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Advances In Mesopotamian Medicine From Hammurabi To Hippocrates
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Book Synopsis Advances in Mesopotamian Medicine from Hammurabi to Hippocrates by : Annie Attia
Download or read book Advances in Mesopotamian Medicine from Hammurabi to Hippocrates written by Annie Attia and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-09-24 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, which originated with a conference at the Collège de France, comprises articles on Babylonian and Assyrian medicine.
Book Synopsis Advances in Mesopotamian Medicine from Hammurabi to Hippocrates by : Annie Attia
Download or read book Advances in Mesopotamian Medicine from Hammurabi to Hippocrates written by Annie Attia and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, which originated with a conference at the Coll ge de France, comprises contributions by many of the leading researchers in Babylonian and Assyrian medicine. A wealth of topics are studied, including medical lexicography, prosopography, and technology, economic aspects of healing, and Mesopotamian influence on Greece. First-time editions of cuneiform medical tablets are presented. The volume will interest scholars in many branches of Assyriology, and also historians of Greek medicine. Contributors: Barbara B ck, Paul Demont, Jean-Marie Durand, Jeanette C. Fincke, Markham J. Geller, Nils. P. Hee el, Marten Stol, Martin Worthington
Book Synopsis Sourcebook for Ancient Mesopotamian Medicine by : JoAnn Scurlock
Download or read book Sourcebook for Ancient Mesopotamian Medicine written by JoAnn Scurlock and published by Society of Biblical Lit. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" html meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="content-type" body An introductory guide for scholars and students of the ancient Near East and the history of medicine In this collection JoAnn Scurlock assembles and translates medical texts that provided instructions for ancient doctors and pharmacists. Scurlock unpacks the difficult, technical vocabulary that describes signs and symptoms as well as procedures and plants used in treatments. This fascinating material shines light on the development of medicine in the ancient Near East, yet these tablets were essentially inaccessible to anyone without an expertise in cuneiform. Scurlock’s work fills this gap by providing a key resource for teaching and research. Features: Accessible translations and transliterations for both specialists and non-specialists Texts include a range of historical periods and regions Therapeutic, pharmacological, and diagnostic texts
Book Synopsis Ancient Babylonian Medicine by : Markham J. Geller
Download or read book Ancient Babylonian Medicine written by Markham J. Geller and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Book Synopsis Mesopotamian Medicine and Magic by : Strahil V. Panayotov
Download or read book Mesopotamian Medicine and Magic written by Strahil V. Panayotov and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-10-22 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mesopotamian Medicine and Magic. Studies in Honour of Markham J. Geller offers 34 brand-new text editions and analytical studies concerned with diverse healing traditions and practices in Ancient Western Asia.
Book Synopsis Ancient Medicine by : Laura M. Zucconi
Download or read book Ancient Medicine written by Laura M. Zucconi and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book by Laura Zucconi is an accessible introductory text to the practice and theory of medicine in the ancient world. In contrast to other works that focus heavily on Greece and Rome, Zucconi’s Ancient Medicine covers a broader geographical and chronological range. The world of medicine in antiquity consisted of a lot more than Hippocrates and Galen. Zucconi applies historical and anthropological methods to examine the medical cultures of not only Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome but also the Levant, the Anatolian Peninsula, and the Iranian Plateau. Devoting special attention to the fundamental relationship between medicine and theology, Zucconi’s one-volume introduction brings the physicians, patients, procedures, medicines, and ideas of the past to light.
Book Synopsis Mesopotamian Commentaries on the Diagnostic Handbook Sa-gig by : John Z Wee
Download or read book Mesopotamian Commentaries on the Diagnostic Handbook Sa-gig written by John Z Wee and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mesopotamian Commentaries on the Diagnostic Handbook Sa-gig includes a cuneiform edition, English translation, and notes on medical lexicography for thirty Sa-gig commentary tablets and fragments, and represents a companion volume to Knowledge and Rhetoric in Medical Commentary (Brill, 2019).
