Oct. 30 and Nov. 1, 2013, in the NCNM Annex
Part 1: Hippocrates, a Shipwreck and the Revival of Medical Traditions
Wednesday, Oct. 30, 7-9 p.m.
Part 2: Pomegranate: A divine fruit?
Friday, Nov. 1, 7-9 p.m. with catered dinner.
2 hours CE approved by OBNM.
Traditional Roots Institute and National College of Natural Medicine are very pleased to host a two-part presentation by Smithsonian scholars Alain Touwaide, PhD, and Emanuela Appetiti of the Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions. The pair is conducting groundbreaking research to restore the broken lineage of Western Herbal Medicine from the Mediterranean tradition and make this information broadly available to academics and practitioners.
About the speakers
Emanuela Appetiti
Currently a research collaborator at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., Emanuela Appetiti is a sociologist with a specialization in ethno-anthropology who has done research in several institutions throughout the world, and studied and visited traditional populations worldwide. She gained intercultural experience and professional expertise in public relations, media relations, marketing, and sales during her time with the auction house Christie’s Italy in Rome, where she was press officer and clients liaison. For the past several years, sharing life and a strong passion for research with Alain Touwaide, she has become increasingly focused on history of medicine and of ethnobotany in the Mediterranean basin. She is fluent in Italian (mother tongue), English, French and Spanish.
Alain Touwaide, PhD
Currently a research associate at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., Alain Touwaide‘s research deals with the history of botany, particularly the medicinal plants, from Antiquity to the 17th century, in the Greek, Latin, and Arabic cultures that flourished around the Mediterranean Sea. Through a trans-disciplinary approach, which involves philology and history, medicine and pharmacy, pharmacology and ethno-anthropology, he analyzes ancient texts in their original language (Greek, Latin, Arabic), prepares critical editions of major works (with English translation and scientific analysis), searches in libraries all across the world for unknown ancient manuscripts, and produces reference works on ancient botany, therapeutics, and plant representations (paper and internet publications).
Dr. Touwaide is a Fellow of the International Academy for the History of Pharmacy, of the Washington Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Royal Medical Society, and the Accademia di Storia dell’Arte Sanitaria (Italian Academy for the History of Medical Arts). He is fluent in French (mother tongue), English, Italian and Spanish, and has a good knowledge of several other languages.
