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What happens when we juxtapose medicine and law in the ancient Roman world? This innovative collection of scholarly research shows how both fields were shaped by the particular needs and desires of their practitioners and users. It approaches the study of these fields through three avenues. First, it argues that the literatures produced by elite practitioners, like Galen or Ulpian, were not merely utilitarian, but were pieces of aesthetically inflected literature and thus carried all of the disparate baggage linked to any form of literature in the Roman context. Second, it suggests that while one element of that literary luggage was the socio-political competition that these texts facilitated, high stakes agonism also uniquely marked the quotidian practice of both medicine and law, resulting in both fields coming to function as forms of popular public entertainment. Finally, it shows how the effects of rhetoric and the deeply rhetorical education of the elite made themselves constantly apparent in both the literature on and the practice of medicine and law. Through case studies in both fields and on each of these topics, together with contextualizing essays, Medicine and the Law Under the Roman Empire suggests that the blanket results of all this were profound. The introduction to the volume argues that medicine was not contrived merely to ensure healing of the infirm by doctors, and law did not single-mindedly aim to regulate society in a consistent, orderly, and binding fashion. Instead, both fields, in the full range of their manifestations, were nested in a complex matrix of social, political, and intellectual crosscurrents, all of which served to shape the very substances of these fields themselves. This poses forward-looking questions: What things might ancient Roman medicine and law have been meant or geared to accomplish in their world? And how might the very substance of Roman medicine and law have been crafted with an eye to fulfilling those peculiarly ancient needs and desires? This book suggests that both fields, in their ancient manifestations, differed fundamentally from their modern counterparts, and must be approached with this fact firmly in mind.
Acknowledgements List of Contributors Abbreviations and Cited Editions of the Galenic Corpus Used in the Volume Claire Bubb and Michael Peachin: Introduction: Setting Medicine and the Law Apart, Together I: Selling the Subject-Matter: When Science, Competition, and Entertainment Commingle 1: Matthew Roller: Introduction: Competition in the Roman Empire--Structure, Characteristics, and New Arenas 2: Anna Dolganov: Law as Competitive Performance: Performative Aspects of the Legal Process in Roman Imperial Courts 3: Luis Alejandro Salas: Medicine as Competitive Performance: Eristic and Erudition--Galen on Erasistratus and the Arteries 4: Kendra Eshleman: Response: Does the Performance Undercut the Substance? II: Over-Shooting the Subject-Matter: When Pragmatism and Expertise Collide 5: Alice Koenig and Michael Peachin: Introduction: What Makes the Specialized Expert, and his Expertise? 6: Bruce Frier: Juristic Literature and the Law: Competition and Cooperation 7: Claire Bubb: Medical Literature and Medicine: Going Beyond the Practical 8: James Uden: Response: Expert or Intellectual? Other Views on Legal and Medical Expertise III: Positioning the Subject-Matter: When Rhetoric and Science Converge 9: Ulrike Babusiaux and Claire Bubb: Introduction: The Ubiquity of Rhetoric 10: Ulrike Babusiaux: Rhetoric in Legal Writing: The Ethos and the Pathos of Roman Jurists 11: Caroline Petit: Rhetoric in Medical Writing: Artistic Prose? 12: Claire Bubb and Joseph Howley: Response: Experts of Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Expertise Michael Trapp: Conclusion: How does Philosophy Compare? Index
Author(s) | Edited by Claire Bubb (Assistant Professor of Classical Literature and Science, Assistant Professor of Classical Literature and Science, New York UniversityAssistant Professor of Classical Literature and Science, New York University), Michael Peachin (Professor Emeritus of Classics, Former Professor of Classics, New York UniversityFormer Professor of Classics, New York University). |
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Publisher | Oxford University Press |
ISBN | 9780192898616 |
Format | Hardback |
Pages | 368 |
Published in | United Kingdom |
Published | 1 Jun 2023 |
Availability | Available |
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