Markham J. Geller

Ancient Babylonian Medicine

Theory and Practice

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Utilizing a great variety of previously unknown cuneiform tablets, Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice examinesthe way medicine was practiced by various Babylonian professionalsof the 2nd and 1st millennium B.C.

Represents the first overview of Babylonian medicine utilizingcuneiform sources, including archives of court letters, medicalrecipes, and commentaries written by ancient scholars
Attempts to reconcile the ways in which medicine and magic wererelated
Assigns authorship to various types of medical literature thatwere previously considered anonymous
Rejects the approach of other scholars that have attempted toapply modern diagnostic methods to ancient illnesses

Produktdetails

• Ancient Cultures
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 520g
• ISBN-13: 9781405126526
• ISBN-10: 1405126523
• Artikelnr.: 28776705

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations. List of 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.