New Approaches to Medical
Archaeology and Anthropology:
Practitioners, Practices and Patients
A conference to be held at Magdalene College
18--19th November 2000
List of Speakers | Abstracts | Announcement and Information
Speakers
Patty Baker
Curing all Ills: the History and Archaeology of Roman Medicine
Gilly Carr
Divination and shamanism in Iron Age Britain
Chris Knusel
Of Crystal Balls, Political Power, and Changing Contexts:
What the Clever Women of Salerno Inherited
Charlotte Roberts
Tuberculosis: a multidisciplinary approach to past and
current concepts, causes and treatment of this
infectious disease
Simon Stoddart
A shaman of mortuary ritual in prehistoric Malta?
Ralph Anderson
Kill or Cure: Athenian judicial curses and the body in fear
Elisabeth Hsu
The use of medical anthropology for the medical historian
(provisional)
Francoise Barbira Freedman
The material culture of shamanic medicine in
the Upper Amazon, with particular reference to tobacco
David Zeitlyn
The Dreams of an Electronic Spider. A Computer Simulation of
Mambila Divination
Vivienne Lo
Spirit of Stone: Technical Considerations in the Treatment of
the Jade Body
Charlotte Hardman
Beer, Trees, Pigs and Chickens: Medical Tools of the
Lohorung Shaman
Barbara Potrata
The Slovene New Agers and their healing practices
Ann Starr
Medical normality or social normality? Images of human infants
and foetuses with visible physical abnormalities
Philip Crummy
Doctor's grave at Stanway, Colchester
Jenny Blain
Magic, healing, or death? Issues of Seidr, `balance', and
morality in past and present
Fees and Bookings
The cost is £10, or £5 for students
Contact either:
- Dr Gilly Carr, St, John's College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, CB2 1TP
gcc20@hermes.cam.ac.uk, or
- Patricia Baker, School of European Languages and Culture
(Classics/Archaeology), University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, Kent,
CT2 7NF
P.A.Baker-3@ukc.ac.uk
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