Médecine, musées et communication scientifique au XIXe siècle

Medicine, Museums, and Science Communication in the Nineteenth Century 

Call for papers

Hosted by the International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (INCSA)

Satellite Conference at the Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen, 20 July 2026

The International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (INCSA) invites proposals for a satellite conference to be held on 20 July 2026 at the Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen. This one-day event takes place in conjunction with the INCSA 2026 bi-annual conference in Washington, D.C. The satellite conference will be held in a partially hybrid format, with participation possible both in person at the Medical Museion and online. The day will conclude with an keynote by Katherine Ott and Lilla Vekerdy of the Smithsonian Institution.

The INCSA 2026 conference is organized around the themes of Revolution, Revelation, and Reconciliation, with a focus on the nineteenth century. This satellite event engages these broader themes through a focused exploration of medicine, medical museums, and science communication. Situated within a medical museum, the conference foregrounds questions of how medical knowledge was communicated to the public through objects, images, exhibitions, and other interpretive practices, including how difficult, contested, or ethically challenging histories are presented and interpreted for contemporary audiences.

The nineteenth century was marked by significant transformations in medicine and the life sciences. New clinical practices, experimental cultures, institutional forms, and visual traditions reshaped understandings of the body, disease, health, and healing. These developments were communicated beyond professional communities through museums, exhibitions, lectures, popular publications, and material collections. Medical museums in particular functioned as spaces where scientific knowledge, public education, cultural values, and experiences of pain, harm, and vulnerability intersected.

We invite papers that explore the communication of medicine and the life sciences in the nineteenth century, with particular attention to museums and other public facing institutions. Contributions may consider how medical knowledge was translated into objects, images, narratives, and displays, how audiences engaged with these forms, and how museums functioned as sites for negotiating authority, education, cultural meaning, and the legacies of medical practices in the present.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Medical museums, collections, and exhibitions in the nineteenth century
• The visual and material culture of medicine and the life sciences
• Public medicine, popular science, and medical education
• Practices of collecting, classifying, and displaying medical objects
• Communication of medical risk, uncertainty, and expertise
• Medicine, museums, and imperial or transnational contexts
• Ethical questions and controversy surrounding medical display
• Gender, race, class, and the body in medical communication
• The legacies of nineteenth century medical museums and science communication

We welcome proposals from scholars, curators, museum professionals, historians, educators, and researchers working across disciplines. Comparative, interdisciplinary, and practice oriented perspectives are encouraged.

Presentations may be delivered in English or Danish.

Submission guidelines

Abstracts of up to 300 words should clearly outline the proposed paper’s argument, sources, and relevance to the conference themes. Please include a short biographical note of up to 100 words.

Deadline for abstract submissions is 31 March 2026. Decisions regarding acceptances will be communicated shortly thereafter.

Submission portal: https://forms.gle/n3L5gkycWXnegcrD6

Conference details
Date: 20 July 2026
Venue: Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen + online
Languages: English and Danish



Confirmed keynote presentation by Katherine Ott and Lilla Vekerdy

Understanding 19th Century Embodiment Through Medical Material Culture

This virtual component of the conference is a live stream from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, featuring 19thcentury medical instruments from the collection. Dr. Ott will explore the sensory world of human health as experienced by medical practitioners and those seeking care that is revealed through the study of the objects they used.

Dr. Katherine Ott is a curator in the Division of Medicine and Science at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. She is the author or editor of three books and has published widely on the history of medicine, the history of disability, and the use of material culture. Dr. Ott has worked at the museum for over twenty years and collected a range of artifacts, from artificial skin and assistive devices to hypodermic syringes, veterinary instruments, and acupuncture needles.

