Dr Ido Israelowich
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Dr Ido Israelowich
Department of Classics
Tel Aviv University
Tel.: (972) 0528-301130
E-Mail: ido0572(at)post.tau.ac.il
http://telaviv.academia.edu/IdoIsraelowich
Host faculty at the University of Bamberg:
Humanities
Areas of Expertise
- History of Ancient Medicine
- Roman Law
- Social History of the Classic World
Project Description
Forensic medicine and the Roman law of evidence
I am now engaged in a research project revolving the history of forensic medicine during the High Roman Empire and its implications on the Roman law of evidence. It will examine (i) all instances in which physicians acted as figures of authority in the Roman courts, such as cases of suspicious violence or disputed paternity or pregnancy; (ii) occurrences in which physicians themselves proclaimed their prowess but were not in demand by the courts, such as cases that required a diagnosis of madness; and (iii) the bearing these cases had on the Roman Evidence Law and Law of Procedure.
Bio Sketch
Employment
since 2011: Senior lecturer, Tel Aviv University
2010-2011: Fixed term lectureship, Tel Aviv University
2008-2010: Yad Hanadiv Post doctoral fellowship
Education
2005-2008: D.Phil Ancient History (Oxford)
2002-2005: M.Phil Ancient History (Oxford)
1994-1998: BA History and Philosophy (Tel Aviv)
Selected Publications
Books
Israelowich, Ido (2015): Patients and Healers in the Roman Empire, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Israelowich, Ido (2012): Society, Medicine and Religion in the Sacred Tales of Aelius Aristides, Leiden: Brill.
Refereed Articles in journals
Israelowich, Ido (2017): ‘The theme of illness in Sophocles’ Ajax’, SCI (forthcoming).
Israelowich, Ido (2017): ‘The extent of the patria potestas during the High Empire: the decision of non tollere as a case in point’, Museum Helveticum (forthcoming).
Israelowich, Ido (2016): ‘The use and abuse of Hippocratic medicine in the Apology of Lucius Apuleius’, Classical Quarterly Vol. 67: 635-44.
Israelowich, Ido (2014): ‘Physicians as figures of authority in the Roman courts’, Historia Vol. 63: 445-462.
Israelowich, Ido (2008): ‘The Rain Miracle of Marcus Aurelius: (Re)-creation of consensus’, Greece and Rome Vol. 55: 83-102.
Israelowich, Ido (2008): ‘The world of Aelius Aristides’ Scripta Classica Israelica Vol. 26: 91-110.