MONOGRAPH
1. 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
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Reviews:
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
Gill, C., “Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy,” Phronesis 63, no. 2 (2018): 211-222 (see
213-214). https://doi.org/10.1163/15685284-12341348
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
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
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
EDITED VOLUME
2. The Concept of Pneuma after Aristotle (Berlin, awaiting second proofs). (with David Leith and
Sean Coughlin)
ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
3. “Fragments of History and Science”, Isis 109.1 (2018), 83–86. https://doi.org/10.1086/697065
4. “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_Tr...
rt_of_the_Pulse_._Scripta_Classica_Israelica_34_2015_195-214
5. “The Context of De Spiritu”, Early Science and Medicine 20.2 (2015), 125-149. (with Pavel
Gregoric) https://doi.org/10.1163/15733823-00202p01
6. “De Spiritu: A New Case against Authenticity”, Classical Philology, 110.2 (2015), 159-167.
(with Pavel Gregoric) https://doi.org/10.1163/15733823-00202p02
7. “The Substance of De Spiritu”, Early Science and Medicine, 20.2 (2015), 101-124. (with Pavel
Gregoric and Martin Kuhar) https://doi.org/10.1086/680674
REFEREED BOOK CHAPTERS
8. “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
9. “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)
http://oxfordmedicine.com/view/10.1093/med/9780198722373.001.0001/med-97...
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10. “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
Submitted (in Press / Print)
11. “Heat and Fire in the Theory of Ps.-Aristotle’s De Spiritu”, in H. Bartos and C. King, Heat,
Pneuma and Soul in Ancient Philosophy and Science: From the Presocratics to Aristotle,
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in press).
12. “Galen against Archigenes on the Classification of Pulses”, in M. Havrda and R.J. Hankinson,
Galen’s Epistemology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in press).
13. “Introduction”, in: S. Coughlin, D. Leith, O. Lewis, The Concept of Pneuma after Aristotle
(Berlin; Edition Topoi, in press). (with David Leith and Sean Coughlin).
14. “Pneuma in Early Hellenistic Medicine”, in: S. Coughlin, D. Leith, O. Lewis, The Concept of
Pneuma after Aristotle (Berlin: Edition Topoi, in press). (with David Leith).
15. “What was Pneumatist about the Pneumatist School?”, in: S. Coughlin, D. Leith, O. Lewis, The
Concept of Pneuma after Aristotle (Berlin: Edition Topoi, in press). (with Sean Coughlin).
16. “The Mechanics of Galen's Theory of Nutrition”, in G. Kazantzidis and M. Gerolemou, The Body
as Machine in Antiquity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in press).
17. “The Clinical Method of the Anonymus Parisinus”, in: P. Bouras-Vallianatos, Exploring Greek
Manuscripts at The Wellcome Library (London: Routledge, in press).
Images:
1) Book Cover, Praxagoras of Cos on Arteries Pulse and Pneuma: Fragments and Interpretation
(Leiden: Brill, 2017). Credit: Brill. Cover image designer: Christoph Geiger.