Ph.D. Stanford University 1968; B.A. St. Mary's College of California 1963
Greco-Roman
Medicine, Greek History and Historiography, Greek Art.
Books
Roman
Surgical Instruments and Other Minor Objects in the National
Archaeological
Museum of Naples, Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz,
Germany,
1994 (with Ralph Jackson)
"Roman
surgical spoon-probes and their ancient names (mele,
melotis/melotris,
specillum)," Journal of
Roman Archaeology 16 (2003)
pp. 322-330
"The
Surgical Instrumentarium of Leon Iatrosophistes," Medicina nei
Secoli n.s., 11 (1999) no. 2 , 291-322.
"Gynecology in Pompeii," in Ancient
Medicine in its Socio-Cultural
Context, edited by Ph. J. van der Eijk, H. F. J.
Horstmanshoff, P. H.
Schrijvers
(Rhodopi, Amsterdam-Atlanta, Ga., 1995), vol. 1, 209-225.
"Four
Testimonia to Autopsy in Byzantine Times," Bulletin of the History
of
Medicine 58 (1984) pp. 554-557 (with
Alexander Kazhdan).
"Philip
II and Abdera," Eranos 79
(1981) pp. 65-79.
"An
Unidentified Roman Surgical Instrument in Bingen," Journal of the
History
of Medicine and Allied Sciences 36
(1981) pp. 219-220.
"Lions and Greek
Sculptors," Classical World
68 (1975) pp. 381-384.
The Tools of Asclepius, Surgical Instruments of the Greek and Romans
Gynecological Surgery from the Hippocratics to the Fall of the Roman Empire