Systems of Classification in Premodern Medical Cultures
Sickness, Health, and Local Epistemologies
Herausgeber: Steinert, Ulrike
Systems of Classification in Premodern Medical Cultures
Sickness, Health, and Local Epistemologies
Herausgeber: Steinert, Ulrike
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Systems of Classification in Premodern Medical Cultures puts historical illness concepts in cross-cultural perspective, investigating perceptions, constructions and experiences of health and illness, from antiquity to the 17th century.
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Systems of Classification in Premodern Medical Cultures puts historical illness concepts in cross-cultural perspective, investigating perceptions, constructions and experiences of health and illness, from antiquity to the 17th century.
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- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
- Seitenzahl: 322
- Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2020
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
- Gewicht: 653g
- ISBN-13: 9781138571129
- ISBN-10: 1138571121
- Artikelnr.: 69949495
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
- Seitenzahl: 322
- Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2020
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
- Gewicht: 653g
- ISBN-13: 9781138571129
- ISBN-10: 1138571121
- Artikelnr.: 69949495
Ulrike Steinert is a postdoctoral researcher in the Research Training Group 1876 'Early Concepts of Humans and Nature' at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany. Her research and publications focus on the history of Mesopotamian medicine and culture, the Akkadian language, women's health, gender and body concepts. She is the author of a study on the body, self and identity in Mesopotamian texts, entitled Aspekte des Menschseins im Alten Mesopotamien. Eine Studie zu Person und Identität im 2. und 1. Jt. v. Chr. (2012) and is currently preparing a monograph on Women's Health Care in Ancient Mesopotamia: An Edition of the Textual Sources.
Introduction: sickness, cultural classifications and local epistemologies;
PART I Disease concepts and healing: new approaches to knowledge and
practice in premodern medical texts and traditions; 1 Distinctive issues in
the history of medicine in antiquity; 2 How to read a recipe? Working
backwards from the prescription to the complaint; 3 Experiencing the dead
in ancient Egyptian healing texts; PART II Disease classifications in
premodern medical texts and traditions from the Near East, Mediterranean
and East Asia; 4 Types of diagnoses in Papyrus Ebers and Smith; 5 Ancient
Egyptian prescriptions for the back and abdomen and their Mesopotamian and
Mediterranean counterparts; 6 Disease concepts and classifications in
ancient Mesopotamian medicine; 7 Classification of illnesses in the
Hippocratic Corpus; 8 The delicacy of the rabbinic asthenes: sickness,
weakness or self-indulgence?; 9 The Paradise of Wisdom: streams of
tradition in the first medical encyclopaedia in Arabic; 10 The Tree of
Nosology in Tibetan medicine; PART III Mental illness in ancient medical
systems; 11 Disturbing disorders: reconsidering the problem of 'mental
diseases' in ancient Mesopotamia; 12 Classification, explanation and
experience: mental disorder in Graeco-Roman antiquity
PART I Disease concepts and healing: new approaches to knowledge and
practice in premodern medical texts and traditions; 1 Distinctive issues in
the history of medicine in antiquity; 2 How to read a recipe? Working
backwards from the prescription to the complaint; 3 Experiencing the dead
in ancient Egyptian healing texts; PART II Disease classifications in
premodern medical texts and traditions from the Near East, Mediterranean
and East Asia; 4 Types of diagnoses in Papyrus Ebers and Smith; 5 Ancient
Egyptian prescriptions for the back and abdomen and their Mesopotamian and
Mediterranean counterparts; 6 Disease concepts and classifications in
ancient Mesopotamian medicine; 7 Classification of illnesses in the
Hippocratic Corpus; 8 The delicacy of the rabbinic asthenes: sickness,
weakness or self-indulgence?; 9 The Paradise of Wisdom: streams of
tradition in the first medical encyclopaedia in Arabic; 10 The Tree of
Nosology in Tibetan medicine; PART III Mental illness in ancient medical
systems; 11 Disturbing disorders: reconsidering the problem of 'mental
diseases' in ancient Mesopotamia; 12 Classification, explanation and
experience: mental disorder in Graeco-Roman antiquity
Introduction: sickness, cultural classifications and local epistemologies;
PART I Disease concepts and healing: new approaches to knowledge and
practice in premodern medical texts and traditions; 1 Distinctive issues in
the history of medicine in antiquity; 2 How to read a recipe? Working
backwards from the prescription to the complaint; 3 Experiencing the dead
in ancient Egyptian healing texts; PART II Disease classifications in
premodern medical texts and traditions from the Near East, Mediterranean
and East Asia; 4 Types of diagnoses in Papyrus Ebers and Smith; 5 Ancient
Egyptian prescriptions for the back and abdomen and their Mesopotamian and
Mediterranean counterparts; 6 Disease concepts and classifications in
ancient Mesopotamian medicine; 7 Classification of illnesses in the
Hippocratic Corpus; 8 The delicacy of the rabbinic asthenes: sickness,
weakness or self-indulgence?; 9 The Paradise of Wisdom: streams of
tradition in the first medical encyclopaedia in Arabic; 10 The Tree of
Nosology in Tibetan medicine; PART III Mental illness in ancient medical
systems; 11 Disturbing disorders: reconsidering the problem of 'mental
diseases' in ancient Mesopotamia; 12 Classification, explanation and
experience: mental disorder in Graeco-Roman antiquity
PART I Disease concepts and healing: new approaches to knowledge and
practice in premodern medical texts and traditions; 1 Distinctive issues in
the history of medicine in antiquity; 2 How to read a recipe? Working
backwards from the prescription to the complaint; 3 Experiencing the dead
in ancient Egyptian healing texts; PART II Disease classifications in
premodern medical texts and traditions from the Near East, Mediterranean
and East Asia; 4 Types of diagnoses in Papyrus Ebers and Smith; 5 Ancient
Egyptian prescriptions for the back and abdomen and their Mesopotamian and
Mediterranean counterparts; 6 Disease concepts and classifications in
ancient Mesopotamian medicine; 7 Classification of illnesses in the
Hippocratic Corpus; 8 The delicacy of the rabbinic asthenes: sickness,
weakness or self-indulgence?; 9 The Paradise of Wisdom: streams of
tradition in the first medical encyclopaedia in Arabic; 10 The Tree of
Nosology in Tibetan medicine; PART III Mental illness in ancient medical
systems; 11 Disturbing disorders: reconsidering the problem of 'mental
diseases' in ancient Mesopotamia; 12 Classification, explanation and
experience: mental disorder in Graeco-Roman antiquity