Publications

2015

  1. Lewis, O. “The Practical Application of Ancient ‘Pulse-Lore’ and its Influence on the Patient-Doctor Interaction”, in G. Petridou and C. Thumiger (eds.), Approaches to the Patient in the Ancient World (Leiden: Brill, 2015), 345-364. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004305564_015

  2. Lewis, O. “Marcellinus’ De pulsibus: a Neglected Treatise on the Ancient ‘Art of the Pulse’”, Scripta Classica Israelica 34 (2015), 195-214. https://www.academia.edu/13019063/Marcellinus_De_pulsibus_a_Neglected_Treatise_on_the_Ancient_Art_of_the_Pulse_._Scripta_Classica_Israelica_34_2015_195-214

  3. Gregoric, P., Lewis, O., Kuhar, M. “The Substance of De Spiritu”, Early Science and Medicine, 20.2 (2015), 101-124. https://doi.org/10.1086/680674

  4. Lewis, O., Gregoric, P. “The Context of De Spiritu”, Early Science and Medicine 20.2 (2015), 125-149. https://doi.org/10.1163/15733823-00202p01

  5. Gregoric, P., Lewis, O. “De Spiritu: A New Case against Authenticity”, Classical Philology, 110.2 (2015), 159-167. https://doi.org/10.1163/15733823-00202p02

2016

In: U. Kornmeier (Ed.). (2016). The Soul is an Octopus: Ancient Ideas of Life and the Body (Berlin: Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité and Edition Topoi). http://www.topoi.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/sb_01_Kornmeier.pdf :

  1. “Dissection as a Method of Discovery”, pp. 24−29. 

  2. “Localising the Soul in the Body”, pp. 31−35.

  3. “Brain and Heart as Organs of the Soul”, pp. 37−43.

  4.  “Substances in Service of the Soul”, pp. 45−51.

2017

  1. Lewis, O. “Mental and Physical Gradualism in Greco-Roman Medicine”, in K. Geert, R. Hauswald, L. Keuck (eds.), Vagueness in Psychiatry (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), 27–45. (with Chiara Thumiger and Philip van der Eijk) https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198722373.003.0002

  1. Lewis, O. Praxagoras of Cos on Arteries Pulse and Pneuma: Fragments and Interpretation (Leiden: Brill, 2017). https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004337435

*Winner of the Young Historian Prize of the International Academy for the History of Science http://www.aihs-iahs.org/en/prizes

Reviews:  

  1. Manetti, D., “Orly Lewis. Praxagoras of Cos on Arteries, Pulse, and Pneuma,” Medical History 63.2 (2019)": 240–242. https://doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2019.20

  2. Gill, C., “Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy,” Phronesis 63, no. 2 (2018): 211-222 (see 213-214). https://doi.org/10.1163/15685284-12341348 

  3. Nutton, V., “Orly Lewis. Praxagoras of Cos on Arteries, Pulse, and Pneuma,” Isis 109, no. 2 (2018): 378-379. https://doi.org/10.1086/697909 

  4. Wright, J., “Orly Lewis. Praxagoras of Cos on Arteries, Pulse, and Pneuma,” Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2017.07.34 (2017). http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2017/2017-07-34.html 

  5. Afonasin E.V. and Afonasina A.S., “Orly Lewis. Praxagoras of Cos on Arteries, Pulse, and Pneuma,” History of medicine 4, no. 4 (2017): 410–412. DOI: 10.17720/2409-5834.v4.4.2017.10j

2018

  1. Lewis, O. “Archigenes of Apamea’s Treatment of Mental Diseases”, in P.N. Singer and C. Thumiger (eds.), Mental Diseases in Ancient Medicine (Leiden: Brill, 2018), 143–175. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004362260_006

  2. Lewis, O. “Fragments of History and Science”, Isis 109.1 (2018), 83–86. https://doi.org/10.1086/697065

2020

  1. Lewis, O. “The Clinical Method of the Anonymus Parisinus”, in: P. Bouras-Vallianatos (ed.), Exploring Greek Manuscripts at The Wellcome Library (London: Routledge, 2020), 25–54.  https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429470035 

