The Comparable Body - Analogy and Metaphor in Ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman Medicine

Herausgeber: Z. Wee, John

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Produktbeschreibung

The Comparable Body - Analogy and Metaphor in Ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman Medicine explores how analogy and metaphor illuminate and shape conceptions about the human body and disease, through 11 case studies from ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman medicine.

Produktdetails

• Studies in Ancient Medicine Nr.49
• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 460
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 778g
• ISBN-13: 9789004356764
• ISBN-10: 9004356762
• Artikelnr.: 48966187

Autorenporträt

John Z. Wee, Ph.D. (2012), Yale University, is Assistant Professor of Assyriology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of books and articles on medicine and astronomy in Mesopotamian and Greco-Roman antiquity, including Knowledge and Rhetoric in Medical Commentary (Brill, 2018). Contributors are: M. Erica Couto-Ferreira, Lesley Dean-Jones, Janet Downie, Brooke Holmes, J. Cale Johnson, Paul T. Keyser, Rune Nyord, Strahil Valentinov Panayotov, Courtney Ann Roby, Ulrike Steinert, John Z. Wee