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Medicine and the law under the Roman Empire / edited by Claire Bubb and Michael Peachin.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford studies in Roman society and law
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical jurisprudence--Rome--History--To 1500.
- Medical jurisprudence.
- Medical laws and legislation--Rome--History--To 1500.
- Medical laws and legislation.
- Medicine, Greek and Roman.
- Rome (Empire).
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 349 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Contents:
- I. Introduction
- Setting Medicine and Law Apart, Together / Claire Bubb and Michael Peachin. II. Selling the Subject-matter : When Science, Competition, and Entertainment Commingle. Introduction : Competition in the Roman Empire : Structure, Characteristics, and New Arenas / Matthew Roller
- Law as Competitive Performance : Performative Aspects of the Legal Process in Roman Imperial Courts / Anna Dolganov
- Medicine as Competitive Performance : Eristic and Erudition : Galen on Erasistratus and the Arteries / Luis Alejandro Salas
- Response : Does the Performance Undercut the Substance? / Kendra Eshleman. III. Over-shooting the Subject-matter : When Pragmatism and Expertise Collide. Introduction : What Makes the Expert, and His Expertise? / Alice König and Michael Peachin
- Juristic Literature and the Law : Competition and Cooperation / Bruce W. Frier
- Medical Literature and Medicine : Going Beyond the Practical / Claire Bubb
- Response : Expert or Intellectual? Other Views of Legal and Medical Expertise / James Uden. IV. Positioning the Subject-matter : When Rhetoric and Science Converge. Introduction : the Ubiquity of Rhetoric / Ulrike Babusiaux and Claire Bubb
- Rhetoric in Legal Writing : The Ethos and Pathos of Roman Jurists / Ulrike Babusiaux
- Rhetoric in Medical Writing : Artistic Prose? / Caroline Petit
- Response : Experts of Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Expertise / Claire Bubb and Joseph Howley. V. Epilogue. How Does Philosophy Compare? / Michael Trapp.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Proceedings of a conference held at New York University, Oct. 4-5, 2019.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0192898612
- 9780192898616
- OCLC:
- 1360280593
- Publisher Number:
- 99994550009
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