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New articles by internationally recognised specialists on Greek and Roman medicine, in honour of the doyen of the subject, Vivian Nutton.

Table of Contents

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

About the Author

Rebecca 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 a volume Retailing Therapy (Routledge).

Reviews

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*