John Scarborough

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John Samuel Scarborough (* 1940 ) is an American ancient historian , Byzantinist, and medical historian .

Scarborough earned a BA in Zoology and History from Baker University in 1961 . After a year at the University of Kansas Medical School , he earned an MA in Byzantine Studies from the University of Denver in 1963 . He completed a postgraduate degree in Classical Philology at the University of Pennsylvania and, after a brief tenure as a lecturer at West Virginia Wesleyan College , Buckhannon, received his PhD from the University of Illinois in Greek and Roman history in connection with the history of medicine in 1967 at the University of Illinois .

From 1966 to 1985 he taught ancient history and medical history at the University of Kentucky , where he was appointed professor in 1976. In 1981 he was also appointed Professor of Pharmacy as part of a joint appointment . In 1985 he moved to the School of Pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin – Madison and at the same time took over the management of the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy . In 1987 he also accepted a professorship in the Department of Classics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

In addition, he accepted numerous invitations to guest professorships and was honored with various degrees of honor.

Scarborough works on Greek, Roman and Byzantine medicine and pharmacology ( Pedanios Dioskurides , Galen , Aëtios von Amida , Alexander von Tralleis ), surgery, and anesthesia and pain therapy before the Renaissance .

Fonts (selection)

  • with Paul T. Keyser: The Oxford Handbook of Science and Medicine in the Classical World. OUP, Oxford, New York 2018.
  • Pharmacy and Drug Lore in Antiquity: Greece, Rome, Byzantium. Ashgate, Farnham [England] and Burlington [Vermont] 2010.
  • Roman Medicine to Galen. In: Wolfgang Haase, Hildegard Temporini (Ed.), Rise and Fall of the Roman World , II 37, 1, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin New York 1993, pp. 3-48.
  • Medical Terminologies: Classical Origins. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman and London 1992, excerpts online at Google Books ; second edition under the title: Medical and Biological Terminologies: Classical Origins , 1998.
  • (Ed.): Folklore and Folk Medicines. American Institute of the History of Pharmacy, Madison 1987.
  • (Ed.): Symposium on Byzantine Medicine. Dumbarton Oaks Publishing Service, Baltimore, Md. 1985 (Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 38). - (Review by Peregrine Horden, in: Medical History 31.1, 1987, 118-119, PMC 1139700 (free full text)).
  • Pharmacy's Ancient Heritage: Theophrastus, Nicander, and Dioscorides. University of Kentucky / College of Pharmacy, Lexington 1985.
  • with Vivian Nutton : The preface of Dioscorides' De materia medica: Introduction, translation, commentary. In: Transactions and studies of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Volume 4, 1982, No. 3, pp. 187-227.
  • Facets of Hellenic Life. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976.
  • Roman Medicine. Thames and Hudson, and Cornell University Press, London and Ithaca, New York 1969; Reprinted in 1976.

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SURNAME Scarborough, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scarborough, John Samuel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ancient historian, Byzantine scholar, and medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1940