Les textes médicaux grecs et leur public

Greek Medical Texts and their Audience: Percetion, Transmission, Reception

Symposium

Friday 12th - Saturday 13th December 2014


SW 1.09, Somerset House East Wing

Strand Campus, King's College London

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/eventrecords/2014-2015/CHS/gmtconference.aspx


This event is open to all and free to attend, but booking is required via our Eventbrite page:

http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/greek-medical-texts-their-audience-perception-transmission-reception-tickets-12512187289


Any enquiries please email the organisers: petros.bouras-vallianatos@kcl.ac.uk or sophia.xenofontos@glasgow.ac.uk


Friday 12 December


14.00 Registration


14.15 Introduction


14.30 Session 1

Stavros Kouloumentas (Berlin) Alcmaeon & his addresses: revisiting the preface of a treatise On Nature

Jordi Crespo Saumell (Cagliari) The Anonymus Londinensis & the paideia of the Imperial Period


Michiel Meeusen (Leuven) Solving medical problems 101: an interpretation of Ps.-Alexander of Aphrodisias' Med. puzz. 1, Praef.in light of medical school practice


16.00 Break


16.30 Session 2

Lesley Dean-Jones (UT Austin) Extending the family, the protreptic aim of some Hippocratic treatises


Chiara Thumiger (Berlin) The multiple audiences of the Hippocratic Epidemics


Laurence Totelin (Cardiff) Gone with the wind: laughter & the audience of the Hippocratic treatises


Daniel Bertoni (Miami) A popular history of medicine



Saturday 13 December


09.00 Registration


09.30 Session 3

Antoine Pietrobelli (Reims) Galen's books & friends


Sophia Xenophontos (Glasgow) Philosophical protreptic in Galen's Exhortation to the Study of Medicine: construction of authority & audience response


Maria Luisa Garofalo (Rome) The De Propriis Placitis: evolution & systematisation of medical doctrines in Galen's medical & philosophical testament


Dimitris Karambelas (London) Greek medicine & the law: juristic readings & reception of medical texts in the Imperial Age


11.30 Break


12.00 Session 4


Uwe Vagelpohl (Warwick) The user-friendly Galen: Hunayn ibn Ishāq & the Syro-Arabic translation tradition


Elvira Wakelnig (Vienna) Arabic De Natura Hominis-treatises: their tradition, scope & audience


Katherine van Schaik (Boston, MA) Text-less medical instruction? The evolving role of texts in an experiential profession


Joshua Olsson (Cambridge) Medical tetrads in Medieval Islam


14.00 Lunch


15.30 Session 5

Petros Bouras-Vallianatos (London) Reading Galen in Byzantium


Christophe Erismann (Lausanne) Medicine & philosophy according to Meletius' De Natura hominis


Erika Gielen (Leuven) Physician versus physician: a comparison of On the Constitution of Man by Meletius and On the Nature of Man by Leo Medicus


17.00 Concluding remarks


17.30 Drinks reception