H. King 2001 provides a short introduction to the subject; while Nutton 2003 is a detailed and comprehensive work, it is daunting for the beginner and despite its appearance as a textbook it contains much that remains controversial. Van der Eijk et al. 1995 is a very useful collection of essays on a range of topics, demonstrating different approaches to ancient medicine. Those interested in women’s diseases will find useful for Greek material Dean-Jones 1994, Demand 1994 and H. King 1998; for Roman material, much less studied in this field, Flemming 2003. Roman medicine is covered by Jackson 1988 and now also by Cruse 2003; both make considerable use of archaeological materials, but the most innovative work on this front is that of Baker (e. g. 2004). Lloyd 1979 and 1983 set the agenda in terms of locating ancient medicine within a wider social and cultural context; Lloyd 2004 is recommended as a set of essays on key themes which also gives the most important primary sources. Medicine from the patient’s point of view was a topic that developed in the 1980s but took some time to find its place in studies of the ancient world. Perkins 1995 looked at why the sources allow us to look at this topic more effectively for the second century ad, and H. King 1998 includes an attempt to link this theme to the wider sociological literature of chronic pain. For those interested in the subsequent fortunes of the ancient medical texts, W. Smith 1979 remains a very important study of the way in which Galen’s own views have influenced the history of medicine, online at Www. bium. univ-paris5.fr/amn/Hippo2.pdf, while Cunningham 1997 and French 2003 set the ancient materials within a wider context of the history of medicine. English translations of the main Hippocratic writings can be found in the Loeb Classical Library.
Useful websites:
Medicina Antiqua which includes articles on a range of medical topics: Www. ucl. ac. uk/~ucgajpd/medicina%20antiqua The Asclepion, created for teaching by Nancy Demand: Www. indiana. edu/~ancmed/into. HTM
“Greek Medicine,” National Library of Medicine, originally part of an exhibition, with links to rare printed editions of the ancient texts: Www. nlm. nih. gov/hmd/greek/index. html
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