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Fifty years ago, Alain Touwaide embarked in an intellectual journey through the world of the plants, medicine and peoples of the ancient Mediterranean World. Later joined by Emanuela Appetiti, together they have assiduously traced and researched the ancient documents in libraries worldwide that transmitted the plant and medical knowledge across the centuries in the Mediterranean region. They have patiently built a reference library comprising most, if not all, the available scientific literature in the many
After 50 years of sustained effort and continuous academic advocacy through publications, lectures, teaching and seminars, as well as active participation to conferences and workshops, the field is gaining recognition and is burgeoning in different forms worldwide. In no place, however, it is a discipline in its own right, with a specific methodology and the necessary documentary resources. To compensate for this gap and adequately respond to the constantly growing demand, Emanuela and Alain wish now to tra
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