Ancient Babylonian Medicine
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-1-4051-2652-6 (ISBN)
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
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).
List of Illustrations viii
List of Abbreviations x
Acknowledgments xii
Introduction to Babylonian Medicine and Magic 1
1 Medicine as Science 11
2 Who Did What to Whom? 43
3 The Politics of Medicine 56
4 Medicine as Literature 89
5 Medicine and Philosophy 118
6 Medical Training: MD or PhD? 130
7 Uruk Medical Commentaries 141
8 Medicine and Magic as Independent Approaches to Healing 161
Appendix: An Edition of a Medical Commentary 168
Notes 177
References 202
Subject Index 211
Selective Index of Akkadian and Greek Words 217
Index of Akkadian Personal Names 220
| Reihe/Serie | Ancient Cultures |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Hoboken |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 160 x 239 mm |
| Gewicht | 504 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4051-2652-3 / 1405126523 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4051-2652-6 / 9781405126526 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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