Seminar in Sino-Hellenic Studies: Perspectives on health from Hippocratic and Chinese medicine

This series of seminars compares the early development of Traditional Chinese Medicine (origins to about 100 BCE) and the medicine of the Hippocratic Corpus with respect to the following aspects of the study of health and medicine

Seminar information

Seminars take place on Wednesdays 2-4pm in Seminar Rooms G.13 and G.9, Doorway 4 (Old Medical School, Teviot Place). See schedule below for each lecture. Organised by Lisa Raphals (瑞麗), Leverhulme Visiting Professor, School of History, Classics and Archaeology.

Date Title Venue
Wed 14 Oct 'On the nature of medicine' G.13 Seminar Room
Wed 21 Oct 'The body in hippocratic and Chinese medicine' G.13 Seminar Room
Wed 28 Oct 'What is illness? On health and its absence' G.13 Seminar Room
Wed 4 Nov 'Medical encounters and the nature of diagnosis' G.9 Seminar Room
Wed 18 Nov 'Approaches to therapy' G.13 Seminar Room
Wed 25 Nov 'Medical ethics' G.9 Seminar Room
Wed 2 Dec 'Concluding perspectives' G.13 Seminar Room
Wed 19 Nov Body-Mind Metaphors in Greece and China. G.9 Seminar Room
Wed 26 Nov The Invention of the Body in Greece and China G.13 Seminar Room - Doorway 4 (Old Medical School, Teviot)

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