{"id":1305,"date":"2017-09-28T11:31:45","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T11:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/?p=1305"},"modified":"2017-10-02T16:32:34","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T16:32:34","slug":"psychopharmaka-in-ancient-greek-medicine-and-thought-workshop-sept-29-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/2017\/09\/28\/psychopharmaka-in-ancient-greek-medicine-and-thought-workshop-sept-29-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychopharmaka in Ancient Greek Medicine and Thought &#8211; workshop Sept 29, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Fri, September 29, 2017, a workshop on Psychopharmaka is being held at Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften.<\/p>\n<p>The event is convened by R. Wittwer,<br \/>\nBBAW and TOPOI Excellence Cluster, Research Area D2 <em>Mapping Body and Soul<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Participation is open to the public, for administrative reasons, partitipants are requested to register beforehand with <a href=\"mailto:wittwer@bbaw.de\">wittwer@bbaw.de<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speakers are:<br \/>\n<span class=\"event-speaker\">Sean Coughlin (<span class=\"event-speaker-inst\">Humboldt-Universit\u00e4t zu Berlin),\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><span class=\"event-speaker\">Alessia Guardasole<\/span> (<span class=\"event-speaker-inst\">Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris), <\/span><span class=\"event-speaker\">Matteo Martelli<\/span> (<span class=\"event-speaker-inst\">Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften), <\/span><span class=\"event-speaker\">S\u00e9bastien Moureau<\/span> (<span class=\"event-speaker\">The Warburg Institute, UK), Lucia Raggetti<\/span> (<span class=\"event-speaker-inst\">Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin), <\/span><span class=\"event-speaker\">Robert Sieben-Tait<\/span> (<span class=\"event-speaker-inst\">Charit\u00e9-Universit\u00e4tsmedizin Berlin), (<\/span><span class=\"event-speaker\">Chiara Thumiger<\/span> (<span class=\"event-speaker-inst\">Warwick University, UK)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Please go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.topoi.org\/event\/42435\/\">TOPOI website for a full conference programme<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ancient physicians were well aware that material substances could and did cause observable effects in the functioning of human psyche and they followed different paths in observing and conceptualizing the relationships between \u2018soul\u2019 (<em>psych\u0113<\/em>) and <em>pharmaka<\/em>, with its broad spectrum of meanings: \u2018medicines,\u2019 \u2018drugs\u2019 and \u2018poisons\u2019. On the one hand, they described and classified the effects that active substances could bring about in the \u2018psychic\u2019 sphere of human beings, including their impact on emotions, perceptions, and \u2018mental\u2019 activities. In some cases, they were even aware that such an impact could depend on the beliefs of the patients, rather than on the real properties of drugs. On the other hand, the concepts of \u2018soul\u2019 and \u2018spirit\u2019 were often used to explain and conceptualize the properties of substances in medicine and in contiguous areas of expertise, such as alchemy. These interrelated and complex aspects of the soul-<em>pharmakon<\/em> relationship will represent the main focus of the workshop, which will explore this topic within a broad chronological time frame, from Homer up to the Islamic medicine.<\/p>\n<div class=\"event-child-event-persons\"><\/div>\n<table class=\"child-events\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Fri, September 29, 2017, a workshop on Psychopharmaka is being held at Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. The event is convened by R. Wittwer, BBAW and TOPOI Excellence Cluster, Research Area D2 Mapping Body and Soul. Participation is open to the public, for administrative reasons, partitipants are requested to register beforehand with wittwer@bbaw.de. Speakers are: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1682,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1682"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1306,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions\/1306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}