Book Synopsis The Comparable Body - Analogy and Metaphor in Ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman Medicine by : John Z Wee
Download or read book The Comparable Body - Analogy and Metaphor in Ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman Medicine written by John Z Wee and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-11-13 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Mesopotamian Eye Disease Texts by : Markham J. Geller
Download or read book Mesopotamian Eye Disease Texts written by Markham J. Geller and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is to date no comprehensive treatment of eye disease texts from ancient Mesopotamia, and no English translation of this material is available. This volume is the first complete edition and commentary on Mesopotamian medicine from Nineveh dealing with diseases of the eye. This ancient work, languishing in British Museum archives since the 19th century, is preserved on several large cuneiform manuscripts from the royal library of Ashurbanipal, from the 7th century BC. The longest surviving ancient work on diseased eyes, the text predates by several centuries corresponding Hippocratic treatises. The Nineveh series represents a systematic array of eye symptoms and therapies, also showing commonalities with Egyptian and Greco-Roman medicine. Since scholars of Near Eastern civilizations and ancient and general historians of medicine will need to be familiar with this material, the volume makes this aspect of Babylonian medicine fully accessible to both specialists and non-specialists, with all texts being fully translated into English.
Book Synopsis The History of Medicine, As Written by Its Founders, Volume 1 by : Luis H. Toledo-Pereyra
Download or read book The History of Medicine, As Written by Its Founders, Volume 1 written by Luis H. Toledo-Pereyra and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-05 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The History of Medicine, As Written by Its Founders, Volume 1: From the Hammurabi Code to the Canon of Medicine presents a thoughtful overview of the original writings of those considered to be the Fathers of Medicine. The selections encourage readers to reach back through time and examine the views of Hammurabi, Hippocrates, Galen of Pergamon, and others. The works featured in this text effectively represent the original authors, and convey their unique contributions to medical knowledge. By reflecting on the words of these creators of the field of medicine, today's readers gain insight into how medicine was, and can be, advanced. Each chapter of The History of Medicine begins with excerpts of the work under discussion. Significant highlights of the piece are noted to enhance understanding. The selections cover over a thousand years of writing on medicine. Beginning with a detailed examination of The Hammurabi Code, the book moves onto Mesopotamian medicine, surgery and medicine in Egyptian times, and medical practice in the early Common Era. It concludes with Avicenna of Afshana and the Canon of Medicine. This examination of the founding of medicine as we know it today provides readers with an excellent opportunity to more fully understand contemporary healthcare. The History of Medicine provides a sound, thoughtful survey that will benefit medical students, and those studying medical history. Luis Horacio Toledo-Pereyra is a professor of surgery at Michigan State University, Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies. He is also an adjunct professor of history at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he has taught the history of medicine to college students for 21 years.
Book Synopsis Demons and Illness from Antiquity to the Early-Modern Period by : Siam Bhayro
Download or read book Demons and Illness from Antiquity to the Early-Modern Period written by Siam Bhayro and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-02-06 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demons and Illness from Antiquity to the Early-Modern Period explores the relationship between demons and illness from the ancient world to the early modern period. Its twenty chapters range from Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt to seventeenth-century England and Spain, and include studies of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Book Synopsis The Cosmological Doctors of Classical Greece by : David H. Camden
Download or read book The Cosmological Doctors of Classical Greece written by David H. Camden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-11 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did some doctors in Classical Greece feel compelled to study the universe as a whole? How could cosmological principles be employed in clinical practice? This book explores the works of the cosmological doctors, such as On Breaths, On Flesh, and On Regimen, and argues that they form part of a much broader reorganization of medical knowledge in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. These healers used cosmological principles as a supplement to, rather than a replacement of, more traditional approaches to health and disease, creating theories about the cosmos whose obscurities can best be understood as the products of medical thinking. Through fresh readings of many ancient sources, the book revises customary views of the intersections between medicine and cosmology in Classical Greece and advances our understanding of one of the most remarkable periods in the history of ancient thought.
