Please join us for a SPECIAL PUBLIC LECTURE
by Dr. Efraim Lev, Associate Professor
Department of Land of Israel Studies
University of Haifa, Israel
“Practical and Theoretical Medicine in Medieval Eastern Societies: The Case of the Cairo Genizah “
on: Tuesday, September 2, 2014 at 4:00pm
Dodd Research Center – Konover Auditorium
Dr. Efraim Lev (B.A., M.Sc. Ph.D) is serving as the Head of the Department of Humanities and Arts at the Technion, Israel. Prof. Lev studied at Bar-Ilan University and was trained both as a historian and as a field biologist and therefore his academic work has always had a strong interdisciplinary focus. He won the British Council Chevening and Koret Foundation Post-Doctoral awards (1999-2000); and was granted a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, London. Prof. Lev won various prizes including “Levkovitz” Foundation for Research Students in the History of Medicine (Tel Aviv University – 1998), Dr. Moses Einhorn prize for the research of Hebrew language and Medical literature (Tel-Aviv – 2003), Overseas Visiting Scholar grant, St. John’s College, (Cambridge 2003-2004 and 2011-2012) and the George Urdang Medal for pharmaco-historical writings 2012 (Award of the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy). At the last few years his research focus is on ethno-pharmacology and the history of medicine in the medieval Middle East with particular emphasis on the medical documents in the Cairo Genizah (11th-13th century). In his project, “Medicine of the Genizah People”, he created a carefully planned framework of research teams, that reconstructed the medieval inventory of the practical materia medica of the Genizah community; and studied and published its original and practical prescriptions, list of drugs and medical notebooks.