Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice

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John Wiley & Sons, 21/07/2015 - 240 páginas
Utilizing a great variety of previously unknown cuneiform tablets, Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice examines the way medicine was practiced by various Babylonian professionals of the 2nd and 1st millennium B.C.
  • Represents the first overview of Babylonian medicine utilizing cuneiform sources, including archives of court letters, medical recipes, and commentaries written by ancient scholars
  • Attempts to reconcile the ways in which medicine and magic were related
  • Assigns authorship to various types of medical literature that were previously considered anonymous
  • Rejects the approach of other scholars that have attempted to apply modern diagnostic methods to ancient illnesses
 

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Medicine as Science
11
Who Did What to Whom?
43
The Politics of Medicine
56
Medicine as Literature
89
Medicine and Philosophy
118
Uruk Medical Commentaries
141
Medicine and Magic as Independent Approaches to Healing
161
Notes
177
References
202
Selective Index of Akkadian and Greek Words
217
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Acerca do autor (2015)

Markham J. Geller is Professor of Semitic Languages at University College London and Professor for the History of Science at the Free University Berlin. He is the author of Evil Demons: Canonical Utukkū Lemnūtu Incantations (2007) and Melothesia in Babylonia (2014), editor of Melammu, the Ancient World in an Age of Globalization (2014), and co-editor of Disease in Babylonia(2007) and Imagining Creation (2008).

Informação bibliográfica

TítuloAncient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice
Ancient Cultures
AutorMarkham J. Geller
EditoraJohn Wiley & Sons, 2015
ISBN1119062543, 9781119062547
Número de páginas240 páginas
  
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