Häftad, Engelska, 2015
Ancient Babylonian Medicine
Theory and Practice
Del i serien Ancient Cultures
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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 scholarsAttempts to reconcile the ways in which medicine and magic were relatedAssigns authorship to various types of medical literature that were previously considered anonymousRejects the approach of other scholars that have attempted to apply modern diagnostic methods to ancient illnesses
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- Utgivningsdatum: 2015-06-26
- Mått: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
- Vikt: 340 g
- Format: Häftad
- Språk: Engelska
- Serie: Ancient Cultures
- Antal sidor: 240
- Förlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- ISBN: 9781119025528
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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).
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