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for a four-year research project “Medicinal plants of Antiquity: A Computerized Database”. Ancient Greek therapeutical texts were digitized, indexed and analyzed both in the original and in translation.
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of Belgian origin. He taught history of Greek medicine and its tradition, Food history and other topics in the Medical Humanities at the University of California Los Angeles (
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Health and Healing from the Medieval Garden. Proceedings of the 15th Annual Medieval Studies Conference at The Pennsylvania State University
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from 2002 through 2016, where he was a historian of science in the botany department of the
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Plantae Medicinales Mediterraneae-Plants for Health in the Mediterranean Traditions
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Volume of study accompanying the facsimile reproduction of manuscript London,
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UNESCO Chair Salerno - Plants for Health in the Mediterranean Traditions
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A Census of Greek Medical Manuscripts. From Byzantium to the Renaissance
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Visualizing Medieval Medicine and Natural History, 1200-1500
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Jean A. Givens, Karen M. Reeds & Alain Touwaide (eds).
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Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions
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Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions
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American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Brussels-Berchem Sainte Agathe
historian of medicine
sciences
UCLA
classics
University of Louvain
habilitation Ă  diriger des recherches
University of Toulouse
Earth Watch Institute
medicinal plants
transdisciplinary
ethnobotany
ethnopharmacology
National Institutes of Health
Washington Academy of Sciences
International Academy for the History of Pharmacy
Linnean Society
Washington Academy of Sciences
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Royal Society of Medicine
Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History
American Institute of the History of Pharmacy
UNESCO
University of Salerno
De Gruyter
Routledge
British Library

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