Lilla Vekerdy has been the head of the Special Collections Department at the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives since 2008, where she oversees rare materials in 16 library research centers, and also serves as the curator of Physical Sciences Rare Books. She earned master’s degrees in Literature & Linguistics as well as in Library Sciences in Budapest, Hungary in 1984, and completed her doctoral coursework in Medieval and Renaissance History at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri in 2005. Her research interest and publications are in the history of science and medicine, as well as in rare book and manuscript studies, and often cover the overlay of both realms.

Contact Information


Nanna Katrine Lüders Kaalund

Contact Email
nanna.kaalund@sund.ku.dk

URL
https://in-csa.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Copenhagen_Satellite-Conference_2…

Minorités diabolisées

Minorités diabolisées ? Construire l’autre dans l’Europe médiévale

Appel à communications

Journée d’étude CUSO médiévale - 19 mai 2026, Université de Neuchâtel

« Otherness offered the reader or beholder an ambiguous representation, a deeply equivocal
image of social meanings contrary to the concept of clear division or firm limit. Precisely
because alterity, I argue, was not always reducible to the terms of the self-same, perceptions
of the same in the different gave way to perceptions of the different in the same. In the
images of alterity […], the transformative power of otherness reveals the extent to which
social and individual bodies continually interchange with the world across porous
boundaries. » – UEBEL Michael, « Introduction: The Uses of Medieval Alterity », in :
Ecstatic Transformation: On the Uses of Alterity in the Middle Ages, New York : Palgrave
Macmillan US, 2005, p. 2.

Dans l’Europe médiévale, la construction des normes sociales s’accordait à l’autorité du
christianisme. En effet, le discours théologique occupait une place prépondérante parce qu’une
grande majorité du savoir médiéval – philosophique et scientifique – était produit dans un contexte
religieux, mais également parce que la recherche, constituée d’une élite intellectuelle chrétienne
mâle, englobait la quasi-totalité des connaissances du monde. Pour asseoir son pouvoir grandissant,
l’Église s’oppose à d’autres groupes troublant un ordre social idéalisé, ces autres établis comme leurs
opposants : considérés comme des communautés minoritaires dans les sources, ils peuvent être des
groupes religieux, mais également sexuels ou de genre, ou encore raciaux. Cette lutte contre l’altérité
se diffuse dans la culture par le biais de textes ou d’images. Comment sont désignés et caractérisés
ces autres ? Pourquoi minoriser certains groupes en particulier ? La thématique de l’autre peut être
déclinée de bien des façons, en questionnant par exemple la définition de l’autre à travers le Moyen
Âge. Comment se construit-il durant l’Antiquité tardive ? Est-ce que l’autre est toujours le même
durant l’entièreté du Moyen-Âge ? Cette journée d’étude sera consacrée à une approche
interdisciplinaire autour de l’autre imaginé par les discours occidentaux dominants : sa construction,
son image, sa considération, sa transmission dans la culture et sa réception dans l’Europe médiévale.

Les doctorant·e·s des sciences humaines et sociales (historien·ne·s, historien·ne·s de l’art,
historien·ne·s de la littérature, historien·ne·s des religions, anthropologues, ethnologues, etc…)
travaillant sur la période médiévale sont donc encouragé·e·s à proposer des communications sur
les thématiques suivantes :

• Les groupes sexisés (par exemple les femmes, personnes intersexes, homosexuel·le·s, personnes transgenres, prostitué·e·s, …)
• Les groupes sociaux racisés (les personnes non-blanches)
• Les communautés religieuses (par exemple les hérétiques, cathares, sarrazins, musulmans, juifs, polythéistes…)

Les communication dureront 20 à 25 minutes et seront suivies d’une discussion commune puis une
table ronde avec les deux intervenants invités : Dr. Clovis Maillet (EHESS) et Prof. Frédéric Amsler
(UNIL). Les propositions de communications devront être envoyées avant le 1er avril 2026 à
l’organisateur·ce de la journée, à savoir Inès Rieille (ines.rieille@unine.ch). Chaque candidature
devra comprendre un résumé de la communication (env. 300 mots), ainsi qu’un CV académique
synthétique (1 page maximum).

