Medicine in Classical Civilization

These lectures concern with some of the key elements of medicine and health care in classical antiquity. Topics to be covered include the image of the physician in the Graeco-Roman world; the experiences of the sick themselves; childbirth, midwifery, and gynecology; madness and mental illnesses; the Roman medical corps; the cult of Asclepius and the birth of the hospital; the golden age of Alexandrian medicine and the history of surgery.

(This class will be in English).