Animals and the Environment in Ancient Mediterranean Medicine 

International Conference (in Hybrid Format): University of Exeter, UK, July 5-6^th 2023.  

This conference will explore animals as both objects of ancient medical and scientific endeavour and as subjects in their own right within their wider environmental context. It responds to recent calls for sustained dialogue between medical history (human and veterinary) and the burgeoning field of human-animal history (e.g. Woods et al., 2018; Woods, 2019). Classical studies have broadly embraced the animal turn but with little focus on medicine so far (though see e.g. Thumiger, 2021; Boehm and Luccioni (eds.), 2008). The aim here is to develop a richer, more wide-ranging account of animals within the ancient history of human/veterinary medicine alongside, and in conversation with, similar developments for later historical periods, and to reflect on the connections drawn in antiquity between humans, animals, and their environment, from a perspective of health, disease and wider well-being.

Abstracts are invited from scholars at any stage in their academic career, including PhD students, for papers that address any aspect of the topic. Some important themes include, but are by no means limited to: animals and disease, animals as patients, animals as therapy. 

Please submit abstracts, maximum 300 words, for a 20-minute paper followed by discussion to Prof. Rebecca Flemming, University of Exeter (r.flemming@exeter.ac.uk), by November 30^th 2022. Please provide a short biographical note, including any institutional affiliation and relevant research interests, with your abstract and please also indicate whether you intend to present your paper in person or remotely.  

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