Bourses de la bibliothèque de Yale

Research Travel Grant at Yale's Medical Historical Library 

Call for applications

The Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University is now accepting applications for this fellowship/grant opportunity to research its extensive collections. This award—of up to $2,000—is for one week of research. The deadline for submissions is Sunday, April 26th, 2026.

The Medical Historical Library, located in New Haven, Connecticut, holds one of the country’s largest collections of rare medical books, journals, prints, photographs, and pamphlets. Special strengths are the works of Hippocrates, Galen, Vesalius, Boyle, Harvey, Culpeper, Priestley, and S. Weir Mitchell, and works on anatomy, anesthesia, and smallpox inoculation and vaccination. The Library owns over fifty medieval and renaissance manuscripts, Arabic and Persian manuscripts, and over 300 medical incunabula. The notable Clements C. Fry Collection of Prints and Drawings has over 10,000 fine prints, drawings, and posters from the 15th century to the present on medical subjects. Although the Historical Library does not house the official archives of the Medical School, it does own a number of manuscript and archival collections, most notably the Peter Parker Collection, parts of the papers of Harvey Cushing, John Fulton diaries and notebooks, and collections on medical activism. The Library also owns The Stanley B. Burns M.D. Historic Medical Photography Collection; an extensive Smoking and tobacco advertising collection; the Robert Bogdan collection of disability photographs and postcards; medical imagery from popular publications donated by Bert Hansen, Ph.D; and smaller collections of patent medicine ephemera from noted collector William Helfand.

The 2026-2027 travel grant is available to historians, medical practitioners, and other researchers who wish to use the collections of the Medical Historical Library https://library.medicine.yale.edu/historical. There is a single award of up to $2,000 for one week of research during the academic fiscal year July 1, 2026 - June 30, 2027. Funds may be used for transportation, housing, food, and photographic reproductions. The award is limited to residents of the United States and Canada. Applicants need to submit a completed application form, curriculum vitae and a description of the project including the relevance of the collections of the Historical Library to the project, and two references attesting to the particular project. Preference will be given to applicants beyond commuting distance to the Historical Library. Applications are due by April 26th, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. An application form can be found on our website: https://library.medicine.yale.edu/historical/research/grants-fellowships/gyorgyey-simbonis/

Additional information about the Library and its collections may be found at: https://library.medicine.yale.edu/historical

Contact Information

Melissa Grafe, Ph.D
John R. Bumstead Librarian for Medical History
Head of the Medical Historical Library
Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Yale University
333 Cedar Street
New Haven, CT 06510

Contact Email
historical.library@yale.edu

URL
https://library.medicine.yale.edu/historical/research/grants-fellowships/gyorgy…

Bourse Stanley B. Burns

Stanley B. Burns M.D. Fellowship for the Study of Medical and Postmortem Photographic History at Yale 
 

Call for applications



The Medical Historical Library of the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University is pleased to announce its fourth annual Stanley B. Burns M.D. Fellowship for the Study of Medical and Postmortem Photographic History, which supports the study of the history of medical and postmortem photography at Yale. This fellowship maximizes the research potential of the Stanley B. Burns, MD, Historic Medical Photography Collection and the Stanley B. Burns, MD, collection of postmortem and memorial photography and ephemera, along with related visual collections at the Medical Historical Library. Dr. Burns donated his postmortem and memorial photography collection in 2025, which is now included under the parameters of the fellowship.

Burns—an ophthalmologist, research professor of Medicine and Psychiatry, and professor of Medical Humanities at New York University—began collecting historic photography in 1975 and amassed more than a million images that he curated in multiple books, articles, and exhibitions.