Book Synopsis Systems of Classification in Premodern Medical Cultures by : Ulrike Steinert
Download or read book Systems of Classification in Premodern Medical Cultures written by Ulrike Steinert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Systems of Classification in Premodern Medical Cultures puts historical disease concepts in cross-cultural perspective, investigating perceptions, constructions and experiences of health and illness from antiquity to the seventeenth century. Focusing on the systematisation and classification of illness in its multiple forms, manifestations and causes, this volume examines case studies ranging from popular concepts of illness through to specialist discourses on it. Using philological, historical and anthropological approaches, the contributions cover perspectives across time from East Asian, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cultures, spanning ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome to Tibet and China. They aim to capture the multiplicity of disease concepts and medical traditions within specific societies, and to investigate the historical dynamics of stability and change linked to such concepts. Providing useful material for comparative research, the volume is a key resource for researchers studying the cultural conceptualisation of illness, including anthropologists, historians and classicists, among others.
Book Synopsis Knowledge and Rhetoric in Medical Commentary by : John Z Wee
Download or read book Knowledge and Rhetoric in Medical Commentary written by John Z Wee and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowledge and Rhetoric in Medical Commentary explores the dynamic between scholastic rhetoric and medical knowledge in ancient commentaries on a Mesopotamian Diagnostic Handbook, whose atypical language and ideas were harmonized with conventional ways of perceiving and describing the sick body.
Book Synopsis The Loss of Male Sexual Desire in Ancient Mesopotamia by : Gioele Zisa
Download or read book The Loss of Male Sexual Desire in Ancient Mesopotamia written by Gioele Zisa and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After more than fifty years since the last publication, the cuneiform texts relating to the treatment of the loss of male sexual desire and vigor in Mesopotamia are collected in this volume. The aim of the book is to present Mesopotamian medical tradition regarding the so-called nīš libbi therapies. šà-zi-ga in Sumerian, nīš libbi in Akkadian, lit. "raising of the 'heart'", is the expression used to indicate a group of texts intended to recover the male sexual desire. This medical tradition is preserved from the Middle Babylonian period to the Achaemenid one. This broad range testifies to the importance of the transmission of this material throughout Mesopotamian history. The book provides the edition of this textual corpus and analyzes it in the light of new knowledge on ancient Near Eastern medicine. Moreover, this volume aims to show how theories and methodologies of Cultural Anthropology, Ethnopsychiatry and Gender Studies are useful for understanding the Mesopotamian medical system. This edition is an important tool for understanding Mesopotamian medical knowledge for Assyriologist, however since the texts have been translated and discussed using the anthropological and gender perspectives they are accessible also to scholars of other research fields, such as History of Medicine, Sexuality and Gender.
Book Synopsis Current Issues in General Internal Medicine by : Akif Doğantekin
Download or read book Current Issues in General Internal Medicine written by Akif Doğantekin and published by Livre de Lyon. This book was released on 2023-03-25 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current Issues in General Internal Medicine
Book Synopsis Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals by : Tzvi Abusch
Download or read book Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals written by Tzvi Abusch and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the most important sources for understanding the cultures and systems of thought of ancient Mesopotamia is a large body of magical and medical texts written in the Sumerian and Akkadian languages. An especially significant branch of this literature centers upon witchcraft. Mesopotamian anti-witchcraft rituals and incantations attribute ill-health and misfortune to the magic machinations of witches and prescribe ceremonies, devices, and treatments for dispelling witchcraft, destroying the witch, and protecting and curing the patient. The Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals aims to present a reconstruction of this body of texts; it provides critical editions of the relevant rituals and prescriptions based on the study of the cuneiform tablets and fragments recovered from the libraries of ancient Mesopotamia.
