Does your History of Medicine need updating? Have too many years passed since that *one* book you read on the history of pandemics? Then it's time for a refresher course! "On the Edge of a Pandemic World" is this afternoon (5pm ET). #GlobalHealthHistory kjcc.org/event/online-e…

CFP “Gynaecology and embryology in Ancient, Medieval and Early-Modern Texts” Lisbon, June 27th to 28th 2022 The Project “Gynecia: Rodericus a Castro Lusitanus and the ancient medical tradition about gynaecology and embryology” organizes, on June 27th to 28th 2022, at 1/

We're delighted to announce a new Routledge book series--Religion, Medicine and Health in Late Antiquity. Send us your proposals & manuscripts, please! You're in good hands with ReMeDHe. routledge.com/Religion-Medic…

CFP! Caelius Aurelianus Conference -Berlin summer 2023, submission deadline May 10 The DFG funded project 434908800 (DFG - GEPRIS - Mental Health in Late Antique Medicine: Caelius Aurelianus on Mental Disorders, 2020-2023) based in the Dept. of Classics at the CAU University /1

The manuscripts of the great libraries of Timbuktu are now online. 40 000 manuscripts, dating from as early as the 11th century, perhaps Africa’s greatest written legacy, have now been digitized and indexed by Google Arts & Culture and are accessible here: artsandculture.google.com/experiment/the…

Kyle Jordan’s talk on the Body and Disability in Ancient Egypt is now up and captioned! Horus the Elder 𓅃𓅨𓂋 ♿ Spurlock Museum of World Cultures youtube.com/watch?v=kaiXwI…

A seminar! ‘The Antonine Plague In Context’. April 8 at 15:30 EDT (UTC−04:00) Near the end of the Pax Romana, a mysterious disease known as the Antonine plague swept through the Roman Empire. The outbreak, which may have been part of a larger pandemic, correlates with /1

We're delighted to announce the launch of The Rootcutter, the SAM's official blog and home to accessible scholarly writing on ancient and modern medicines! societyancientmedicine.org/the-rootcutter…

Maria Christodolou inaugurates our essay series, "The Best Doctor is also a Historian," by documenting her attempt to make thyme-infused wine according to Dioscorides' recipe. societyancientmedicine.org/the-rootcutter…

The results lead her to reflect upon tacit knowledge, cross-cultural uses on medicaments, and whether to drink gross things.

Today, The Rootcutter is happy to publish Jessica Wright's editorial note, "To End a Pandemic, Create a Disease." societyancientmedicine.org/the-rootcutter… 1/4

New book series! Global Histories of Premodern Health and Healing (Edinburgh University Press) /1

Delighted to announce an international workshop based on Warwick-Humboldt uni collaboration in Berlin next month (7-8 July). The workshop is especially aimed at PG students. Please note that attendance is face to face only. #histmed #Greek #medicaltexts #Galen #lateantiquity

Hark! A conference! Behold, details below. The Early Modern Reception of Galen's Pharmacology A New Assessment of "Simple Medicines" and "The Powers of Foods" Domvs Comeliana - Pisa, 15-16 December 2022 Info and registration are available at: csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/confere…

PSA! A new version of manuscripta-medica.com is now online! You will have to register to view their wonderful collection of digitized manuscripts, and you'll be glad you did. If you were registered at the old version, re-register, please. (Thanks, MedMed!)

Read Jessica Wright's essay " Rethinking Catharsis: Gender, Mental Disorder, and Emotions" as part of The Rootcutter's inaugural series: societyancientmedicine.org/the-rootcutter…

A conference feat. our own Lennart Lehmhaus! Ecologies of Healing in the Premodern World (600-1350 CE) ed.ac.uk/history-classi… Organised by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos and Zubin Mistry Funded by the Wellcome Trust 9-10 September 2022, University of Edinburgh

Registration open: [hybrid] Conference: The Healing Classics: Medical Humanities and the Graeco-Roman Tradition - from King’s College London, 7-8 September. Register with [email protected] Program: thehealingclassics.blogspot.com/2022/01/confer…

New from the Rootcutter! "...ephemeron shows us the walls of the slave quarters are not impenetrable: drugs, knowledge and persons circulated in society through them." societyancientmedicine.org/the-rootcutter…