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 Medicine and the Law Under the Roman Empire
What happens when we juxtapose medicine and law in the ancient Roman world? This innovative collection of scholarly research shows how both fields were shaped by the particular needs and desires of their practitioners and users. It approaches the study of these fields through three avenues. First, it argues that the literatures produced by elite practitioners, like Galen or Ulpian, were not merely utilitarian, but were pieces of aesthetically inflected literature and thus carried all of the disparate baggage linked to any form of literature in the Roman context. Second, it suggests that while one element of that literary luggage was the socio-political competition that these texts facilitated, high stakes agonism also uniquely marked the quotidian practice of both medicine and law, resulting in both fields coming to function as forms of popular public entertainment. Finally, it shows how the effects of rhetoric and the deeply rhetorical education of the elite made themselves constantly apparent in both the literature on and the practice of medicine and law. Through case studies in both fields and on each of these topics, together with contextualizing essays, Medicine and the Law Under the Roman Empire suggests that the blanket results of all this were profound. The introduction to the volume argues that medicine was not contrived merely to ensure healing of the infirm by doctors, and law did not single-mindedly aim to regulate society in a consistent, orderly, and binding fashion. Instead, both fields, in the full range of their manifestations, were nested in a complex matrix of social, political, and intellectual crosscurrents, all of which served to shape the very substances of these fields themselves. This poses forward-looking questions: What things might ancient Roman medicine and law have been meant or geared to accomplish in their world? And how might the very substance of Roman medicine and law have been crafted with an eye to fulfilling those peculiarly ancient needs and desires? This book suggests that both fields, in their ancient manifestations, differed fundamentally from their modern counterparts, and must be approached with this fact firmly in mind.

Medicine and the Law Under the Roman Empire 1st Table of contents:

 Part I. Introduction
Setting Medicine and Law Apart, Together
Part II. Selling the Subject-Matter: When Science, Competition, and Entertainment Commingle
Introduction: Competition in the Roman Empire—Structure, Characteristics, and New Arenas
Georg Simmel and Competition Theory
Scholarly Approaches to Roman Aristocratic Competition
General Questions
Law as Competitive Performance: Performative Aspects of the Legal Process in Roman Imperial Courts
Performing Roman Justice in Sicily in the Late Republic
Performing Roman Justice in Egypt under the Principate
Conclusions
Appendix
Medicine as Competitive Performance: Eristic and Erudition—Galen on Erasistratus and the Arteries
Maryllus the Mime-Writer and the Value of Anatomical Experience
Compulsion of the Truth and the Anatomy of Deception
A Polemic in Four Parts
Response: Does the Performance Undercut the Substance?
Part III. Over-Shooting the Subject-Matter: When Pragmatism and Expertise Collide
Introduction: What Makes the Expert, and His Expertise?
Juristic Literature and the Law: Competition and Cooperation
Medical Literature and Medicine: Going beyond the Practical
Response: Expert or Intellectual? Other Views of Legal and Medical Expertise
Part IV. Positioning The Subject-Matter: When Rhetoric and Science Converge
Introduction: The Ubiquity of Rhetoric
Rhetoric in Legal Writing: The Ethos and Pathos of the Roman Jurists
I. Introduction: Roman Law and Rhetoric
II. Examples from Severan Legal Writing
III. General Conclusions
Rhetoric in Medical Writing: Artistic Prose?
Rhetoric and Medicine in the Classical Period: Two Disciplines in Formation
Rhetoric and Medicine in Rome: Galen
Beyond Galen: Artistic Prose in Imperial Medical Texts
Artistic Prose in Medicine: An Enduring Phenomenon?
Conclusion
Response: Experts of Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Expertise
Part V. Epilogue
How Does Philosophy Compare?
Index of Subjects
Index Locorum

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