Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice

Markham J. Geller

Wiley, Mar 16, 2010 - History - 240 pages

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 scholarsAttempts to reconcile the ways in which medicine and magic were relatedAssigns authorship to various types of medical literature that were previously considered anonymousRejects the approach of.

About the author

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 Utukkū Lemnūtu Incantations (2007) and co-editor of Disease in Babylonia (2007) and Imagining Creation (2008).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice; Ancient Cultures
• Author: Markham J. Geller
• Publisher: Wiley, 2010
• ISBN: 1444320009, 9781444320008
• Length: 240 pages
• Subjects: History / Ancient / General