There is a single award of up to $2,000 for one week of research during the academic fiscal year July 1, 2026 - June 30, 2027. Funds may be used for transportation, housing, food, and photographic reproductions. The award is limited to residents of the United States and Canada. Applicants should send a completed application form, including a curriculum vitae and a description of the project including the relevance of the collections of the Historical Library to the project, and two references attesting to the particular project. Preference will be given to applicants beyond commuting distance to the Historical Library. Applications are due by April 26th, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. EST. An application form can be found on our website: https://library.medicine.yale.edu/historical/research/fellowships-grants/burns-fellowship.

Applications are welcome both from scholars who utilize traditional methods of archival and bibliographic research and also from those who pursue creative, interdisciplinary, and nontraditional approaches to conducting research.

Additional information about the Library and its collections may be found at: https://library.medicine.yale.edu/historical

Contact Information

Melissa Grafe, Ph.D
John R. Bumstead Librarian for Medical History
Head of the Medical Historical Library
Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Yale University
333 Cedar Street
New Haven, CT 06510

Contact Email

historical.library@yale.edu

URL

https://library.medicine.yale.edu/historical/research/grants-fellowships/burns-…

Rousseau, philosophie et médecine

Rousseau, philosophie et médecine. Circulation et usages des savoirs médicaux au XVIIIe siècle

Colloque international 



avec le soutien de l’ED433, du Laboratoire SND, de l’Initiative Europe, de l’INSPE de Paris, de l’Académie nationale de médecine et du FIR

Entrée libre (sur inscription pour le 2 avril à l'adresse suivante : rousseaumedecine2026@gmail.com

Jeudi 2 et Vendredi 3 avril 2026




Jeudi 2 Avril 2026 : Sorbonne (54, rue Saint-Jacques), Salle des Actes

9h : Accueil des participants

9h15 : Ouverture du colloque : Théo Courdavault et Anne Morvan

 

Session 1 : « Rousseau parmi les médecins »

Présidence : Christophe Martin (Sorbonne Université, CELLF)

9h30 : Martin Rueff (Université de Genève) : Starobinski, médecin de Rousseau

10h15 : Rudy Le Menthéour (Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvanie) : Jean-Jacques Rousseau, hygiéniste

Pause café

11h15 : Jean-Luc Guichet (Université de Picardie Jules Vernes, CERCLL) : Poison, empoisonnement et contre-poison : de la dénonciation du vin empoisonné à l’empoisonnement de l’image de Rousseau comme anti-médecin.

Pause déjeuner

Session 2 : « État des lieux et questions de méthode »

Présidence : Théo Courdavault (Sorbonne Université, SND)

14h15 : Dario Galvão (Université de Namur) : De l’anatomie animale à l’anatomie de l’esprit : analogie et méthode expérimentale chez David Hume

15h : Gilles Barroux (CPGE, Paris) : Coup d’œil sur l’état de la médecine au XVIIIe siècle : le prisme de l’Encyclopédie

Pause café

Session 3 : « Vivre, penser et écrire la maladie »

Présidence : Jean-Christophe Abramovici (Sorbonne Université, CELLF)

16h15 : Marco Menin (Université de Turin) : Qui diagnostique le moi sensible ? L’écriture de soi de Rousseau face à Tissot

17h : Vincent Barras (Université de Lausanne) : Retour sur la correspondance médicale entre Jean Jacques Rousseau et Samuel Auguste Tissot, 1762-1769

17h45 : Philippe Casassus (Université USPC) : Jean-Jacques Rousseau et les médecins : comment sa maladie a fait évoluer sa réflexion ?

