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“The Brain beyond Kühn: Reflections on Anatomical Procedures, Book IX.” In V.

Anatomical Knowledge and Physiological Speculation in the Second Century AD, Brill, 2003.Īwarded “Outstanding Book in the History of the Neurosciences for 2006”, International Society for the History of the Neurosciences. History, Discovery, Theory, Swets & Zeitlinger, 2003: 253-271.

“Galen and the Uses of Trepanation.” In R.

Tarrant (eds.), Reading Plato in Antiquity, Duckworth, 2006: 49-59. Galen’s use of the Phaedrus in De Placitis Hippocratis et Platonis Book IX.” In D.M. The Cambridge Companion to Galen, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008, 242-262. Gagarin et al (eds.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Greece and Rome, Oxford and New York, 2010. The Changing Concepts of Physiology from Antiquity into Early Modern Europe, Brill, 2012, 629-659.

Aspects of the conceptualisation and interpretation of Galen’s natural pneuma”, in M. Irby (ed.), Blackwell Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Science.

(Forthcoming) “Anatomy and Physiology”, in G.L.

His work with Professor van der Eijk’s Cambridge Galen Translations Project involves an introduction and commentary on De usu partium.

During that period he co-organised an international conference on teleology in antiquity, to be published by Cambridge University Press. He held a Wellcome Trust University Award, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Exeter, 2007- 2012. He was elected a Research Fellow, Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington DC, academic year 2004-5. In 2000-2003, he was a Research Fellow in the History of Medicine at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, producing a text on the institute’s origins. He received a Wellcome Trust Research Award, Faculty of Classics, Cambridge (1997-9), under the sponsorship of Geoffrey Lloyd. His doctorate, on Galen’s pneumatology, was awarded in 1996. He studied under Geoffrey Lloyd in Cambridge, academic year 1992-3. Awarded a grant from the Australian Postgraduate Research Council in 1991, and commenced a PhD on Galen at Sydney under the supervision of Paul Crittenden and Harold Tarrant. MA (pass with merit) in philosophy, University of Sydney, 1990 (Thesis: Epicurean hedonism). He practiced as a doctor, on a full-time and part-time basis, until 1996. He graduated with a degree in medicine in 1985 from the University of Sydney, and a BA in philosophy from that institution the same year.