Description: What happens when we juxtapose medicine and law in the ancient Roman world? This book shows how both fields were crafted to fulfil peculiarly ancient needs and desires, becoming forms of public entertainment and allowing practitioners to display their education in rhetoric.
Review Quotes: "The book is a pleasure to read, and the contributors do an excellent job of engaging with each other's arguments. This cohesiveness of the volume is one of its greatest assets, with the responses that follow the case studies helpfully synthesizing and asking further questions. While the essays are primarily suitable for advanced students and scholars, selections could be brought into an undergraduate course on Roman law or medicine. In the fascinating questions raised, and often answered, by the contributors to this collection, the reader will find new openings for future research on law and medicine and their commonalities." -- Lauren Caldwell, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
"The volume is a fresh contribution to classical scholarship in tracing how medicine and law co-existed under different layers in the Roman empire." -- Punsara Amarasinghe, The Classical Review"Medicine and the Law' offers a sprightly meditation on something important and easily overlooked, the role of rhetoric and competition within two different intellectual spheres, medicine and law, two spheres that one might not have intuitively linked in the ancient world." -- Peter Toohey, GNOMON