Medicine and Markets

Essays on Ancient Medicine in honour of Vivian Nutton

Rebecca Flemming (Anthology Editor) , Laurence Totelin (Anthology Editor)

Medicine and Markets

Essays on Ancient Medicine in honour of Vivian Nutton

Rebecca Flemming (Anthology Editor) , Laurence Totelin (Anthology Editor)

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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.

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

Product details

Published	31 Jan 2020
Format	Hardback
Edition	1st
Extent	250
ISBN	9781910589786
Imprint	Classical Press of Wales
Dimensions	Not specified
Publisher	The Classical Press of Wales

Anthology Editor

Rebecca Flemming

Rebecca Flemming is is the inaugural A.G. Leventi…

Anthology Editor

Laurence Totelin

Laurence Totelin is Reader in Ancient History at C…

This 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
It is certainly a new valuable acquisition in the field of the history of ancient medicine, showing that it was not only a matter of scientific theories and of practical techniques, but also a living part of the society, its economy, and its culture.

Classical Press of Wales