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Ancient Babylonian Medicine : Theory and Practice

ISBN: 9781405126526 | 1405126523
Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date: 5/10/2010

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
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 pr... MORE
List of Illustrationsp. viii
List of Abbreviationsp. x
Acknowledgmentsp. xii
Introduction to Babylonian Medicine and Magicp. 1
Medicine as Sciencep. 11
Who Did What to Whom?p. 43
The Politics of Medicinep. 56
Medicine as Literaturep. 89
Medicine and Philosophyp. 118
Medical Training: MD or PhD?... MORE
Uruk Medical Commentariesp. 141
Medicine and Magic as Independent Approaches to Healingp. 161
Appendix: An Edition of a Medical Commentaryp. 168
Notesp. 177
Referencesp. 202
Subject Indexp. 211
Selective Index of Akkadian and Greek Wordsp. 217
Index of Akkadian Personal Namesp. 220
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Markham J. Geller is Professor of Semitic Languages at University College London and Guest Professor at the Freie Universitat Berlin. He is the author of Evil Demons: Canonical Utukku Lemnutu Incantations (2007) and co-editor of Disease in Babylonia (2007) and Imagining Creation (2008).


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