University of Texas at Austin, 11, 12 and 13 August, 2008

XIIIth Colloquium Hippocraticum

What's Hippocratic about the Hippocratics?


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ABSTRACTS


Note: abstracts are provided in the form of downloadable PDF files; the free Adobe Reader can be downloaded here: adobe link

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—“Roselli's title: 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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