Alain Touwaide

Dados Biográficos

ID1040889
NOMEAlain Touwaide
PRENOMESAlain
SOBRENOMETouwaide
ASSINATURATOUWAIDE A
AFILIAÇÕESNational Museum of Natural History
ORCID0000-0002-0725-1537
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS51
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES3
TOTAL COMO AUTOR48
TOTAL COMO EDITOR3
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1979
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2020
ÍNDICE H1

  • Avicenne et la médecine en Italie

    Open AccessAlain TouwaideARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2020

    Avicenne et la médecine en Italie: Le “Canon” dans les universités (1200–1350). Joël Chandelier. Sciences, techniques et civilisations du Moyen Âge à l'aube des Lumières 18. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2017. 604 pp. €98. - Volume 73 Issue 1

  • Searching for Chinese Medicinal Plants in Greek Classical Medicine

    Open AccessAlain Touwaide, Emanuela AppetitiARTICLEChinese Medicine and Culture2018

    This article examines the presence and uses of plants attested in the Chinese medical tradition in the materia medica literature of classical antiquity. It is based on the consultation of the major ancient compilations on materia medica of Chinese medicine and classical antiquity, specifically Bencao Gangmu by Li Shizhen (16th cent.) and De materia medica by Dioscorides (1st cent. A.D.). The article is divided in three major parts: the identifica…

  • Health and Healing from the Medieval Garden

    Open AccessLinda Ehrsam Voigts, Maria Amalia D’Aronco et al.BOOKHealth and Healing from the…2015

    Fresh examinations of the role of medicinal plants in medieval thought and practice and how they contributed to broader ideas concerning the body, religion and identity.

  • Food and medicines in the Mediterranean tradition. A systematic analysis of the earliest extant body of textual evidence

    Open AccessAlain Touwaide, Emanuela AppetitiARTICLEJournal of Ethnopharmacology2015

  • Communities of Learned Experience

    Open AccessAlain TouwaideARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2014

    Nancy G. Siraisi. Communities of Learned Experience: Epistolary Medicine in the Renaissance. Singleton Center Books in Pre-Modern Europe. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. ix + 164 pp. $45. ISBN: 978-1-4214-0749-4. - Volume 67 Issue 2

  • Knowledge of Eastern materia medica (Indian and Chinese) in pre-modern Mediterranean medical traditions

    Open AccessAlain Touwaide, Emanuela AppetitiARTICLEJournal of Ethnopharmacology2013

  • Peer Reviewers

    Open AccessAlain Touwaide, Alan Hamilton et al.ARTICLEEconomic Botany2013

  • S tephanus of A thens

    Open AccessAlain TouwaideCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2012

    Greek manuscripts contain medical works ascribed to a Stephanus qualified as Athenian or philosophos (and in one of them ( Ambros. L 110 sup.) as philosopher and physician without reference to an origin).

  • Perfumes and unguents, Greece

    Open AccessAlain TouwaideCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2012

    Coming after a long tradition of classical studies on perfume(s) in literature (e.g., Faure 1987), including a cultural and, more recently, anthropological approach (e.g., Detienne 1972), the study of perfumes in Greco‐Roman Antiquity was transformed in the 1970s thanks to the research activity of Giuseppe Donato in Italy.

  • Rheumatism

    Open AccessAlain TouwaideCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2012

    Of the many pathologies of the joints included in the classification of rheumatism‐related diseases in twenty‐first century human medicine, only a few (mainly arthritis and podagra) have been explicitly recognized and described in ancient medicine, whereas paleopathological (actually osteological) analysis of mummies and skeletons makes it clear that many of the currently identified forms of rheumatism already affected humans in all parts of the …

  • Diet, peasants

    Open AccessAlain Touwaide, Madeline BrownCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2012

    Pre‐cereal diet in the Greek countryside was made of fruits and wild plants on a seasonal basis, and meat, fish, and birds from hunting.

  • Milk

    Open AccessAlain TouwaideCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2012

    Milk (particularly of cow) was not an essential component of the ancient diet, in spite of its importance as a source of calcium (for teeth and bones), especially for women of reproductive age, animal fat and vitamin D.

