Medicine and Markets in the Graeco-Roman World and Beyond : Essays on Ancient Medicine in Honour of Vivian Nutton

"For almost half a century, Vivian Nutton has been a leading figure in the study of ancient (and less ancient) medicine. The field itself has been revolutionised over that time. In this volume distinguished colleagues and former students develop, in his honour, key themes of his ground-breaking scholarship. Spanning from the Bronze Age to the Digital Age, involving the cult of Artemis and the corpuscular theories of Asclepiades of Bithynia, the medicinal uses of beavers and the cost of health-care and wet-nursing, case-histories, remedy exchange and the medical repercussions of political assassination, this book has at its centre the pluralism and diversity of the ancient medical marketplace. The lively interplay between choice and competition, unity and division, communication and debate, so notable in Vivian Nutton's foundational vision of the world of classical medicine, is richly examined across these pages." -- Provided by the publisher Cover 1 Title 4 Table of Contents 6 Acknowledgements 8 List of Contributors 10 Abbreviations and Sigla 14 Introduction 20 Part 1: Prices and Exchange 32 1. The Cost of Health: Rich and Poor in Imperial Rome 32 2. Healing Correspondence: Letters and Remedy Exchange in the Graeco-Roman World 48 3. Dioscorides on Beavers 68 4. The Cost of a Baby: How Much Did It Cost to Hire a Wet-Nurse in Roman Egypt? 72 Part 2: Pluralism and Diversity 102 5. A Return to Cases and the Pluralism of Ancient Medical Traditions 102 6. Malaria, Childbirth and the Cult of Artemis 118 7. Medicine, Markets and Movement in the Bronze Age Mediterranean 132 8. Antistius Medicus and the Ides of March 144 9. Notes on the Three Asclepiadean Doctors 158 10. Hippocratic Whispers: Telling the Story of the Life of Hippocrates on the Internet 174 Bibliography 192 Bibliography of Vivian Nutton’s Works 218 Index 232 The study of ancient medicine has been revolutionised over thelast half century and Vivian Nutton has been a leading figure.