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Monday
August 11th: The
Formation of the Corpus
First paper session: Early
Days (abstracts
for this session)
Philip
van der Eijk, “The first and
the
second
Hippocrates,” University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Paul Demont,
“Géographie, histoire et
organization
de la medicine selon Platon,” Université de Paris, Sorbonne.
Susan Prince,
“The Peripatetic Hippocrates
and
other Monists in the Anonymus Londinensis,” University of
Cincinnati.
Eric D.
Nelson, “History of an Appendix:
What’s
Hippocratic about the Pseudepigraphics?” Pacific Lutheran
University.
Second paper session:
Hippocrates’
Rising Star? (abstracts)
Ann Hanson,
“Hippocratic writers and ancient
readers: authorship and individuation,” Yale University.
Amneris
Roselli—“ :
Ippocrate testimone di verità, da Apollonio
di
Cizio a Galeno,” Università di Napoli ‘L’Orientale’.
Rebecca
Flemming, “From Corpus to Canon(s):
Debating the Hippocratic in the Roman Empire,” Jesus College
Cambridge.
Third paper session: Galen’s
view of
Hippocrates (abstracts)
Véronique
Boudon-Millot, “What does Galen
mean by
Hippocratics and Hippocrateans?” Université de Paris, Sorbonne
Todd
Curtis, “Galen’s approach to what is
Hippocratic in De natura hominis: A rhetorical analysis of In
Hippocratis de natura hominis commentaria,” University of
Newcastle
upon Tyne.
R.J.
Hankinson, “Galen on Hippocratic
physics,”
University of Texas at Austin.
Tuesday
August 12th:
Drugs and Desire within and beyond the Corpus
Fourth paper session:
Pharmaceutical practice among the Hippocratics and others (abstracts)
John
Scarborough, “Some organizational
principles
and pharmaceutical therapies in the Hippocratic Diseases of Women I,”
University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Alain
Touwaide, “What’s Hippocratic about
the
Hippocratics? The contribution of materia medica and therapeutics,”
Smithsonian Institution.
Laurence
Totelin, “Hippocratic and
Aristophanic
recipes: same difference,” University of Cambridge, Dept. of
History
and Philosophy of Science.
Fifth paper session: Desire
as
Disease (abstracts)
Brooke
Holmes, “What is medical about
medicine?
The problem of pleasure,” Princeton University.
Jennifer
Kosack, “Fighting and mastering
disease:
metaphors and masculinity,” Bowdoin College.
Leanne
McNamara, “‘Love is like the
Measles.’
Hippocratic and non-Hippocratic approaches to lovesickness,”
University
of Melbourne.
Wednesday
August 13th:
Patterns and Distinctions in the medical thought of Classical Greece
Sixth paper session: Dreams
and
Eros in Hippocratic and Asklepeian Healing (abstracts)
Maithe
Hulskamp, “Medical dreams in the
Hippocratic Corpus,” University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Bronwen
Wickkiser, “Erotic experience in the
cures
of Asclepius and the Hippocratics,” Vanderbilt University.
Marquis
Berrey, “Male erotic desire in the
Hippocratics,” University of Texas at Austin.
Seventh paper session:
Hippocratic Bodies, whole and parts (abstracts)
Patrick
Macfarlane, “Teeth in the
Hippocratic
Corpus,” Providence College.
Roberto
Lopresti, “Perceiving the coherence
of the
perceiving body,” University of Palermo.
Robert
Alessi, “Bodily features in the
Corpus
Hippocraticum: remarks about the method of classification of
individuals into groups,” Université de Poitiers.
Eighth paper
session: Connections
of Language and Ideas within the Corpus (abstracts)
Elizabeth
Craik, “The affiliations of Glands
to other Hippocratic treatises,” University of St. Andrews.
Pilar
Pérez Cañizares, “The treatise Affections
in the context of the Hippocratic Collection,” University of
Newcastle
upon Tyne.
Juan
Antonio López Férez, “Autómatos y su
familia
léxica en el Corpus hippocraticum,” UNED Madrid. --
abstract in translation
Ninth paper session:Hippocrates
and the Sophists (abstracts)
Makoto Anzai,
“The Authorship of the
Hippocratic De
arte,” Hokkaido University.
Joel Mann, “On
the (distinctively
Hippocratic?)
Art,” St. Norbert’s College.
Ralph Rosen,
“Towards a Hippocratic
anthropology? On
Ancient Medicine and the origin of humans,” University of
Pennsylvania.
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