[MPWG] Fw: Medical Traditions Archaia/Nea - Summer 2012

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Summer 2012
 


The Institute
CONNECTIONS

In its constant and fast growth, the Institute is making connections to 
engage more decisively into its educational activity and to pass the torch 
to the next generation of scholars and scientists. A group of students is 
already in residence during the summer. ...
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Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions
Address:
PO Box 7606
Washington, DC 20044-7606
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Telephone:
(202) 633-0967
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Research
NEW INVESTIGATIONS

With youthful energy, the Institute is expanding the horizon of its 
research, thanks to students in residence during the summer or through 
programs initialized from inside the Institute. Mediterranean 
archaeobotany, Roman gardens, Ayurvedic medicine, and present-day 
traditional knowledge in Ethiopia are among the new investigations. ...
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worldwide
AN AUCTION, CONFERENCES, AND MORE
Exhibitions, conferences, and other events in the history of medicine, 
medicinal plants, and therapeutic uses of plants are on the rise. The 
Institute participates in several of them. Here is a selection ... 
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Collections
REORDERING
Just like the Institute, the Historia Plantarum library and documentary 
collection of the Institute's founders has dramatically grown in recent 
years. A reordering was necessary, all the more because the Institute is 
moving toward a new phase in its activity and opening more widely the 
doors of the collection to a teaching institution ... 
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in the literature
THE SALERNITAN SCHOOL
Salerno in southern Italy is supposed to have hosted during the Middle 
Ages a medical school credited with an importance equal to that of the 
school of Alexandria. As the story goes, it was founded by a Greek, a 
Jewish and an Arabic physician whose different origins reflect the 
multiculturality of the school. New research is delving into the history 
of the school ... 
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Archaia/Nea means "Ancient/New" in Classical Greek. This is the Newsletter 
of the Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions. Learn more.

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