Patricia "Patty" Anne Baker is an American archaeologist and academic. She is Head of the Department of Classical & Archaeological Studies at the

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and Senior Lecturer in Classical & Archaeological Studies.

Career

Baker has MA degrees in Classics from

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and in Roman Frontier Studies from

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. She gained her PhD in Classics in 2000, also from Newcastle University, on the topic of 'Medical Care for the Roman Army on the Rhine, Danube and British Frontiers from the First through Third Centuries AD' Baker is the series editor of the 'Medicine and the Body in Antiquity' series, published by Routledge. She was elected as a Fellow of the

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on 16 February 2006.

Select publications

*Baker, P. A., Nijdam, H., and van't Land, K. (eds) 2011. ''Medicine and Space: Body, Surroundings and Borders in Antiquity and the Middle Ages'' (Visualising the Middle Ages 4). Brill, Leiden. *Baker, P. 2013. ''The Archaeology of Medicine in the Greco-Roman World''. New York,

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. *Baker, P. 2016. 'Medicine'. In: Millett, M., Revell, L. and Moore, A. (eds). ''The Oxford Handbook of Roman Britain''. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 555-572. *Baker, P. 2017.
Viewing Health: Asclepia in their Natural Settings
. ''Religion in the Roman Empire'' 3, 143-163. *Baker, P. 2018. 'Identifying the connection between Roman Conceptions of ‘Pure Air’ and Physical and Mental Health in Pompeian Gardens (c. 150 BC-AD 79): A Multi-Sensory Approach to Ancient Medicine'. ''

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External links

An interview with Patty Baker on the Coffee & Circuses Podcast

References

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