Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice

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John Wiley & Sons, 10/05/2010 - 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
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Who Did What to Whom?
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The Politics of Medicine
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Medicine as Literature
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Medicine and Philosophy
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Uruk Medical Commentaries
141
Medicine and Magic as Independent Approaches to Healing
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Notes
177
References
202
Selective Index of Akkadian and Greek Words
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Palavras e frases frequentes

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Acerca do autor (2010)

Markham J. Geller is Professor of Semitic Languages at University College London and Guest Professor at the Freie Universität Berlin. He is the author of Evil Demons: Canonical Utukku Lemnutu Incantations (2007) and co-editor of Disease in Babylo-nia (2007)and Imagining Creation (2008).

Informação bibliográfica

TítuloAncient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice
Ancient Cultures
AutorMarkham J. Geller
Ediçãoilustrada
EditoraJohn Wiley & Sons, 2010
ISBN1405126523, 9781405126526
Número de páginas240 páginas
  
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