| LC control no. | nr 98022247 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Touwaide, Alain |
| See also | Employer: Smithsonian Institution Employer: University of California, Los Angeles |
| Associated country | United States Belgium |
| Associated place | Washington (D.C.) Los Angeles (Calif.) |
| Birth date | 1953-09-19 |
| Place of birth | Berchem-Sainte-Agathe (Belgium) |
| Field of activity | Materia medica, Vegetable |
| Affiliation | University of California, Los Angeles. Department of Classics Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) |
| Profession or occupation | Historians of science Classicists Medievalists University and college faculty members |
| Found in | The pharmacy: windows on history, 1996: title page (Alain Touwaide [contributor]) page 293 (born 1953; Ph. D.; Belgian National Scientific Research Fund and Catholic University of Louvain) Theriaka y alexipharmaka di Nicandro, 1997: page 7 (Alain Touwaide) Visualizing medieval medicine and natural history, 2006: title page (Alain Touwaide) page xiv (historian of sciences at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.; has published on the history of therapeutics in the cultures of the Mediterranean world from antiquity to the Renaissance) Touwaide, Alain. Tractatus de herbis: Sloane MS. 4016, 2013: title page (Alain Touwaide) page 7 (Alain Touwaide; Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions and the Smithsonian Institution) Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions website, viewed January 15, 2021: link to Directors page (Alain Touwaide, scientific director, Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions; studied classics and Byzantine studies at the University of Louvain, Belgium; he obtained his doctorate at Louvain in 1981 with a thesis on toxicology in Classical Greece (1981); co-founder of the Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions, which is located in Washington, D.C.) <https://medicaltraditions.org/institute/people/directors/37-uncategorised/131-alain-touwaides-cv> English Wikipedia, viewed January 15, 2021 (Alain Touwaide; born September 19, 1953, in Berchem-Sainte-Agathe, near Brussels; US historian of medicine of Belgian origin; Ph. D. in classics (1981) from the University of Louvain; habilitation from the University of Toulouse in 1997; research interest: medicinal plants of Antiquity; co-founder and current scientific director of the Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions; he was affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution from 2002 to 2016; he currently teaches in the Department of Classics at the University of California Los Angeles) University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Classics website, viewed January 15, 2021: link to People page (Alain Touwaide; Ph. D. in classics from the University of Louvain in 1981; research interest: medicinal plants) <https://classics.ucla.edu/person/alain-touwaide/> |
| Associated language | eng fre grc |
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