  2. Lewis, O. “Heat and Fire in the Theory of Ps.-Aristotle’s De Spiritu”, in H. Bartos and C. King (eds.), Heat, Pneuma and Soul in Ancient Philosophy and Science: From the Presocratics to Aristotle, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), 140–156. doi:10.1017/9781108651714.009  

  3. Coughlin, S., Leith D., Lewis O. (eds.) The Concept of Pneuma after Aristotle (Berlin: Edition Topoi, 2020). https://edition-topoi.org/book/1597-the-concept-of-pneuma-after-aristotle/

  4. Coughlin, S., Leith, D., Lewis, O. “Introduction”, in: S. Coughlin, D. Leith, O. Lewis (eds.), The Concept of Pneuma after Aristotle (Berlin: Edition Topoi, 2020), 7–13. https://edition-topoi.org/book/1597-the-concept-of-pneuma-after-aristotle/  

  5. Lewis, O., Leith, D., “Pneuma in Early Hellenistic Medicine”, in: S. Coughlin, D. Leith, O. Lewis (eds.), The Concept of Pneuma after Aristotle (Berlin: Edition Topoi, 2020), 93–129. https://edition-topoi.org/book/1597-the-concept-of-pneuma-after-aristotle/ 

  6. Coughlin, S., Lewis, O., “What was Pneumatist about the Pneumatist School?”, in: S. Coughlin, D. Leith, O. Lewis (eds.), The Concept of Pneuma after Aristotle (Berlin: Edition Topoi, 2020), 203–236. https://edition-topoi.org/book/1597-the-concept-of-pneuma-after-aristotle/ 

2021

  1. Lewis, O., Hermon, S., Vespa, M., Giladi, Y., Marroquín Arroyave, E. ATLOMY (Greco-Roman Anatomy Atlas), Jerusalem: HUJI [Online; Available at www.atlomy.com]. Version 1.0, 2021. Version 1.2. 2023.

2022

  1. Lewis, O. “Galen against Archigenes on the Pulse and What It Teaches Us about Galen’s Method of Diairesis”, in M. Havrda and R.J. Hankinson (eds.), Galen's Epistemology: Experience and Reasoning in Ancient Medicine, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 190-217. doi:10.1017/9781009072670.009

  1. Lewis, O. Review of Petros Bouras-Vallianatos, Innovation in Byzantine Medicine: The Writings of John Zacharias Aktouarios, Isis 113.2, (2022) 432-433. https://doi.org/10.1086/719523

2023

  1.  “Perceiving and Diagnosing Pain according to Archigenes of Apamea,” in H. Baltussen, D. King and J. Clarke (eds.), Pain Narratives in Antiquity (Leiden: Brill, 2023, 145-175). doi.org/10.1163/9789004677463_008 

  2.  “The Mechanics of Galen’s Theory of Nutrition”, in G. Kazantzidis and M. Gerolemou (eds.), The Body as Machine in Antiquity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), 262-295. doi:10.1017/9781009085786.012  

  3. Lewis, O., Giladi, Y., Marroquin Arroyave, E., Caino L., Milgram, J., “Hippocratic Sacred Disease – Vascular System”, in Lewis, O. et al., ATLOMY. Greco-Roman Anatomy Atlas. (v1.5, 1.6.2023, https://www.atlomy.com/three-d-model/hippocrates_sacred%20disease%20-%20vascular%20system_04082023_1612.glb/72). 

  4. Vespa, M., Giladi, Y., Marroquin Arroyave, E., Caino L., Milgram, J., Lewis, O., “Aristotle's Respiratory System”, in Lewis, O. et al., ATLOMY. Greco-Roman Anatomy Atlas. (v. 1.1, 10.6.2023, https://www.atlomy.com/three-d-model/aristotle_respiratory%20system_04082023_1559.glb/47). 

