Resources
To suggest resources that can be added to this list, please contact societyancientmedicine@gmail.com
Re-Orienting Ancient Medicine Courses - Resources
Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (www.oracc.org)
Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashi twitter (twitter.com/moudhy)
Maddelena Rumor (work on pharmacology, dreckapotheke (https://case.academia.edu/MaddalenaRumor)
JoAnn Scurlock, Sourcebook of Ancient Medicine (https://secure.aidcvt.com/sbl/ProdDetails.asp?ID=061536P&PG=1&Type=BL&PCS=SBL); ACLS e-book: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.32652
Markham Geller, Ancient Babylonian Medicine (https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Ancient+Babylonian+Medicine%3A+Theory+and+Practice-p-9781119025528)
Ulrike Steinert (ed), Systems of Classification in Pre-Modern Medicine (https://www.routledge.com/Systems-of-Classification-in-Premodern-Medical-Cultures-Sickness-Health/Steinert/p/book/9781138571129); OPEN ACCESS available
Alexander Jones and Liba Taub (ed), Cambridge History of Science: Ancient Science (https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/history-science-and-technology/cambridge-history-science-volume-1?format=HB)
Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee (ed), A Companion to Ancient Near Eastern Languages (https://www.wiley.com/en-us/A+Companion+to+Ancient+Near+Eastern+Languages-p-9781119193296)
Francesca Rochberg, Before Nature (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo24663151.html)
Henry Cowles, The Scientific Method (https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674976191)
Erica Couta-Ferreira, work on children and women's health care (https://uni-heidelberg.academia.edu/MEricaCoutoFerreira)
Ulrike Steinert, work on classifications and gynecology (https://uni-mainz.academia.edu/UlrikeSteinert)
David Bloor on Azande witchcraft and logic from Knowledge and Social Imagery (pp. 138–146) (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/K/bo3684600.html)
Bruno Latour "On the Partial Existence of Existing and Nonexisting Objects" in Lorraine Daston (ed) Biographies of Scientific Objects (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo3616478.html)
PUBLICATIONS AND WEBSITES
Fluid Matters (online publication)
https://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/n7034/html/00-title/index.html
Crip Antiquity (disability activism in ancient studies)
The Recipes Project
https://recipes.hypotheses.org/
ΦΥΣΙΣ ΚΑΙ ΦΥΤΑ: On Nature and Plants in Ancient Greece
https://voices.uchicago.edu/phusiskaiphuta/
Gardens of the Roman Empire - Archeological Database
https://roman-gardens.github.io/
Greco-Roman Antimicrobial Minerals Project (GR-AMS)
TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
Corpus Medicorum Graecorum/Latinorum (online editions available)
http://cmg.bbaw.de/?set_language=en
Online Galen texts:
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Galen
Online Arabic translations of Galenic texts:
http://cmg.bbaw.de/epubl/online/publisupplor.html
The Syriac Galen Palimpsest
https://digitalgalen.net/
Online texts for Arabic Medicine
http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/sina/
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL RESOURCES
Corpus Medicorum Graecorum/Latinorum Bibliographies of Hippocrates and Galen
http://cmg.bbaw.de/online-publications/hippokrates-und-galenbibliographie-fichtner
Heidi Wolf-Marx: Zotero Bibliography for Roman Medicine
https://www.zotero.org/groups/170998/lateancientmedicine
Also accessed through this webpage: https://remedhe.com/bibliographic-resources/
Diotima Bibliographies on:
The Body
https://diotima-doctafemina.org/bibliographies/the-body/
Ancient Medicine and Gynecology
https://diotima-doctafemina.org/bibliographies/ancient-medicine-and-gynecology/
Contraception and Abortion:
https://diotima-doctafemina.org/bibliographies/contraception-and-abortion/
MANUSCRIPTS AND OBJECTS
Wellcome Library Digital Collections
https://wellcomelibrary.org/collections/digital-collections/
Duke University History of Medicine Collection
https://guides.library.duke.edu/c.php?g=289566&p=1930316
Greek Medicine and Philosophy (The British Library: accessible essay and images of manuscripts)
https://www.bl.uk/greek-manuscripts/articles/the-transmission-of-greek-philosophy-and-medicine
Surgical Instruments from Ancient Rome, University of Virginia
http://exhibits.hsl.virginia.edu/romansurgical/
Hygieia: Health, Illness, Treatment from Homer to Galen – Museum of Cycladic Art, Exhibition
https://cycladic.gr/en/page/iasis
Medicine in Classical Antiquity (The Met: accessible essays and various images)
https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/medi/hd_medi.htm
The Thymele at Epidauros, digital recreation
https://www.theranpress.org/the-thymele-at-epidauros
University of Chicago - OI
Tebtynis Papyrus Database
http://www.papirologia.unipr.it/ricerca/tebtynis.html
Ekdosis Typesetting Tool for multilingual critical editions
http://www.ekdosis.org
This webinar series was part of the course ARCH 1765: Pandemics, Pathogens, and Plagues in the Greek and Roman Worlds taught by Tyler Franconi throught the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology at Brown University. All talks have been posted on youtube and are available to the public. For full descriptions, and further information, visit the class website.
History, Biology and the Antonine Plague, Kyle Harper (University of Oklahoma)
Watch a recording of Kyle Harper’s talk here: https://youtu.be/DDQ-RJenT3c
The Economic Impact of the Antonine Plague, Andrew Wilson, University of Oxford
Watch a recording of Andrew Wilson’s talk here: https://youtu.be/RKjKi6qKNHI
Quisquamne regno gaudet? Politics and Plague in Seneca’s Oedipus, Hunter Gardner, University of South Carolina
Watch a recording of Hunter Gardner’s talk here: https://youtu.be/F3S9PrrzbUA
Palaeogenetic Insights into the First Plague Pandemic (541-750), Marcel Keller, University of Tartu
Watch a recording of Marcel Keller’s talk here: https://youtu.be/nspgvzMgFaM
