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Rebecca Flemming

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Rebecca Flemming is a Classicist. She holds the inaugural A.G. Leventis Chair as Professor of Ancient Greek Scientific and Technological Thought at the University of Exeter.

Education

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Flemming completed her PhD at University College London in 1997. Her doctoral thesis was Woman as an Object of Medical Knowledge in the Roman Empire, from Celsus to Galen.[1]

Career and research

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Flemming specialises in medicine, reproduction, pandemics, and gender in classical antiquity. Flemming took up her position at Exeter University in 2022 when the chair was established with a £1.2m donation from the A. G. Leventis Foundation.[2][3] In 2021, Flemming contributed to an episode of In Our Time on the Justinianic Plague.[4]

Bibliography

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  • Rebecca Flemming (2021) 'Fertility control in ancient Rome', Women's History Review, 30:6, 896–914
  • Rebecca Flemming and Laurence Totelin (eds) (2020) Medicine and Markets in the Graeco-Roman World and Beyond Essays on Ancient Medicine in Honour of Vivian Nutton (Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales)
  • Nick Hopwood, Rebecca Flemming, and Lauren Kassell (eds) (2018) Reproduction Antiquity to the Present Day (Cambridge University Press) 
  • Rebecca Flemming (2000) Medicine and the Making of Roman Women Gender, Nature, and Authority from Celsus to Galen (Oxford University Press)

References

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  1. ^ "Woman as an object of medical knowledge in the Roman Empire, from Celsus to Galen". ucl.primo.exlibrisgroup.com. Retrieved 2024-02-04.
  2. ^ "Details | Events | University of Exeter". www.exeter.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-02-04.
  3. ^ Merrington, Andrew (2023-05-23). "University hosts inaugural Alumni Lecture for the A. G. Leventis Chair in Ancient Scientific and Technological Thought". News. Retrieved 2024-02-04.
  4. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Plague of Justinian". BBC. Retrieved 2024-02-04.