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#AAH2026 Marios Anastasiadis (NYU), "Diagnosing Value: Medicine and the Greek Slave Market" begins by addressing evidence (legal, epigraphic) concerned with the sale of infirm enslaved people and the potential for fraud in misrepresenting the health status of enslaved individuals presented for sale. He adduces more evidence to demonstrate that doctors, midwives, and other kinds of healers were active participants at slave markets, played a structural role in the slave trade, and popularized themes leading to the medicalization of encounters at slave markets.