  • Fumigations

    Open AccessAlain TouwaideCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2012

    Fumigations ( thumiama, thumiêsis; apothumiaô ) were a method for administering medicines particularly attested in the gynecological treatises of the Corpus Hippocraticum , especially for affections of the womb (medicinal products were introduced through the vagina): medicinal substances were burned on charcoal so as to provoke smoke ( apokapnizô ). The patient squatted above the source of smoke, wrapped the body with a piece of fabric covering b…

  • Medicine, Greek and Roman

    Open AccessAlain TouwaideCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2012

    Greek and Roman medicine were much broader than the strict science (and practice) of human health care. Medicine encompassed a broad spectrum of components, from practical and intellectual activities to the human feeling of pain, well‐being, and other individual bodily and psychological experiences.

  • Nutrition and malnutrition

    Open AccessAlain TouwaideCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2012

    Study of nutrition in Antiquity has been based for a long time on primary sources as catalogs of foodstuffs (with their properties) in medical literature (e.g., Corpus Hippocraticum , Regimen , and Galen, De alimentorum facultatibus , and De bonis malisque sucis ), pharmacological and natural history encyclopedias (Dioscorides, De materia medica , and Pliny, Naturalis Historia ), or cookbooks (for example, Pseudo‐Apicius), sometimes also referrin…

  • Menstruation

    Open AccessAlain TouwaideCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2012

    Besides notions scattered in the so‐called gynecological treatises in the Corpus Hippocraticum ( Nat. wom. , Wom. dis. 1–3, Gener. , Nat. child , Superfet. , Eighth‐ and Seventh‐mo. child , Excis. fet. ) and in Galen's immense oeuvre, our principal source on menstruation in ancient medicine is Soranus, Women's diseases (gunaikeiôn pathê) (1.6–8 (1.16.1–;25.108; Burguière and Gourevitch 1988)), who provides a survey of available literature on the …

  • Illustration, scientific

    Open AccessAlain TouwaideCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2012

    Illustrations appear in the manuscripts containing texts of astronomy, geography, mathematics, physics (including pneumatics), medicine (including orthopedics, bandages, and toxicology), materia medica (mainly plants and animals), veterinary medicine ( hippiatrica ) botany, zoology (including cynegetic), ichthyology, and possibly also physiognomy.

  • Disease and health, Greece and Rome

    Open AccessAlain TouwaideCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2012

    The human experience of health did not develop into an explicit and articulated discourse until relatively late in Antiquity, contrary to what happened with disease.

  • Aetios of Amida

    Open AccessAlain TouwaideCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2012

    A physician of the sixth century CE , and author of a medical encyclopedia ( Biblia iatrika ekkaideka ).

  • Illness

    Open AccessAlain TouwaideCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2012

    The pathological reality of Antiquity as a whole is difficult to perceive with some exactness, in spite of the texts describing single cases, such as the several books grouped under the title Epidemics and included in the Corpus Hippocraticum , the many works of descriptive anatomo‐pathology by Galen (for example, De locis affectis ), or treatises on specific diseases, of the kidneys and the urinary tract, melancholia, and gout by Rufus of Epheso…

  • Headache

    Open AccessAlain TouwaideCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2012

    According to the first‐century ce anonymous author of the treatise On acute and chronic diseases (30.20 Garofalo), headache is not designed in the Corpus Hippocraticum by the term kephalalgia (as was the case later), but by more generic expressions of pathology.

  • Hysteria

    Open AccessAlain TouwaideCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2012

    Coming after a century‐long tradition, hysteria is a modern syndrome of a psychopathology considered typical of women.

  • Bilharzia

    Open AccessAlain TouwaideCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2012

    Bilharzia is a chronic parasitic disease typical of Africa, particularly Egypt (especially the Nile Valley) and North Africa.

  • Disease, conceptions of

    Open AccessAlain TouwaideCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2012

    People, priests, healers, physicians, and others explored the whole spectrum of approaches to conceptualize the phenomenon of illness, from a holistic perception of animistic character to corpuscular divisionism of materialistic inspiration. Although these many interpretations unfolded over time, they did not necessarily supersede one another in a linear evolutionary perspective, but may have coexisted in some form at all or some points in time.

  • Sterility

    Open AccessAlain TouwaideCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2012

    Infertility was traditionally attributed to women alone, even though it may also have been caused by sterility in men. However, the Pseudo‐Galenic Definitiones attributes the cause to either one or to both (as is often the case, it adds) (19.451.4–5).