Approaches to Ancient Medicine
The Beehive, Newcastle University
22-23 August 2005
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Programme
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Monday 22 August
10.45-11.30 Registration and coffee
11.30-12.00 John E. SISKO (College of New Jersey): Cognitive circuitry in the Hippocratic Peri diaites and Plato’s Timaeus
12.00-12.30 Jim HANKINSON (University of Texas, Austin): Diocles of Carystus on causes in medicine
12.30-13.00 Roberto POLITO (Milan): Asclepiades of Bithynia’s medico-philosophical theory of the soul and its relationship to Epicurean philosophy
13.15-14.15 Lunch in the Courtyard Restaurant (ground floor)
14.30-15.15 Elizabeth CRAIK (University of St. Andrews) & Rebecca FLEMMING (King’s College London): Prognosis and prophecy in classical medicine
15.15-15.45 Brooke HOLMES (Princeton University): Rethinking the prognostic symptom in Hippocratic medici
15.45-16.15 Robert ALESSI (Université de Poitiers / CNRS Médecine Grecque): hysiognomical statements in the Corpus Hippocraticum
16.15-16.45 Tea/Coffee
16.45-17.15 Jennifer CLARKE KOSAK: (Bowdoin College): Aelius Aristides and the male experience of disease
17.15-17.45 Patricia BAKER (University of Kent): Establishing perceptions of disabilities in the classical world through the archaeological record
17.45-18.45 Shorter presentations
by
Jennifer MANLEY (University of Queensland): The carer in
the Roman world: Master and slave interactions
John SCARBOROUGH (University of Madison, Wisconsin):
On the new translation of Dioscorides
Robert ARNOTT (University of Birmingham): Chrysokamino,
occupational health and the earliest medicines on Crete
18.45-20.00 Reception in the Shefton Museum of Greek Art, Armstrong Building
20.15- Dinner
Tuesday 23 August
9.00-9.30 Lesley DEAN-JONES (University of Texas, Austin): A representation of uterine fumigation on an Attic skyphos
9.30-10.00 Ralph JACKSON (British Museum, London): The Rimini Domus ‘del chirurgo’
10.00.10.30 Samuel KOTTEK (Hebrew University, Jerusalem): “Look at a doctor’s reasonings”: Philo Judaeus on physicians
10.30-11.00 Coffee
11.00-11.30 Caroline PETIT (University of Exeter): Pseudo-Galen’s Introductio sive medicus and the history of medicine
11.30-12.00 Inna Kupreeva (King’s College, London): Internal senses: late Greek sources of medieval theories
12.00-12.30 Peter PORMANN (Warburg Institute, London): Melancholy and madness in medieval Bagdad: Between Greek theory and Arabic practice
12.30-13.00 Shorter presentations
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Julie LASKARIS (University of Richmond, Virginia): Drug synonyms
and the transmission of pharmaceutical knowledge
Barbara ZIPSER (Wellcome Trust Centre at UCL): The
medical work of Iohannes Archiatrus - commentary or translation?
13.15-14.30 Lunch in the Courtyard Restaurant (ground floor)
14.30 Departure
