Wellcome Trust and the Classical Association
University of Exeter
22 – 23 August, 2011
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CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
The Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter
DAY 1: Monday 22nd August 2011
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch and registration
Xfi Centre, Streatham Campus
Conference Presentations:
Xfi Lecture Theatre
Session 1 - Hippocrates
13.00 – 13.30 Andreas Serafim (University College, London)
Stasis as disease in the human body and the body politic.
13.30 – 14.00 Chiara Thumiger (von Humboldt University)
Some remarks on mental insanity in the medical texts.
14.00 – 14.30 Roberto Lo Presti (von Humboldt University)
"For sleep is in some way an epileptic fit” (Somn.Vig. 3, 457 a9-10): the association of sleep with epilepsy between Aristotle, Aristotelianism, and the medical tradition"
14.30 – 14.45 Short break
Session 2 - Galen: Texts and Narratives
14.45 – 15.15 Brooke Holmes (Princeton University)
The Sympathetic Cosmos and the Purposeful Body in Galen’s On Natural
Faculties.
15.15 – 15.45 Daniel King (Merton College, Oxford)
The Narrative Structure of Medical Knowledge: Galen, the language of pain, and
diagnosis in ancient medicine.
15.45 – 16.15 Caroline Petit (Institute of Classical Studies, University of
London)
Galen’s style: the problem of authenticity in the Galenic corpus.
16.15 – 16.45 Tea and Coffee, served in Xfi Conference Room
Session 3 - Classical Athens
16.45 – 17.15 George Kazantzidis (St Hugh’s College, Oxford)
‘Re-negotiating the origins of black bile: evidence from a comic fragment
(Kassel-
Austin VIII adesp. fr.1105.76)’.
17.15 – 17.45 Aileen Das (University of Warwick)
Plato and Galen on the “Ensouled” Plant: Plat.Tim. 3.2.
Session 4 Early Modern
17.45 – 18.15 Helen King (The Open University)
The early modern Phaethousa: transformations of a Hippocratic case history.
18.15 – 18.45 Lisa Jarman (University of Exeter)
Changing attitudes to Galen: the role of ancient authority in early modern
surgery.
EVENING
19.30 Conference Dinner in Holland Hall
DAY 2: Tuesday 23rd August 2011
Session 5 Under the Empire
09.30 – 10.00 David Leith (Jesus College, Cambridge)
‘Pliny the Elder on Asclepiades.’
10.00 – 10.30 Georgia Petridou (von Humboldt University)
Medicine as a Mysterium? Exploring the esoteric nature of Asklepios’
medicinal philosophy and experience in Aelius Aristeides’ Hieroi
Logoi.
10.30 – 11.00 Lindsay Penner (University of Calgary)
My Name is Doctor Asclepiades: Medical Workers in Latin Inscriptions.
11.00 – 11.30 Tea and Coffee, served in Xfi Conference Room
Session 6 - Late Antiquity
11.30 – 12.00 Olga Jarman (St. Petersburg, The State Pediatric Academy)
Ancient Physicians as ‘earthly gods’ in Medieval Byzantine poetry.
12.00 – 12.30 Caroline Macé (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Knowledge of medicine in Greek Christian Questions-and-Answers
literature.
12.30 – 13.00 Matteo Martelli (von Humboldt University)
The Syriac tradition of Galen’s On Simple Drugs, 9th book.
13.00 – 14.30 Lunch - served in Xfi Conference Room
14.30 Departure
Kind regards
Robert Leigh
Kind regards
Robert Leigh