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Histories and Traditions of Medical Knowledge

 

In 2010, both Elizabeth Craik and Pilar Pérez Cañizares presented papers at the conference The Texts of the Medical Profession in Antiquity: Genres and Purposes (University of Oslo, 16th-18th September 2010).  Craik presented 'Erotian and Genre in the Hippocratic Corpus' and Pérez Cañizares gave her paper 'The Aphoristic Genre in the Hippocratic Collection'. For more information about this conference, please visit the University of Oslo page: http://www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/english/research/projects/papyrus/arrangementer/konferanser/greekmedicine.html 

Pérez Cañizares presented her paper 'René Chartier and his edition of Hippocrates' Affections', at the conference René Chartier: Éditeur des œuvres d'Hippocrate et de Galien : ses sources et son influence (University of Paris Sorbonne - BIUM, 7th-8th October 2010).  To view the programme for this conference, please visit the website: http://www.aibl.fr/fr/seance/event/chartier-editeur2010.htm

Pilar Pérez Cañizares has also been invited to take part in the conference From Words to Acts, which will take place at the Humboldt University in Berlin on May 27 and 28, 2011. Here she will present a paper entitled 'From Words to Acts and Vice Versa: On the Applicability of Hippocratic Therapy and on How the Hippocratics Systematized Medical Knowledge'.

There have been a series of work-in-progress meetings at Newcastle University, with presentations by James Wilberding, Pilar Pérez Canizares, Elizabeth Craik and Philip van der Eijk (2008, 2009).