Laurence Totelin

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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[edit]

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[edit]

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 two Festschriften, for Elizabeth Craik and Vivian Nutton. 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[edit]

  • 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[edit]

  1. ^ "https://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=44CAM_ALMA21451199060003606&context=L&vid=44CAM_PROD&lang=en_US&search_scope=SCOP_CAM_ALL&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=cam_lib_coll&query=any,contains,laurence%20totelin&facet=rtype,include,theses&offset=0". idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-02-05. {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help)
  2. ^ "https://ucl.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma990011255450204761&context=L&vid=44UCL_INST:UCL_VU2&lang=en&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=Everything&query=any,contains,laurence%20totelin&facet=location_code,include,4761%E2%80%93164960800004761%E2%80%93store&offset=0". ucl.primo.exlibrisgroup.com. Retrieved 2024-02-05. {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help)
  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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