Ancient Babylonian Medicine (PDF)
Theory and Practice
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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...
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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 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
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
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Ancient Babylonian Medicine (PDF)“
List of Illustrations. List of Abbreviations. Acknowledgments. Introduction to Babylonian Medicine and Magic. 1 Medicine as Science. 2 Who Did What to Whom? 3 The Politics of Medicine. 4 Medicine as Literature. 5 Medicine and Philosophy. 6 Medical Training: MD or PhD? 7 Uruk Medical Commentaries. 8 Medicine and Magic as Independent Approaches to Healing. Appendix: An Edition of a Medical Commentary. Notes. References. Subject Index. Selective Index of Akkadian and Greek Words. Index of Akkadian Personal Names.
Autoren-Porträt von Markham J. Geller
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 Utukku Lemnutu 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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- Autor: Markham J. Geller
- 2010, 1. Auflage, 240 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
- ISBN-10: 1444320009
- ISBN-13: 9781444320008
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.03.2010
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