Caelius Aurelianus and His Work

CHIARA THUMIGER is a researcher at the Humboldt Universität, Berlin. Her work focuses on ancient Greek and Roman thought and literature, the history of ancient medicine and the history of psychiatry, as well as on environmental and comparative approaches to anthropology of medicine and body history. She is the author of A History of the Mind and Mental Health in Classical Greek Medical Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2017), editor of Holism in Ancient Medicine and its Reception (Brill 2020) and author of Phrenitis and the Pathology of the Mind in Western Medical Thought (Fifth Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) (Cambridge University Press, 2024).Contributors are: Chiara Thumiger, Philippe Mudry, Nicolas Lamare, Marke Ahonen, Krystal Marlier, Jean-Christophe Courtil, George Kazantzidis, David Kaufman, Lesley Bolton, David Leith, Susan Prince, Domenico Pellegrino, Anna Maria Urso, Caroline Petit, Gabriel A.F. Silva, Manuel E. Vázquez Buján, Pierre-Henri Ortiz.