Ancient Babylonian Medicine

Theory and Practice

Markham J. Geller

• Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
• Jahr: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781119062547
• Auflage: 1
• Thema: Literature
• Thema: Ancient & Classical Literary Criticism

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Illustrations
• 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
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