Laurence Totelin Explained

Laurence Totelin (FRHistS) is a historian of Greek and Roman Science, Technology, and Medicine. She is Professor of Ancient History at Cardiff University.

Education

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

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 three Festschriften, for Elizabeth Craik, Vivian Nutton, and Liba Taub. 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

• (edited by Laurence Totelin and Emma Perkins) Tools, Techniques, and Technologies. Essays in Ancient Science and its Reception in Honour of Liba Taub (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024)
• 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.

External links

• Google Scholar profile

Notes and References

1. Recipes of mithridatium in antiquity and the middle ages: towards an anthropology of antidotes. 2024-02-05 . idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk . en.
2. Hippocratic recipes: oral and written transmission of pharmacological knowledge in fifth- and fourth century Greece. . 2024-02-05 . ucl.primo.exlibrisgroup.com . en.
3. Web site: 2014-11-20 . Laurence Totelin . 2024-02-05 . The Conversation . en-US.
4. Web site: concoctinghistory . 2024-02-05 . concoctinghistory . en.
5. Web site: Antiquity in Modern Cosmetics . 2024-02-05 . Makeup Museum Exhibitions . en-US.