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Vendredi 3 avril 2026 : Bibliothèque de l’Académie nationale de médecine (16 rue Bonaparte)

9h : Accueil des participants

9h15 : Ouverture de la journée : François Léger (Académie nationale de Médecine)

Session 4 : « Soigner l’enfance »

Présidence : Gabrielle Radica (Université de Lille, STL)

9h30 : Emmanuelle Berthiaud (Université de Picardie Jules Vernes, CHSSC) : Sentir et souffrir : Rousseau, les médecins et la douleur de l’enfant au XVIIIe siècle

10h15 : Anne Morvan (INSPE de Paris / Université de Lille, STL) : La croissance de la 'servitude privée' dans les livres I et II de l’Émile

Pause café

11h15 : Maxime Ilou (ENS de Lyon, IHRIM) : L’éducation physique de l’enfant : Rousseau et la médecine de Le Camus

Pause déjeuner

Session 5 : « Nature, vie et sensibilité »

Présidence : Céline Spector (Sorbonne Université, SND)

13h30 : Théo Courdavault (Sorbonne Université, SND) : Émile, corps vivant : de la croissance du corps à l’expansion du coeur

14h15 : Laetitia Simonetta (CPGE, Neuilly-sur-Seine) : La conscience de soi : Rousseau et le vitalisme de l'école de Montpellier

Pause café

Session 6 : « Sexe, genre et médecine »

Présidence : Rudy Le Menthéour ((Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvanie)

15h30 : Sacha Marignan (Université Paris Nanterre, IREPH) : Différence des sexes et théories médicales dans le livre V de l'Émile

16h15 : Angela Hunter (University of Arkansas at Little Rock) / Rebecca Wilkin (Pacific Lutheran University) : Idées séminales : Louise Dupin face à la physiologie de son temps
 

Responsable :
Anne Morvan et Théo Courdavault

Poste à la Osler Library

Librarian at the Osler Library of the History of Medicine

Call for applications

Apply

Deadline to apply: April 6, 2026, 23:59pm

Please refer to the How to Apply for a Job (for External Candidates) job aid for instructions on how to apply.

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Assistant Librarian or Associate Librarian (tenure track)
Duration: three years, with possibility of renewal
Salary minimum: salary commensurate with experience 


The Librarian provides a wide range of library and information services, drawing on the Osler Library’s extensive holdings, including 40,000 modern monographs and journals, more than 75,000 rare book titles, approximately 300 meters of archival material, several hundred medical artifacts, and a substantial collection of prints. Using these collections, the Librarian supports teaching, learning, research, and outreach activities at the Osler Library of the History of Medicine. The role includes contributing to comprehensive collections management and curation, as well as highlighting the collections through outreach, exhibitions, and communications. The Librarian fosters a collaborative environment and ensures that library services are responsive, inclusive, and aligned with institutional goals. In partnership with the Head Librarian of the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, the Librarian works to develop, preserve, and promote the library’s holdings.


THE McGILL LIBRARIES

Located in Montréal, one of the world’s great multicultural and multilingual cities, McGill University is internationally recognized for its excellence as a leading institution of higher education and research. For nearly 200 years, through the work of dedicated people, McGill has been breaking ground in diverse fields and contributing solutions to some of the world’s most significant issues. McGill is also the most internationally diverse research-intensive university in Canada, with over 32% of its students coming to McGill from more than 150 countries. The University systematically appears on the annual list of the best employers in Montreal.

The McGill Libraries are committed to delivering high-quality, innovative information products, services and programs that focus on client needs and support the University’s strategic mission and directions. The McGill Libraries proactively supports the teaching, learning and research needs of faculty and students to fulfill McGill’s strategic mission of excellence as a research-intensive, student-centred university.

The McGill Libraries has the largest collection in Quebec and is one of Canada’s largest academic libraries with over six million monograph titles and 150,000 e-journals and databases. The Libraries are a member of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Bureau de coopération interuniversitaire (BCI), the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), and the HathiTrust Digital Library.
 

INFORMATION FOR PROSPECTIVE STAFF

Information about the University and the McGill Libraries can be found on the University’s web site. As a tenure stream appointee, the successful candidate is expected to satisfy the requirements in the Regulations Relating to the Employment of Librarian Staff.


DUTY STATEMENT

Primary Purpose of Position

The assist the provision of a range of library and information services and collections to support teaching, learning, research, and outreach activities.

Duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Provide a range of in-person and remote library and information services to support teaching, learning, research and outreach activities; create guides to support user engagement and resource discovery around special collections.
• Curate and make accessible the Osler Library’s diverse holdings, which consist of rare books, manuscripts, archives, and artifacts, as well as a modern circulating collection.
• Develop and maintain communication links and liaise with the Department of Social Studies of Medicine to ensure library and information needs are understood and met.
• Assist in development of history of medicine collections.
• Contribute to fundraising and development by working with the Head Librarian on grant applications and donor engagement.  
• Help with organizing and planning activities that highlight collections: e.g., visits and workshops; exhibitions at McGill, or beyond, including external museum loans; communications (e.g., publications and social media).
• Work in partnership with other Libraries and University staff and sections, as well as external groups, on specific projects.
• Coordinate and support the work of library staff in designated service areas, fostering collaboration and ensuring service quality; assign and supervise projects for student employees and interns.
• Contribute to resource description for entry into content management systems (Sofia discovery tool and/or Access to Memory (AtoM). Supervise staff in the same.
• Assist in ensuring that proper conservation and preservation standards are followed for all formats and media types.
• Serve on various library, faculty, and university committees and represent the Osler Library on external committees.
• Maintain awareness of current trends in the library, education, and information environments.
• Engage in scholarly activities and professional service consistent with University Regulations. 
• Advance the equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility as well as reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples through the McGill University Libraries' services and within the Libraries as a workplace.
• The duties listed above are representative and not exhaustive; responsibilities may evolve in response to institutional and library needs.

​Reporting relationship


This position reports to the Head Librarian, Osler Library of the History of Medicine .
 

SELECTION CRITERIA


Required:

• A Master’s Degree in Library or Information Studies (MLIS, MIS, or MI)   
• Experience in an academic, special, or research library, or equivalent relevant experience, particularly in rare books, special collections, or archives.
• Excellent organizational, user service, and teamwork skills.
• High level of professionalism, commitment to the organization and its mission, and ability to work flexibly in a changing environment.
• Ability to understand and respond to priorities and trends in the library and university environments.
• Fluency in oral and written English is required. McGill University is an English-language university where day-to-day duties may require English communication both verbally and in writing.
• Understanding of how to teach in a culturally sensitive way.
• Demonstrated commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility of services or work environment.

Desired:

• Experience working with archival collections; understanding of archival concepts. 
• Academic background in history (particularly history of medicine), humanities, or medical sciences. 
• Strong preference for French language skills; other languages considered an asset.
• Experience creating and installing exhibits on historical themes. 
• Ease delivering educational classes, workshops, and tours to a variety of audiences. 
• Experience or demonstrated interest in supervising student employees and in coordinating workflows.
• Active participation in professional organizations.
• Familiarity with copyright and/or privacy legislation as required for consultation, reproduction, and dissemination of collections. 

APPLICATION PROCEDURE

Applications should address the above selection criteria, be accompanied by a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, and the names and addresses of three referees.  


*** Applicants are encouraged to indicate any accommodation needs related to job duties



We anticipate conducting in-person interviews between May 25 and June 5, 2026.



Before applying, please note that to work at McGill University, you must be both authorized to work in Canada and willing to work in the province of Quebec at the campus where the position is based / located.

McGill University is an English-language university where most teaching and research activities are conducted in the English language, thereby requiring English communication both verbally and in writing.


McGill University is committed to equity and diversity within its community and values academic rigour and excellence. We welcome and encourage applications from racialized persons/visible minorities, women, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, ethnic minorities, and persons of minority sexual orientations and gender identities, as well as from all qualified candidates with the skills and knowledge to engage productively with diverse communities.

At McGill, research that reflects diverse intellectual traditions, methodologies, and modes of dissemination and translation is valued and encouraged. Candidates are invited to demonstrate their research impact both within and across academic disciplines and in other sectors, such as government, communities, or industry.

