Mental illness in ancient medicine: from Celsus to Paul of Aegina
- Submitting institution
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Birkbeck College
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 1054
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Brill
- ISBN
- 9789004362727
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- 29 - Classics
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Mental Illness in Ancient Medicine: from Celsus to Paul of Aegina, co-edited by Dr Peter N. Singer and Dr Chiara Thumiger, presents the results of ground-breaking research by thirteen foremost experts in different fields, including research on several authors and texts that have been largely overlooked by modern scholarship. The project originated in a conference held at the Humboldt University, Berlin, in 2014, and the volume chapters derive partly from the original conference presentations, partly from subsequently commissioned contributions. In both cases, the texts were developed by their authors in close collaboration with both editors with a view to the project's historiographical aim of presenting a comprehensive account of developments in the theory and treatment of mental illness in the Graeco-Roman world in the first centuries CE.
Editorial input was significant, with Singer taking the lead with 7 out of 13 chapters, developing their arguments in dialogue with the authors, in order to address closely the aims of the volume and present a coherent methodological approach.
Communication with the publisher, Brill, responses to concerns raised in peer review and final editing for press were jointly undertaken by both editors, with Singer taking particular responsibility for the volume's important and comprehensive index resources.
The introduction was also jointly conceived and written. While both editors had input into each other's sections, Thumiger wrote the outline of methodology and the status quaestionis (c. 5000 words), and Singer the following analytical and diachronic overview of developments in the different periods, and different authors, covered by the volume (c. 6000 words).
We are asking for Singer’s own chapter, the result of several year of his research, to be assessed alongside his jointly written introduction and overall editorial contribution to this volume.
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