Ancient Medicine Seminar

An interdisciplinary research seminar, intended to bring together those inside the University and elsewhere who have an interest in disease and medicine in the ancient world.

Alternate Wednesdays in Term: 5:30 – 7:00pm
Barclay Room, Green Templeton College

Michaelmas Term 2016

6th October
Professor Robert Arnott (Division of Medical Sciences)
Eva Dumann (New College)
Malaria and the Indus Civilisation

9th November
Professor Helen King (Open University)
Representing the uterus in terracotta, metal and fabric: votive wombs revisited

23rd November
Vivien Shaw (Brighton and Sussex Medical School)
Was acupuncture developed by Han Dynasty Chinese Anatomists?

7th December
Dr Alasdair Watson (Bodleian Library and Oriental Institute)
Supplementary Books to Dioscorides’ material medica in the Arab tradition

Convenors
Professor Robert Arnott
Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid
Dr Mallica Kumbera Landrus

For further details and to be added to the mailing list
please email robert.arnott@medsci.ox.ac.uk

ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND

FUNDED BY