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Homo Patiens - Approaches to the Patient in the Ancient World is a collection of studies about the patients of the Graeco-Roman world, their role in the ancient medical encounters and their relationship to the health providers and medical practitioners of their time.
About the author
Georgia Petridou is a research associate at the Max-Weber Kolleg, University of Erfurt. She works on classical literature, history of religions and Graeco-Roman medicine in its socio-cultural context. She is the author of
Divine Epiphany in Greek Literature and Culture (Oxford University Press, 2015), and co-editor (with Richard Gordon and Jörg Rüpke) of Beyond Priesthood: Religious Entrepreneurs and Innovators in the Imperial Era (De Gruyter, 2016).
Chiara Thumiger is a research associate at Humboldt Universität (Berlin) within the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship Project 'Medicine of the Mind - Philosophy of the body'. She has previously worked on the representation of self and mental facts in literary sources (especially tragedy) and published a monograph on Euripides' Bacchae (Hidden paths, London 2007) as well as a various articles and chapters about tragedy. Her monograph on mental disorder in early Greek medicine, The life and health of the mind in early Greek medical ideas is forthcoming, as well as a volume (co-edited with P.N. Singer) on Medical Conceptions of Mental Illness from Celsus to Caelius Aurelianus.
Contributors are: P. Baker, L. Bolton, P. Bouras-Vallianatos, J. Draycott, G. Ecca, L. A. Graumann, H. F. J. Horstmanshoff, P. Koetschet, J. C. Kosak, M. Letts, O. Lewis, S. P. Mattern, G. Petridou, A. Porter, K. van Schaik, M. Stolberg, C. Thumiger, C. Roby, C. Webster, J. Z. Wee and J. M. Wilkins.
