Laurence Totelin

Laurence Totelin (FRHistS) is a historian of Greek and Roman science, technology, and medicine.

Her thesis was Recipes of mithridatium in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Towards an Anthropology of Antidotes.

Her doctoral thesis was Hippocratic Recipes: Oral and Written Transmission of Pharmacological Knowledge in Fifth- and Fourth Century Greece.

[2] Totelin specialises in pharmacology, botany and gynaecology in antiquity.

She has co-edited three Festschriften, for Elizabeth Craik, Vivian Nutton, and Liba Taub.

Laurence Totelin, a white woman, wears a flowery dress and a black cardigan, as well as a necklace showing a molecule, and black glasses. she is lightly made up.
Prof. Laurence Totelin in 2023