Ancient Babylonian Medicine - Theory and Practice (2010) (Males

Markham J. Geller - Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice Wiley-Blackwell | ISBN: 1405126523 | 2010-05-17 | PDF | 240 pages 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 Contents: Introduction to Babylonian medicine and magic -- Medicine as science -- Who did what to whom? -- The politics of medicine -- Medicine as literature -- Medicine and philosophy -- Medical training : MD or PhD? -- Uruk medical commentaries -- Medicine and magic as independent approaches to healing -- Appendix: an edition of a medical commentary.

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ioannisarc (2010-06-11)

Thank you very much.

daleel (2010-06-21)

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