Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice

Portada
John Wiley & Sons, 16 de març 2010 - 240 pàgines
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
 

Pàgines seleccionades

Continguts

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
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
Copyright

7 Uruk Medical Commentaries
141

Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot

Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice
Markham J. Geller
Previsualització limitada - 2015
Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice
Markham J. Geller
Previsualització limitada - 2010
Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice
Markham J. Geller
Previsualització limitada - 2015
Mostra-ho tot »

Frases i termes més freqüents

a¯šipu a¯šipu¯tu actually Adad-šumu-us.ur ailments Akkadian ancient Anu-iks.ur anus apkallu archives Assur Assurbanipal Assyrian asû asû-physician asûtu ba¯rû Babylon Babylonian medicine Böck caused century BC colophons context copied cuneiform demons Diagnostic Handbook disease ditto divination doctor drugs duplicates Durand Esarhaddon exorcism exorcist explain extispicy fever fumigation genres goddess gods Greek Gula Hammurabi hand healer healing Hippocratic Hunger illness incantations ingredients Iqı¯šâ Ištar ki-ma king king’s kukru Labat letter literature logogram magic and medicine man’s Marduk maš.maš mašmaššu materia medica medical corpus medical incantations medical prescriptions medical recipes medical tablets medical texts Mesopotamia Nammu Nineveh Nippur omens Parpola patient period Persian physician plant prescriptions priest probably professional reading refers ritual s.ehru šamallû Šamaš scholars scribal school scribe shekels similar Sippar source text specific Stol suffers Sultantepe Sumerian symptoms ta¯martu tamarisk temple term therapeutic texts therapy tion ummânu Urad-Nanaya urine Uruk word

Sobre l'autor (2010)

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 Utukkū Lemnūtu 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).

Informació bibliogràfica

TítolAncient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice
Ancient Cultures
AutorMarkham J. Geller
EditorJohn Wiley & Sons, 2010
ISBN1444320009, 9781444320008
Nre. de pàgines240 pàgines
  
Exporta citacionsBiBTeX EndNote RefMan