Laurence Totelin
Laurence Totelin (FRHistS) is a historian of Greek and Roman Science, Technology, and Medicine. She is Professor of Ancient History at Cardiff University.
Education[edit]
Totelin received her MPhil from the University of Cambridge in 2002. Her thesis was Recipes of mithridatium in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Towards an Anthropology of Antidotes.[1] She was awarded her PhD from University College London in 2006. Her doctoral thesis was Hippocratic Recipes: Oral and Written Transmission of Pharmacological Knowledge in Fifth- and Fourth Century Greece.[2]
Career and research[edit]
Totelin specialises in pharmacology, botany and gynaecology in antiquity. She has written and edited books on ancient botany and ancient medicine. She has co-edited two Festschriften, for Elizabeth Craik and Vivian Nutton. As well as academic research, Totelin writes for public-facing audiences such as The Conversation, and writes a blog, Concocting History.[3][4]
Totelin is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Fellow of the Linnean Society.[5]
Bibliography[edit]
- L. Totelin (ed.) A cultural history of medicine in antiquity. The Cultural Histories Series. London: Bloomsbury, 2021.
- M. Bradley, V. Leonard, and L. Totelin (eds) Bodily fluids in antiquity. London: Routledge, 2021.
- L. Totelin, and R. Flemming (eds) Medicine and markets in the Graeco-Roman world and beyond: Essays in honour of Vivian Nutton. Classical Press of Wales, 2020.
- L. Totelin, and V. Nutton (eds) Ancient medicine, behind and beyond Hippocrates: essays in honour of Elizabeth Craik. Pisa: Fabrizio Serra, 2020.
- G. Hardy, and L. Totelin, Ancient botany. Science of Antiquity. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2015.
- Hippocratic recipes: Oral and written transmission of pharmacological knowledge in fifth- and fourth-century Greece. Studies in Ancient Medicine Vol. 34. 2009. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers.
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- ^ "Laurence Totelin". The Conversation. 2014-11-20. Retrieved 2024-02-05.
- ^ "concoctinghistory". concoctinghistory. Retrieved 2024-02-05.
- ^ "Antiquity in Modern Cosmetics". Makeup Museum Exhibitions. Retrieved 2024-02-05.