Research Area
Active Research fields
Medical theories in ancient Greek texts, with particular attention to aspects related to the health concepts. Philological analysis of the texts themselves. Receipt of Plato's philosophy in Galen. Materialistic theories of dream.
Research projects of the last 5 years
Member of the Palermo Unit of a FIRB 2010 Project (national coordinator Dr. Franco Giorgianni, Palermo University) on "The names of illness and the words of the physician. Studies on medical terminology and epistemology for a lexicon of genetics and its degenerations from Hippocrates to ICD-10".
Collaborations
Associated member of UMR "Médecine Grecque", UMR 8167 "Orient et Méditerranée", University of Paris Sorbonne;
Member of the Association pour l'Encouragement des Études Grecques en France;
Member of The interdisciplinary research Centre "Forms of Knowledge in the Ancient World", Roma Tor Vergata University.