Archaia/Nea
Archaia/Nea means "Ancient/New" in Classical Greek. This is the Newsletter of the Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions, of which this is the first issue. Ancient/New without and or any other link between the two terms. Ancient and New are not juxtaposed, but create an interactive sequence, a direct shift from Ancient to New and probably even to the Future. Archaia/Nea is best understood as The Future of the Past. Because this is what the Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions is about: giving a future to the past, Inspiring Innovation from Tradition.
Baghdad,Crete, Salerno. And more...
The Mediterranean world is more than ever the object of renewed publications. Three of them illustrate the exchanges of knowledge and the continuity of tradition until the 20th century. But this is not all.
Rare Greek Medical Texts and Some Other Books
Filling the lacunas of a collection is not an easy job. Through purchases, exchanges, and donations, the Institute has been recently able to expand the Historia Plantarum collection with some rare pieces of scholarship.
Four Years Later
The Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions was founded in September 2007. Four years later, where has it arrived? What has it accomplished, what were the challenges and what are the promises?
Gardens, genes, history of science, history of medicine, and more
Plants, their names and uses, their tradition and display are on stage worldwide. From the District of Columbia to New York and the Alhambra, from Renaissance to the most advanced DNA laboratories, and from Byzantium to the 21st century. Here is our selection.
Read more: Gardens, genes, history of science, history of medicine, and more >
The Greek Legacy
Following its mission and pursuing its past activity, the Institute is actively engaged in recovering the Greek medical legacy with a broad set of activities, ranging from preparing the digitization of manuscripts to publishing original studies that shed a new light on the unique contribution of Greece to world medicine.
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