Ancient Babylonian Medicine

Theory and Practice

AvMarkham J. Geller

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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Beskrivning

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

Produktinformation

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

Utforska kategorier

Medicinhistoria inom Medicin
Forntidens historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Mellanösterns historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

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).

Innehållsförteckning

List of Illustrations viiiList of Abbreviations xAcknowledgments xiiIntroduction to Babylonian Medicine and Magic 11 Medicine as Science 112 Who Did What to Whom? 433 The Politics of Medicine 564 Medicine as Literature 895 Medicine and Philosophy 1186 Medical Training: MD or PhD? 1307 Uruk Medical Commentaries 1418 Medicine and Magic as Independent Approaches to Healing 161Appendix: An Edition of a Medical Commentary 168Notes 177References 202Subject Index 211Selective Index of Akkadian and Greek Words 217Index of Akkadian Personal Names 220