Les médecins dans l'Occident romain : Péninsule Ibérique, Bretagne, Gaules, Germanies

With a varied corpus of more than eighty inscriptions (dedications to Gods, euergetism, epitaphs…) that was discovered in the western provinces of the Roman Empire (Iberian Peninsula, Brittany, Gauls, Germanias), the author, assisted by Patrice Faure for the physicians of military status, has carried a thorough study of health professionals (physicians, midwives, nurses, and “pharmacists”) in the Roman West.

The first part is dedicated to the analysis of the legal status, the geographical and social origin, the denomination, and the participation in public and private life of these six women and sixty-nine men, whose profession was obviously profitable. However, despite their apparent financial wealth, these men and women played little role in the public life of their city. 

The second part presents the documentation that was used. It is a true epigraphic corpus: description of the material, text in capitals and lower-case letters, critical apparatus, translation, photograph or drawing, and as complete a commentary as possible. A large part was given to the study of naming in an attempt to evaluate the degree of Latinization of Western physicians.