For almost half a century, Vivian Nutton has been a leading figure in
the study of ancient (and less ancient) medicine. The field itself has
been revolutionised over that time. In this volume distinguished
colleagues and former students develop, in his honour, key themes of his
ground-breaking scholarship. Spanning from the Bronze Age to the Digital
Age, involving the cult of Artemis and the corpuscular theories of
Asclepiades of Bithynia, the medicinal uses of beavers and the cost of
health-care and wet-nursing, case-histories, remedy exchange and the
medical repercussions of political assassination, this book has at its
centre the pluralism and diversity of the ancient medical marketplace.
The lively interplay between choice and competition, unity and division,
communication and debate, so notable in Vivian Nutton's foundational
vision of the world of classical medicine, is richly examined across
these pages.