[1][3] She began her career as a Research Fellow in Greek at the University of Birmingham (1963-1964).
[1][3] In 1993 she was awarded a Wellcome Trust research leave fellowship for one year to work on Hippocratic anatomical treatises.
In the preface of her translation and commentary of the Hippocratic text Places in Man she describes this as an event which changed her life and lead to her seeking early retirement from the University of St Andrews.
[4] Having completed this book in 1997 she took up a post as Professor of Classics at Kyoto University[1] before retiring in 2002.
[5] From September 2003 to September 2005 she held an Emeritus Research Fellowship at the University of St Andrews, awarded by the Leverhulme Trust in order to complete her book Two Hippocratic Treatises On Sight and On Anatomy.