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Medicine and the Law Under the Roman Empire by Claire Bubb, Michael Peachin is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Medicine and the Law Under the Roman Empire about?
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 Un
Who reads Medicine and the Law Under the Roman Empire?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Claire Bubb, Michael Peachin
- Publisher
- Oxford University PressOxford
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780191924897
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Ancient History, Humanities