Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice

Markham J. Geller

John Wiley & Sons, 21/07/2015 - 240 páginas

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

Índice

• Medicine as Science: 11
• Who Did What to Whom?: 43
• The Politics of Medicine: 56
• Medicine as Literature: 89
• Medicine and Philosophy: 118
• Uruk Medical Commentaries: 141
• Medicine and Magic as Independent Approaches to Healing: 161
• Notes: 177
• References: 202
• Selective Index of Akkadian and Greek Words: 217

Acerca do autor

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).

Informação bibliográfica

• Título: Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice; Ancient Cultures
• Autor: Markham J. Geller
• Editora: John Wiley & Sons, 2015
• ISBN: 1119062543, 9781119062547
• Número de páginas: 240 páginas