  5. Vespa, M., Giladi, Y., Marroquin Arroyave, E., Caino L., Milgram, J., Lewis, O., “Aristotle’s Cardiovascular System”, in Lewis, O. et al., ATLOMY. Greco-Roman Anatomy Atlas. (v. 1.2 30.6.2023, https://www.atlomy.com/three-d-model/aristotle_cardiovascular_220823_1108.glb/61). 

  6. Ezrohi D, Giladi, Y., Marroquin Arroyave, E., Caino L., Milgram, J., Lewis, O., “Aristotle’s Gastrointestinal Tract”, in Lewis, O. et al., ATLOMY. Greco-Roman Anatomy Atlas. (v. 1.0 10.5.2023, https://www.atlomy.com/three-d-model/aristotle_gastrointestinal%20system_070923_2145.glb/66). 

  7. Lewis, O., Ezrohi D., Katz O., Moshkowitz A., Giladi, Y., Marroquin Arroyave, E., Caino L., Milgram, J. “Hippocratic On Heart”, in Lewis, O. et al., ATLOMY. Greco-Roman Anatomy Atlas.  (v. 1.0, 10.11.2023).

  8. Orly Lewis, Yael Baron, Dmitry Ezrohi, Yotam Giladi, Shay Hermon, Nir Propper, Marco Vespa “Digital Imaging and the History of Medicine”. Contribution to the online international exhibition Comparative Guts (Curator: Chiara Thumiger, CAU Kiel University, 2023). https://comparative-guts.net/digital-imaging-and-history-of-medicine/  

Forthcoming 

  1. Lewis, O. “Galen on the Pulse: Theory and Method”, in J. Lasakris, R. Rosen, P.N. Singer (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Galen (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024). 

  2. Vespa, M., Giladi, Y., Marroquin Arroyave, E., Caino L., Milgram, J., Lewis, O., “Aristotle’s Urinary System”, in Lewis, O. et al., ATLOMY. Greco-Roman Anatomy Atlas. (forthcoming). 

  3. Lewis, O., Ozarowska L., Giladi, Y., Marroquin Arroyave, E., Caino L., Milgram, J., "Anatomy of the Hand according to Galen", in Lewis, O. et al., ATLOMY. Greco-Roman Anatomy Atlas. (forthcoming).

  4. לואיס, א. ״הגוף בין טקסט, תמונה ומציאות: הידע האנטומי ביוון ורומא העתיקות וייצוגו הויזואלי אז והיום.״, זמנים (התקבל).

Journal articles by lab members based on work conducted at the lab:

  1. Ezrohi, D, “When Teleology Fails: Aristotle on Bile as a Useless Residue in Parts of Animals”, Scripta Classica Israelica, vol. 42 (2023).

  2. Marroquín Arroyave, E., Vespa, M. “Aristotle on the Anatomy of the Heart and Lungs (HA, 1.17): New Insights from a Multidisciplinary Approach”, Anthropozoologica 58, special issue “Observation Zoologique, Expérience et Expérimentation sur l’animal. Antiquité – Moyen Âge”, eds. rnaud Zucker, Annabelle Broseta, Alessandra Scaccuto (accepted, awaiting proofs). 

Media

  1. Radio Interview for the programme Bedeutung des Atmens in der Religion: Gotteswind, Heiliger Geist und pure Lebenskraft von Peter Kaiser, Deutschlandsradio Kultur 27.12.2015. http://www.deutschlandradiokultur.de/bedeutung-des-atmens-in-der-religion-gotteswind-heiliger.1278.de.html?dram:article_id=340871. 

  2. Podcast, Taking the Pulse - The Emergence of a New Diagnostic Method, in the series Research Bites (2018 https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-7yhjn-a312a9).

  3. Newspaper Column, Answers to 2000-yearold Questions, in the weekly column Private Investigators in YNET, most-visited online news portal in Israel (2020). (In Hebrew)

  4. Newspaper Report, Bar Belinitzky, “Researching the Anatomical Knowledge in the Ancient World with the Tools of the 221st Century”, in the newspaper article: “From Ancient Greece to the Anatartica: Fiver Israeli Researchers who want to Make the World a Better Place.” The Marker (May, 2023). (In Hebrew)