Laurence Totelin

Laurence Totelin, a white woman, wears a flowery dress and a black cardigan, as well as a necklace showing showing a molecule and black glasses. she is lightly made up.
Prof. Laurence Totelin in 2023

Laurence Totelin (FRHistS) is a historian of Greek and Roman Science, Technology, and Medicine. She is Professor of Ancient History at Cardiff University.

Education

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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

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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 three Festschriften, for Elizabeth Craik, Vivian Nutton, and Liba Taub. 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

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  • (edited by Laurence Totelin and Emma Perkins) Tools, Techniques, and Technologies. Essays in Ancient Science and its Reception in Honour of Liba Taub (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024)
  • 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.

References

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  1. ^ Recipes of mithridatium in antiquity and the middle ages: towards an anthropology of antidotes. idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk (Thesis). Retrieved 2024-02-05.
  2. ^ Hippocratic recipes: oral and written transmission of pharmacological knowledge in fifth- and fourth century Greece. ucl.primo.exlibrisgroup.com (Thesis). Retrieved 2024-02-05.
  3. ^ "Laurence Totelin". The Conversation. 2014-11-20. Retrieved 2024-02-05.
  4. ^ "concoctinghistory". concoctinghistory. Retrieved 2024-02-05.
  5. ^ "Antiquity in Modern Cosmetics". Makeup Museum Exhibitions. Retrieved 2024-02-05.
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