A discussion of medicine, science, and madness in classical Egypt and Greece.

"Book" Recommendation:

Intro to History of Science: Crash Course History of Science #1, 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvtCLceNf30.

Bibliography: 

“Ebers Papyrus,” February 26, 2005. https://web.archive.org/web/20050226100008/http://www.macalester.edu/~cuffel/ebers.htm.

The Presocratics: Crash Course History of Science #2, 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epCOGAa7tRQ.

Plato and Aristotle: Crash Course History of Science #3, 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh0fxJkvL44.

Magner, Lois N. A History of Medicine. New York: M. Dekker, 1992.

Nasser, Mervat. “Psychiatry in Ancient Egypt.” Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists 11, no. 12 (1987): 420–22. doi:10.1192/pb.11.12.420.

Pietikäinen, Petteri. Madness: A History. London: Routledge, 2015.

Porter, Roy. Madness: A Brief History. Nachdr. Oxford: Univ. Press, 2010.

Porter, Roy. A Social History of Madness. Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1987.

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CORRECTIONS:

I misspoke when I said the order of the Socratics. The actual order was Socrates who taught Plato, who taught Aristotle.