Maison Française d'Oxford
2-10 Norham Road, Oxford
Spécificités de la causalité médicale dans l’Antiquité grecque et romaine
Particularities of Medical Causality in Greek and Roman Antiquity
Friday 6th May
Morning
Chair : Jean-Louis Labarrière (CNRS, Centre Robin, Paris)
9.30-11.00
Alain Touwaide (Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC) : «Snakes, scorpions, hemlock and others. Investigating the etiology of bodily processes in Hellenistic medicine»
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-1pm
Melinda Letts (Jesus College, Oxford) : «'Things that are known to laymen': the role of the subjective in determining causation in ancient medical texts».
1pm : Lunch
Afternoon
Chair : R. J. Hankinson
2.00-3.30
Véronique Boudon-Millot (CNRS, Laboratoire Orient et Méditerranée, Paris) : «Aition et prophasis chez Galien : deux mots pour une même cause ?»
3.30-5.00
Anna Marmodoro (Corpus Christi, Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford): "Galen on the powers of organisms and the likelihood of life”.
5.00-5.30 Coffee break
5.30-7.00
Riccardo Chiaradonna (Universita? degli Studi Roma Tre) : « Aspects of causation in Galen's work on pulse» |