McGill further recognizes and fairly considers the impact of leaves (e.g., family care or health-related) that may contribute to career interruptions or slowdowns. Candidates are encouraged to signal any leave that affected productivity, or that may have had an effect on their career path. This information will be considered to ensure the equitable assessment of the candidate’s record.

McGill implements an employment equity program and encourages members of designated equity groups to self-identify. It further seeks to ensure the equitable treatment and full inclusion of persons with disabilities by striving for the implementation of universal design principles transversally, across all facets of the University community, and through accommodation policies and procedures. Persons with disabilities who anticipate needing accommodations for any part of the application process may contact, in confidence, accessibilityrequest.hr@mcgill.ca.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply; however, in accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.

Alcméon de Crotone

Alcmaeon of Croton between Medicine and Philosophy


Medicina nei Secoli: Journal of History of Medicine and Medical Humanities, Vol. 37 No. 3 (2025)


Editor
Valentina Gazzaniga



Published: 2025-12-29


Articles

Alcmaeon of Croton between Medicine and Philosophy
Marco Cilione, Francesca Gambetti

Seed from the brain (Alcmaeon of Croton 24 A 13 D-K1) Sexual and cognitive development from childhood to adolescence in Greek and Roman antiquity
Marco Cilione

Knowledge and Perceptions between Alcmaeon and Parmenides
Francesca Gambetti

Again on fragment 4 D.-K. Alcmaeon and Galen compared
Sabrina Grimaudo

New Remarks on the Relationship Between Alcmaeon and the Egyptian Medical Tradition: A Comparative Analysis of Theophrastus' De Sensibus Chapters 25-26 and Column 56 of the Shabaka Stone (Bm Ea 498)
Francesco Lopez

Dualism in Alcmaeon of Croton: some considerations
Lorenzo Perilli

From the Polis to the Body Alcmaeon’s ἰσονομία and the notion of ἁρμονία across Philolaus, Archytas, and Aristoxenus
Antonietta Provenza

From Empirical Observations to Learned Curiosities: Alcmaeon’s Theory of Goat Respiration
Theofanis Tsiampokalos

Congetturare in un mondo pieno di segni L’attualità della distinzione tra semeîon (segno debole) e tekmḗrion (segno necessario) e del “congetturare” di Alcmeone per una teoria inferenziale della semiotica e della medicina contemporanee
Andrea Velardi

Entheastiká. Medical accounts of religious madness in the Anonymus Parisinus
Sandro Passavanti

Giambattista Messedaglia (1810-1845) : The History and Literary Legacy of a Petrifier
Sofia Bollini , Alberto Zanatta

The apology for bloodletting in the portrait of an eighteenth-century Florentine surgeon
Donatella Lippi , Costanza Cucci, Elisa Zucchini, Marcello Picollo

Médecine préhistorique, antique et médiévale

Prehistoric, Ancient and Medieval Medicine: New Perspectives and Challenges for the Twenty-First Century

 
Tomáš Alušík, Pavla Alušíková Dostalíková, Milena Melfi, Conan T. Doyle, Rupert Breitwieser (editors)
 

Hardback Published on: 26/03/2026
Publisher: Archaeopress
ISBN: 9781805832591
Number of pages: 306
Dimensions: 205 x 290 mm
Languages: English

This volume contains a total of 21 chapters on prehistoric, ancient, and medieval medicine, presented from various perspectives. After a general introduction outlining the directions, possibilities, and methods of research in archaeology and the history of medicine in the period under review and arguing for the necessity of an interdisciplinary approach, there follow 20 chapters presenting specific research topics. These chapters cover a wide chronological span, from the Stone Age to more or less the end of the Middle Ages, and geographical extent, from Western Europe through the Mediterranean (including Egypt and the Levant) to the Near East (including modern Iraq). The papers in this volume are divided into three sections, roughly spanning prehistory, the Classical era and the Middle Ages respectively.